• prole@sh.itjust.works
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    Unless the entire goal is to make the population too fucking ignorant to understand what he’s taking from them.

    Seems successful to me.

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        If this were reddit, we’d have people replying to tell you that that never happened, and that the Republicans are, “The Party of Lincoln”™

        *This comment is sponsored in part by: the 2024 Lincoln Navigator. Lincoln. What a luxury car should be.

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          In my state’s sub, you’d have the (Dixie)*crats joining them.

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            Yeah

            When you take the parties away and just think about who did and didn’t support the Civil Rights Act of 1957 (or 1964, Voting Rights Act, etc., it becomes clear who’s on which side.

            I was alive when Strom Thurmond died. I remember it. That dude was a hardcore GOP Republican until the day he died. The openly racist man who filibustered against the Civil Rights Act of 1957, and literally changed his party affiliation based on where each one stood on whether or not black people should be seen as people.

            We all know what party he chose, and it doesn’t sound like Lincoln’s values to me.

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              Tbf Lincoln opined that if continuing slavery were to spare the Union, he would be fully onboard.

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                Lincoln was a complicated man, and politics is complicated…

                But yeah, by today’s standards he was probably still pretty shitty.

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        Supposedly the Bible that he had purported to have turned to during his cancer fight was found in its original packaging, untouched.