#the confederacy lost

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[tommy-288]

One of the biggest things I hate about the Lost Cause Myth (the whitewashing is horrible) but also the name?? Like if it was such a Lost Cause why did you continue fighting? Or even attack Fort Sumter? Like….

“Men, we’re going to lose this war, and the south will suffer for years. It will be horrible, violent, and the casualties will be incomprehensible. But let’s go on ahead and declare war anyways…”

[fangomango]

I don't think you're weird at all for liking Metal Family. I love it sooo much! I seriously can't wait for it to be updated

*rolls around on the ground* I RAMBLED OOPSIES

Ok so, metal family..(it's been like...more then a year since my last post it's overdue)

I don't hate metal family. I loved it, I loved my time in the fandom. I don't think anyone is weird for liking it (unless you're one of those incesty fans...then you're weird). I have many mutuals who love the show and I love all of my mutals.

Hell I used to be a metal family blog

Point is, I loved the show and no one is weird for liking it

BUUUUUUT

I'm probably never gonna touch that show again

I KINDA FUCKED UP THAT

If you don't know about that video I don't blame you (it's like a year old I'm probably the only one who thinks about it) it's...fairly simple. It's Vicky riding her motorcycle, acknowledging other riders. Most notably she salutes to a bike with the confederate flag.

That, that one gesture...kinda ruined metal family for me. I had mutuals leave the fandom and ditch the show (unclear if they rejoined, I stopped keeping tabs on them once I left the fandom (srry)), I had mutuals take a break from the show, I saw mutuals go through a Rollercoaster of shit because metal family was their show, that was their comfort and they LOVED metal family.

I felt honestly really guilty about all of that (seeing your first mutual delete all their posts and go radio silence for a while will do that😮‍����), it was just kinda stressful and not...really that good for me (tho thats not saying much, I'm a teenager, everything is stressful and bad)

The entire issue with that video is that...it's really a murky issue. Mf is a Russian show, the creators are Russian. The culture in the show and the fact the the creators are not American makes the gesture just...confusing. it brings up a good discussion of holding a creator accountable for something like that when it's possible the creators didn't know what the flag meant and that the confederacy was strictly an American thing and as mentioned the creators aren't American.

It's just brings up a good discussion and honestly I'm rambling to an empty room so...

Thank you anon for the ask 😁 I did ruin the mood so I'm sorry for that. I think I've said everything I wanted to say both back then and now. My peace is made with the show.

[victusinveritas]

[tomorrowusa]

RFK Jr. is taking the side of Confederate statue worshipers. He really doesn't like the removal of monuments to a treasonous and pro-slavery entity called the Confederate States of America.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. denounced the removal of hundreds of Confederate statues and other monuments across the United States after the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer in 2020. In a podcast interview that aired live on Friday from the Libertarian National Convention in Washington, Mr. Kennedy, an independent candidate for president, portrayed the removal of statues honoring the Confederacy as “destroying history,” echoing similar comments made by former President Donald J. Trump in support of the monuments. [ ... ] Statues and other monuments glorifying the Confederacy were erected — most at the height of the Jim Crow era — as part of a movement to advance the Lost Cause myth, which in various iterations depicted the Confederacy’s rebellion as a noble defense of Southern values or falsely asserted that the Civil War was fought over “states’ rights,” not slavery. Many of the monuments also distort history by portraying Black Americans as loyal to white Southerners in their enslavement.

This puts RFK Jr. on the same side as Donald Trump.

Trump equated their removal to “changing history” when he defended some participants of a violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in 2017, who had gathered to protect the statue of Lee that was later removed. Mr. Trump later resisted efforts to rename nine southern Army bases that had been named for treasonous Confederate generals who fought against the U.S. Army.

President Biden has taken the opposite view, saying that such monuments have no place in 21st century America. Biden is the only candidate who stands against traitorous racists.

As a candidate in 2020, President Biden supported the removal of Confederate statues, as well as the renaming of the Army bases, which was ultimately carried out during his administration.

By coincidence, today (May 29th) is the birthday of the late President John F. Kennedy. JFK would be ashamed of his idiotic anti-vax, pro-Confederate nephew.

In 1963 President Kennedy federalized the Alabama National Guard to assist in the integration of the University of Alabama – the last segregated state university in the US. Alabama's segregationist Gov. George Wallace physically stood in the door to block two black students but gave way when confronted by the federalized National Guard.

That evening, on 11 June 1963, the president addressed the country on the topic of civil rights. Here is how historians now view the events surrounding that day.

Gov. Wallace went on to run as a third party candidate in the 1968 presidential election. Of course he didn't win but his presence in the election helped to elect Richard Nixon who gave the US the Watergate scandal and the invasion of Cambodia.

RFK Jr. is a lot more in the tradition of George Wallace than John F. Kennedy. Don't be fooled by RFK Jr.'s family name; most of his siblings and cousins have denounced him and declared their support for the Biden-Harris ticket in 2024.

