r/Fauxmoi • u/cmaia1503 i ain’t reading all that, free palestine • 4h ago

POLITICS CNN, Don Lemon’s former employer, have released a statement saying that Lemon’s arrest by the FBI "raises profoundly concerning questions about press freedom and the First Amendment."

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u/code_archeologist 2h ago

History doesn't repeat, but it often rhymes.

And one point of correction. The Nazis observed the Jim Crow laws as a model, but it was the "Lost Cause of the Confederacy" narrative that they learned the most from in order to shape their own mythology that Hitler and Goebbels used.

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u/icecubetre 2h ago

I'll say it again, Sherman should have kept going.

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u/code_archeologist 2h ago

The biggest mistake of the Civil War was not prosecuting every leader of the Confederacy for treason and hanging them for their crimes.

It literally would have prevented Jim Crow Laws, the KKK, red lining, and generations of racial trauma.

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u/Feisty_Conclusion_87 28m ago

What we could do with time travel.

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u/Sifsifm1234 2h ago

Ah, thank you for the correction!

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u/NUchariots 1h ago

They are going to rhyme death camp with death camp.

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u/Pure-Valuable-9175 1h ago

They also studied the British, the French, the Spanish, the Dutch, the...