• snooggums@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    “Buy muh Southern Pride!”

    “What about the south are you proud of that involves the battle flag of the side that wanted to keep slavery?”

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      1 year ago

      The flag for a nation that lasted less than 5 years. Bill Clinton’s presidency was a longer piece of Southern heritage than that.

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      I was proud of being a punker in 1988. That phase lasted longer than the Civil War.

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      I’ve lived in Minnesota my whole life. Growing up, there was some religiously homeschooled dumb ass serving in the mn national guard who said that the Virginia battle flag was heritage. The last time I talked to him, I told him that the only heritage for us involving that flag is in the MN historical society archives.

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        Damn, you found a Minnesotan who’s enough of a loser to want to give up the flag? I thought that was the one issue that united the Right and Left in that state.