• Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world
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    10 days ago

    Not surprising. Canada has a legacy of sheltering shitbirds, so they’ve been around a while. Canada took in the Confederate leaders after the civil war. Jefferson Davis was allowed to live his life in comfort in Toronto after he betrayed his country. Canada along with Britain even aided the Confederacy by providing them with a fleet and supplies.

    If you go to Southern Ontario, you find plantation style homes that were built by the Confederates after they came here.

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      10 days ago

      I mean, didn’t them States have and still have the right to cecede? I thought the whole idea of the USA was that it was a commonwealth of states that had the freedom to leave any time.

      So how did Jeffers D betray his country? I’m not able to check wikipedia right now, but may I trouble you to clarify?