The party of Lincoln has been going through some really weird shit for the last few generations, that’s for sure.
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That’s because it was taken over by the Dixiecrats in the seventies-to-eighties. Today’s GOP would cheer John Wilkes Booth.
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It started earlier than that. The Dixiecrat standard-bearer Strom Thurmond switched to the Republican party in 1964.
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Well, bronze scrap is selling at an all-time high, just where in the Shenandoah is this statue ending up?
/s
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Like the one in Baltimore, put up in 1948 in a city that was never part of the Confederacy. (They took it down after Charlottesville.)
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Lets remove the bones of the traitors next.
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Looks like the judge is a straight shooter. He’s basically warned the plaintiffs with FAFO should he determine their claims about disturbing grave sites (which seems to be the bad-faith basis of their complaint) to be exaggerated.
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docket is here
though only one document is free, and it predates this injunction.
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impede the Memorial’s eligibility for listing on the National Register of Historic Places
That sounds like a real reach. Next, maybe they’ll try squatters rights due adverse possession? 
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Raise those claims now or forever hold your peace…
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That Wikipedia article looks fos to me. ", the nation’s first constitution, in 1862. " They weren’t a nation, because they had not suceeded in seceeding. They were just a racist breakaway area.
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Well, New Market is as fascist as a small town can be. So, yeah, i agree. It’s a fitting landing spot. Honestly, there are more Confederate battle flags than US flags in that town.
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Seriously? This is a justification given for keeping the monument in place? From the linked article:
Generally, he said the memorial promotes reconciliation between North and South, and removing it erodes that reconciliation.
Promotes reconciliation between North and South? For a war that ended nearly 160 years ago? I think any reconciliation that was going to happen has already happened.
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The losers are still trying to dictate the terms of their defeat.
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Perhaps the sculptor was inspired by France’s traditional artistic depictions of the ‘spirit’ of the French Revolution… not sensing the irony nor the strong possibility that, given half a chance, a French revolutionary would have shat directly into the open mouth of a Confederate general or two.
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… President Ulysses Grant expressed no objections
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