• PuppyOSAndCoffee@lemmy.ml
      6·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • shadowspirit@lemmy.world
    16·
    1 year ago

    The entire discussion around " small town" is bs

    I’m from a small town of 4,000 people in Northeast Texas and …in the late 90s…

    Had to finish high school out of church because a kid literally burned down the school. He got expelled and on his way out the door he said I’m going to burn this m*********** to the ground and he did.

    Person I went to school with got strung out on meth and decided to murder three gas station attendants.

    So yeah the entire thing is stupid. As if protest and crime are new concepts due to a new world order brought about by liberalism.

    These are serious issues no doubt but when I see all the memes about this song in particular all I can think about, " The sky is falling Chicken Little" or “if these kids could read they’d be angry” or “it’s funny until it happens to me”