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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by mycorrhiza@lemmy.ml to c/politics@hexbear.net

no need to write an essay or anything

some libs and baby leftists are kinda baffled by the trump banter here and don't know what's serious and what's irony

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[-] Nagarjuna@hexbear.net 21 points 1 year ago

I see Lincoln as being a lot like Lenin, a problematic figure who ultimately oversaw an important and mostly liberatory project

[-] silent_water@hexbear.net 54 points 1 year ago

he hemmed and hawed too much over freeing the slaves. Grant's Reconstruction was more radical but obviously he still genocided native populations.

[-] WhatWouldKarlDo@lemmygrad.ml 50 points 1 year ago

Lincoln has just been whitewashed all to hell. He didn't free the slaves out of any moral reason. It was just a good piece of propaganda, and he was really just railroaded into it.

I would also like to point you to Lincoln's military service and the largest mass execution in US history. Their crime? Not starving to death. He's just as much of a genocidal scumbag as the rest of them.

[-] Frank@hexbear.net 18 points 1 year ago

I don't, I think he was just a monster, like the rest of them.

[-] Catradora_Stalinism@hexbear.net 10 points 1 year ago

lenin was one of the best people in human history

full stop

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