• Maturin@sh.itjust.works
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    Seriously? This whole thread (and arguably the meme itself) misidentifying Ulysses S. Grant as William T Sherman? We can do better than this y’all.

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    1 year ago

    Do we have a Shermanposting sublemmy yet?? cause I’m low on traitors tears and need to stock up

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    I’m in a town of 3600… People are super fucking poor and still work their asses off. None of them would give a fuck if you “try that” or w/e the fuck that guy is on about… They’d go on about their business because they are just surviving. They’d sure as fuck not give a shit about any sorta of vigilante justice. They’d say “that’s definitely not my problem”

    Pretty sure this dude is pandering to wannabees who probably have never actually spent any time in a small town in the US.

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      Remember he thought the war was wasteful.

      Because…what white man would live in the swamps of the Seminole, and the US Army lacked clear goals.

      shrug

      Sherman, was pro union and anti confederacy. It was that simple—to own slaves, or not, was not his concern.

      There is no glory in war; Sherman’s own words say it often…the ACW was the waste of poor young American men, dying in fields because wealthy plantation owners would have it so.

      This was the unforgivable sin in Sherman’s eyes, to inflame the passions of our youth, to no end.

      Why glorify Sherman? He slept, rode, and ate, as his soldiers did. To know the capability of his army, he did not separate himself, unlike his peers.

      He suffered ill health, mental breakdowns, familial loss, often on the verge of quitting — and yet, saw it to the end, despite the death and senseless carnage.

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      Nah, the war against the south the crimes against humanity that was manifest destiny are two completely different things.

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    Okay all I know about this song is that it seems that it’s pro redneck and subtly racist with strong suggestions of “I’m a fraud of the big city because scary”. Also I hear the Iowa governor quoted it.

    Anything else I’m missing?

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      Jason’s also from Macon, GA. Population 150,000. Small town country boy my arse. To quote Shooter Jennings:

      I get home from a long day, put on the radio Lookin’ for some country soul, but I don’t find it, no It’s a dirt road free for all, some old boys sayin’ they’re outlaws, They dress the part and they talk the talk You know they’ve been taught to walk the walk These boys think they’re tough like they been robbin’ banks Cause they name drop Johnny Cash and they name drop poor old Hank

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        And Jason Aldean was onstage during a shooting at one of his concerts, and do you know what Mr. “Try That In a Small Town” Big Britches did? Ran offstage and hid. Which like, I don’t blame the guy, but don’t release a song cosplaying as some big tough guy that will stand up to bad gunmen when there is literally evidence that you won’t.

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        lol, I’m from a town of 9000 people, and in my state that still wasn’t a “small town”. We had a pizza joint! People drove to our town because we had a pizza joint. Douche has no idea what it’s like being in a small town.

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            You had a walmart? Damn look at you and your fancy high falootin’ society over here.

            And no, no one ever got in fights in my town, there was a lot of tough toxic masculinity brovado, but everyone was too afraid to get in fights. No the real thing is what I alluded to, small towns like to say they’re nice but really everyone is gossiping behind everyone’s back because there’s nothing else to talk about.

            Did you hear so and so’s husband was at the store alone the other day? They’re going to be divorced in a week, guar-an-tee.