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Down Goes Silent Sam

But they have to show respect treasonous enslavers and the idiot snowflakes who revere them today!!!!
 
PhDeac said:
But they have to show respect treasonous enslavers and the idiot snowflakes who revere them today!!!!
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Yea put him in a museum like the other relics of dead civilizations people used to worship.
 
We're the only country I've ever heard of that celebrates traitors who took up arms against their nation and lost.
 
RJKarl said:
We're the only country I've ever heard of that celebrates traitors who took up arms against their nation and lost.
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Nah, that's not true.

UK has Guy Fawkes Day, for example and he was a domestic terrorist. There's a ton of similar examples around the world.
 
vadimivich said:
Nah, that's not true.

UK has Guy Fawkes Day, for example and he was a domestic terrorist. There's a ton of similar examples around the world.
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Haha, it's a bit more complicated than that, but agree with the general point.
 
Oliver Cromwell has a prominent statue right next to the Parliament building, and he had the head of the king chopped off. Civil Wars are messy.
 
sailordeac said:
Oliver Cromwell has a prominent statue right next to the Parliament building, and he had the head of the king chopped off. Civil Wars are messy.
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He was also buried with pomp in Westminster Abbey and then exhumed and posthumously executed like three years later. Shit is definitely complicated
 
sailordeac said:
Oliver Cromwell has a prominent statue right next to the Parliament building, and he had the head of the king chopped off. Civil Wars are messy.
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Cromwell tried to emigrate to the USA (Connecticut specifically) with other Puritans before his rise to power, but was blocked from leaving England. That didn't work out so well for poor Charles I.
 
Charles II seems like he was pretty cool, honestly. Liked the ladies, the finer things in life, science and the arts and could not possibly be bothered with what religion people followed (his parliament on the other hand ...).
 
England needed a practical king with worldly interests and few illusions like Charles II in 1660. The kingdom needed a respite from Puritan moralizing and overly ideological government. Unfortunately, Charles II left no legit heirs, and his brother James II was more than over the top for what most people in England wanted. An aggressive crypto-Catholic in England at that time. Reeeaally!
 
RJKarl said:
We're the only country I've ever heard of that celebrates traitors who took up arms against their nation and lost.
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It's a good thing our country wasn't founded by 'traitors' taking up arms against Great Britain...
 
Traitors who LOSE aren't celebrated. But keep celebrating people killing soldiers of the United States and fighting for slavery, it's a good look for you.
 
So if the Confederacy prevailed you would be perfectly fine celebrating traitors who WIN?
 
They were still traitors against the United States. But keep supporting slavery, bigotry and destroying the United States.
 
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