• Rice_Daddy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I learned a bit about how Tennessee legislature works after the expulsion last year. It’s frighteningly undemocratic, and it’s scary to think that it’s gotten even more undemocratic since then. Such a shame, I enjoyed my visit to Nashville a lot.

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      8 months ago

      Same here on all accounts. We have been to Nashville a few times for concerts and we really don’t like the fact that now we can’t go back. We don’t want to support the state. We still have cups we took home from the peg leg porker.

  • NotAFuckingBot@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Losers love losing. Deniers love denying. Traitors love treason. The GOP loves Trump’s shit-crusted cock, but denies being his bottom.

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      8 months ago

      Underage cousins*

      *FTFY. Don’t forget Republicans in a bunch of states have been fighting minimum marriage age laws on top of everything else.

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      8 months ago

      Tennesseean here, this is absolutely the case. I wish there was more I could do to welcome marginalized people, but the best advice I have is to get out of here as soon as possible because things are going to get worse before they get better.

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        8 months ago

        I came to say the same thing.

        But I’ll say this- the nazis in Nashville the other week were only able to escape unscathed because we didn’t know they were there.

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    8 months ago

    I went to grade school in Mississippi, (Air Force brat, 1970’s) and here are some fun facts:

    • The day started with the class reciting the Pledge of Allegiance and then singing “Dixie.”
    • Every classroom had a paddle hanging near the blackboard. The principle and many of the teachers also had a paddle handing off of their belt.
    • The "That’s a Paddlin’ " bit on the Simpsons was a 100% accurate representation of my first day in school
    • The Mississippi schools were about 6 months ahead of the Utah schools I came from and they made me do a lot of the homework assigned before I got there.
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    8 months ago

    One is unconstitutional to ban, while the other is treason.

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        8 months ago

        Those 4 years that they were treasonous to get rid of state rights to ban slavery is very important to their state history.

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    8 months ago

    Let’s proudly expose our slavery heritage while banning a symbol of individual freedom and diversity.

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    8 months ago

    Nashville has had a pride festival for the past thirty five years. They were a member of the confederacy for almost exactly five years.

    BuT iTs our hiSTorY!!!

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    8 months ago

    That’s what we get for giving the Confederates Military burials instead of an unmarked mass graves for their murderous treachery in the name of slavery.

    Mercy was a mistake.

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      8 months ago

      Fuck Andrew Johnson.

      “Johnson embarked on a policy designed to restore the former Confederate states to civil government with maximum speed and a minimum disturbance of Southern institutions beyond the abolition of slavery itself,” writes historian Michael Les Benedict. “His policy placed former rebels in political control of nearly every Southern state and left Southern blacks to the mercies of the men who had fought so desperately to keep them in bondage.”