• SplashJackson
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    9 days ago

    Lol they called those goofy Confeds traitors because they wanted to separate from the main country? Isn’t that how the United States got founded in the first place?

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      9 days ago

      That’s literally what treason is, guy. When American Revolutionaries were called traitors to the British Crown, they absolutely were. It’s just that the British Crown wasn’t any sort of entity worth being loyal to.

      The reason why ‘traitor’ has retained power in disputes with Neoconfederates is because the stupid cunts claim to be “Real southerm american patriots”

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        9 days ago

        That’s what I’m getting at, I just couldn’t put both the opening and conclusion in one post because it wouldn’t be very conversational of me. I’m actually agreeing witchu