[thelaurenshippen]

Hello! I'm loving Breaker Whiskey, it's so beautiful and it's also making me better at Morse Code, lol. I've got a question about episode 60, though, what's the music that's mixed into the morse and static? It sounds like a very old recording, and I love that sort of thing. Thank you for sharing your shows with us!

ahhhh this makes me so happy!! I LOVE that it's getting people into Morse Code, that thrills me.

(some spoilers below about episode 60 of @breakerwhiskey, including additional explanation from me that you may or may not want)

yes, the music mixed into episode 60 IS an old recording! it's a song played on a phonograph - I use a service called Splice to get a lot of the sounds I've put in a bunch of my shows, and there's a pack that's all sounds from vintage audio devices. there's a few of those sounds mixed into episode 60 - a phonograph song, the sounds of wax cylinders being played, and a recording of Thomas Edison explaining the phonograph - all of them distorted to be mostly unrecognizable.

the song file itself is just called 'phonograph song' - I think a bunch of audio engineers just recorded whatever they could off the vintage resources they had - but as far as I was able to glean from the lyrics (they're not that much clearer even undistorted) it's an 1860s confederate rallying song, which I thought would be just about the worst possible thing that you could hear played at random over a radio frequency. I wanted the sounds all together to be menacing, and Whiskey has talked a lot about the myth-making of America vs. the cruel reality, so it felt on theme.

that said, the phonograph sounds were chosen mainly for the literal quality of the sound - that tactile, fuzzy wax static - rather than any true story importance. there are story-relevant sounds mixed in there, but I'm not going to tell you what they are or what they mean!

[thevalleyisjolly]

I’m definitely not saying that the old Star Wars Legends books were all good, and I’ll be the first to criticize them for all the interesting creative decisions and sometimes questionable writing quality, but there will always be a little part of me that’s salty about how they got almost completely discarded in favour of the Mouse’s new canon hegemony.  Was Legends really that good?  Eh, not really.  So often, it was a case of ‘Cool concept, completely dropped the ball on the execution.’  Are there a lot of good things about the new canon that we wouldn’t be able to have with Legends?  Absolutely.  Is it still a shitty thing to overwrite decades worth of creative effort and collaboration for the sake of corporate marketing?  Generally, yeah.

[isawthismeme]

[mezais]

Should I read warrior cats again from the start or should I read something meaningful and good for a change

[belle-keys]

I saw your post about the Confederacy in vampire media, and thought of TVD. For instance, they had Tyler wear a Confederacy uniform at the end of season 1 with Bonnie witnessing it and not saying anything. Also you mentioned that Damon was a Confederate soldier, although it was addressed in season 1 and season 7 that he didn't want to because he disagreed with what they stood for but was a part of it until he had the courage to stand up to his dad. Also Stefan describing being in the Confederacy as inspiring made me uncomfortable. I don't think he was as supportive of it as his father considering he defended Damon's decision to leave and his behavior later in the show, but I didn't like how it wasn't directly addressed later. Overall if the show was going to write about this time period it should've been written with much more sensitivity, especially since these are all major characters affiliated with this topic.

I mean, I don't really care that Damon didn't want to be a Confederate. In my post, I was focused on the fact that the show was founded on Confederate propaganda. Doesn't really matter if Damon "hated" being a Confederate. He was one, and he was depicted in uniform to boot. The show did not condemn or critically engage with the Confederacy through its narrative. It therefore adds to the Lost Cause mythology by making their male lead an "unwilling cavalier".

Sensitivity was missing, sure, but also critical engagement. And you can tell that was intentional, given the whole "Gone With the Wind" bit at the end of season 2.

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[lenbryant]

What a racist scumbag.

[notquite09thereyet]

Before I turned the sound up, this was the sound I imagined playing as I watched. It fits perfectly. 🤣🤣🤣

[progamerican]

RFK Jr. is Wrong about The Confederacy

By defending Confederate monuments, RFK Jr. is perpetuating the Lost Cause and white supremacy.

How RFK Jr. is perpetuating myths that perpetuate white supremacy and bad history Conor Kelly By Chris Pruitt – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=6506482 The issue of Confederate statues is once again in the news, this time thanks to independent presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. The notorious anti-vaccine advocate appeared on conservative…

[lightdancer1]

Notice that the Black Confederates here were officially allowed to exist on March 13th, 1865. Richmond fell April 3rd:

To reinforce the point of how little Black soldiers actually fought for the Confederacy or were considered acceptable to do so, the Confederacy decided in the end too little and too late to choose independence over slavery after all and approved the raising of Black soldiers...in March 1865, just under a month before the city fell in the wake of the Battle of Five Forks.

So it's worth noting that yes, there was an attempt to raise these troops....a month before the fall of Richmond and that none of the troops raised were very numerous, nor did they actually fight a battle on behalf of the cause and for entirely understandable reasons no Black people were rallying to a side that had long since lost the war when true emancipation marched with the bayonets of General Grant's army.