Checkmite
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That's the long and short of it.
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That's the long and short of it.
Checkmite
Skepticifimisticalationist
I think the same thing every time I drive by a house displaying a Contraitorate flag. There's a house not far from me which displays several on a small forest of individual flagpoles.
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I bet that household is just abuzz with interesting, highly enlightened discussion.
Checkmite
Skepticifimisticalationist
I would attempt to find out, but I'm afraid it would be a lost cause.
Howie Felterbush
Bow Tie Daddy
Those bonfires would put Guy Fawkes Night to shame.
ponderingturtle
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But how else are they supposed to show their hatred and contempt for being part of the US?
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Moon landing denial?
Spindrift
Time Person of the Year, 2006
Wrong, Martha freed them before her death.
12AX7
Banned
Here's one. A great way to show that it was about state's rights and nothing else!
A'isha
Miss Schoolteacher
There's also this billboard, on I-20 Westbound, just outside of Oxford, AL (about an hour's drive from where I live in Birmingham).
Foolmewunz
Grammar Resistance Leader, TLA Dictator
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Since you're a native- can you fill me in on what "truth" these folks think is getting ready to rise again?
Foolmewunz
Grammar Resistance Leader, TLA Dictator
Okay, I found CSA150 on Twitter. Is there some kind of illiterate cutesiness in mis-typing Southern as "Southron", or is this an organization run by an illiterate redneck.
I've never seen the mis-spelling used intentionally, but I found some sort of site called "Southron Thunder", so maybe it's a dog whistle? (Considering that the, er, "blogger" on Southron Thunder signs his news article as "John Wilkes Booth", I'm wondering if Aryan Nation or Stormfront followers have come across this.)
And to get back to the OP. It's apologia for the Confederacy and more in the continuing movement to honor not just the dead but to honor and respect the ideals of the Confederacy. It's the same as much of the revisionism being written out of Auburn... Let's put a glossy face on the war and make it sound like it was about something other than what it was about... our right to own other people. It's the same crap as the people who wanted to maintain Nathan Bedford Forrest's name on a high school in a mixed race neighborhood in Jacksonville, and the recent brouhaha over including a monument within a Florida battlefield park... to fallen black soldiers.
They're still fighting the war, and if given the opportunity would roll history back to that era. Hint to Southern States. You want to honor your heritage, pick something else other than those five years out of the three hundred and maybe we'll start to believe you that it's not all about the racism and hatred.
I've never seen the mis-spelling used intentionally, but I found some sort of site called "Southron Thunder", so maybe it's a dog whistle? (Considering that the, er, "blogger" on Southron Thunder signs his news article as "John Wilkes Booth", I'm wondering if Aryan Nation or Stormfront followers have come across this.)
And to get back to the OP. It's apologia for the Confederacy and more in the continuing movement to honor not just the dead but to honor and respect the ideals of the Confederacy. It's the same as much of the revisionism being written out of Auburn... Let's put a glossy face on the war and make it sound like it was about something other than what it was about... our right to own other people. It's the same crap as the people who wanted to maintain Nathan Bedford Forrest's name on a high school in a mixed race neighborhood in Jacksonville, and the recent brouhaha over including a monument within a Florida battlefield park... to fallen black soldiers.
They're still fighting the war, and if given the opportunity would roll history back to that era. Hint to Southern States. You want to honor your heritage, pick something else other than those five years out of the three hundred and maybe we'll start to believe you that it's not all about the racism and hatred.
Lowpro
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Ask 10 people here and you'll get 20 different answers. The South will rise again to combat whatever pisses them off. It's the mating call of the jackass.
It is in origin a Scottish expression referring to English people, or to the English language as spoken in England (as opposed to Scottish forms of that language). See the World English Dictionary:
This source also notes its later American usage. In Scotland the expression was certainly in use by the sixteenth century.
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Don't know, but now I have this image on my head of Sauron sporting a mullet and a wife-beater, fashioning the One Ring out of a can of Bud.
TragicMonkey
Poisoned Waffles
One Ring to rule y'all?
Unabogie
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Nominated.
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Okay, I found CSA150 on Twitter. Is there some kind of illiterate cutesiness in mis-typing Southern as "Southron", or is this an organization run by an illiterate redneck.
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The obscure term is meant to create an Otherness mentality for those who self-identify with it, so like a dog whistle word or secret handshake word but also an internal metaprogramming tool.
Okay, I found CSA150 on Twitter. Is there some kind of illiterate cutesiness in mis-typing Southern as "Southron", or is this an organization run by an illiterate redneck.
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The obscure term is meant to create an Otherness mentality for those who self-identify with it, so like a dog whistle word or secret handshake word but also an internal metaprogramming tool.
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Penultimate Amazing
Well, the Bergdahl thing is a perfect illustration of Rule One of ODS: Whatever Obama did, it's wrong. It matters not a bit that he did something that you were berating him for failing to do yesterday. As soon as he did it, it became wrong.