• GrayoxOP
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    1 year ago

    What is this in reference to, totally in the dark lol

    • Zoboomafoo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Back in thr US Civil War 160 years ago, the loyalist side was called “The Union”. So people are jokingly pretending your meme was about Union victories there

      • SnipingNinja@slrpnk.net
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        1 year ago

        That was honestly what I read it as, first and only then it clicked that they were of course talking about the recent union victories

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        1 year ago

        Oh shit, totally missed that, thats absolutely hilariously awesome. Didn’t realize I was accidentally Sherman Posting.