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(4,128 posts)How awful that it even needs to be addressed.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)The Marine Corps finally decided to ban a dog-whistle symbol of racism after 155 years. Congratulations to that general, but I think all his predecessors should drop and give me 50.
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)brewens
(13,622 posts)raising about this?
Flaleftist
(3,473 posts)But this must came out and I don't frequent right-wing sites or have many of them on my social media accounts. I suppose one person saying something on Fox or hate-wing radio could trigger a response from Trump.
SnowCritter
(810 posts)You should witness the wailing and gnashing of teeth that is being exhibited in those groups. There are a few liberals like me in the groups, but most are brainwashed crayon eaters.
TrollBuster9090
(5,955 posts)before deploying that particular weapon of mass distraction.
This asshole has a talent for only one thing. The ability to sense when it's exactly the right time to shove a stick of dynamite into a septic tank, and cause raining shit storm to distract from his own incompetence and criminal behavior.
LonePirate
(13,431 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)Why were they allowed to do it in the first place?
Roy Rolling
(6,936 posts)Doesnt it? Posting flags of formerly-defeated traitors?
BigmanPigman
(51,630 posts)soldierant
(6,927 posts)if they took an oath of allegiance, and everyone wanted to let bygones be bygones, and so there was never a period when they were truly seen as traitors rather than brothers. And now that is catching up to us - with the realization that we are a nation roughly half-filled with traitors.
onetexan
(13,061 posts)It's been 155 years since the civil war ended. One would think given so much time has passed and so many generations have come and gone, that we as a nation would have healed by now. Apparently not.
bobbieinok
(12,858 posts)Cognitive_Resonance
(1,546 posts)Response to Cognitive_Resonance (Reply #48)
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juxtaposed
(2,778 posts)2naSalit
(86,798 posts)The Confederate flag is a symbol of treason against the United States.
Period.
tecelote
(5,122 posts)White.
BComplex
(8,066 posts)and people hang the flags on their barns and front doors.
I've never understood why they are so proud to feature a loser decoration. It was the white flag that really counted in that incursion. Republicans, every one of them.
AleksS
(1,665 posts)Ive said it before: no army in the world ever killed as many American military men and women as the confederacy. Its disgusting that symbols of those traitors were ever allowed on military bases.
hibbing
(10,109 posts)This will infuriate the deplorables.
Peace
Augiedog
(2,548 posts)iluvtennis
(19,875 posts)erlewyne
(1,115 posts)The Navy was always Union. There was never a Confederate Navy
therefore there were never Confederate Marines.
Daddy J
(11 posts)The Confederate States Navy was established by the Confederate Congress in February 1861. The following month they established the Confederate States Marine Corps. Please see Wikipedia & many other sources.
paleotn
(17,985 posts)Nor could they deal with Farragut or Porter. They existed, granted, but in the grand scheme had little to show for it.
Wednesdays
(17,412 posts)paleotn
(17,985 posts)and they CSA never could break that blockade. Verses the Army, a larger percentage of navel officers were from northern states and stayed loyal. And even those who weren't, like Farragut, stayed loyal.
sarge43
(28,945 posts)It was the first navy to have an ironclad ship of the line - The Merrimack.
JHB
(37,162 posts)The frigate USS Merrimack had been building in naval shipyard in Virginia when it seceded. At that point, it and other ships were scuttled.
The scuttled Merrimack had enough left intact (including its steam engines) that the CS Navy raised it and extensively altered its design to be rebuilt as an ironclad, predictably named the CSS Virginia.
I've wondered why a Confederate ship was always named after a river in NH.
Well, history is written by the victors
StarryNite
(9,460 posts)NewJeffCT
(56,829 posts)probably coming any day now
Trump to fire Marine Corps Commandant...
MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)Yeah, I'm laughing - but, DAMN, with THAT nut-job, it could happen!
calimary
(81,501 posts)mountain grammy
(26,655 posts)This is a new Commandant installed last July. Hope he holds up. This is a good start.
Perseus
(4,341 posts)At last we see some valor, some courage from the military. I want to see more of that.
MAMMAG8R
(6 posts)Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)I knew he meant business. This is significant.
Sophiegirl
(2,338 posts)Child molesting rapist.
Historic NY
(37,453 posts)of April 1865. Robert E Lee signed it and said case the colors and go home. Maybe the useless Justice Dept. team looking to cancel US Citizenship should look at these morons. I wonder just how many of their daddies didn't signed an Ironclad oath of allegiance.
wendyb-NC
(3,330 posts)Dave in VA
(2,039 posts)I've always said that these fools who worship these traitors statues are the same people who will complain that the kids sports teams give out a participation trophy.
BadGimp
(4,019 posts)MyOwnPeace
(16,938 posts)another agency provide some one to help fill out this ream of paperwork (so oppressive - I'm being denied my rights to bitch!)?
Besides, way too many big works in there.
Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)Poiuyt
(18,130 posts)There were a couple of HUGE Confederate flags flying from poles along the major highway. They looked too big to be in a residence.
trof
(54,256 posts)Well done.
Aussie105
(5,436 posts)But it belongs in museums, alongside photos of African-Americans working as slaves, as a reminder of a bygone time with values we no longer approve of.
If you use it on your bumper, as a mark that you approve of those historic values, or wish to identify yourself to others with equal personal values, you are doing it wrong. Be a rebel in some other way.
Equivalent of driving around in Germany in a VW with a swastika sticker on the rear bumper.
localroger
(3,631 posts)But then, they don't have a First Amendment.
Karadeniz
(22,574 posts)calimary
(81,501 posts)Tikki
(14,559 posts)base where my husband was stationed.
Tikki
Ferrets are Cool
(21,110 posts)SunSeeker
(51,719 posts)pansypoo53219
(20,997 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Ziggysmom
(3,414 posts)Divide and Conquer,
stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Faux pas
(14,690 posts)ramen
(791 posts)pandr32
(11,617 posts)lambchopp59
(2,809 posts)jmowreader
(50,562 posts)Possession of a Confederate flag tattoo is grounds for separation from the Marine Corps.
Do the same thing they did with skinhead tattoos after James Burmeister murdered two black people: Cover em up or have em lasered off, they have no place in our military.