this post was submitted on 27 Feb 2026
705 points (99.0% liked)

ShermanPosting

252 readers
185 users here now

Where we meme (joking in tone and detail, serious in sentiment) about General Sherman, the Civil War, and how the secesh traitors had it coming.

RULES

  1. No bigotry. The Union, or at least the part of the Union WE support, fought AGAINST that shite. We are anti-racist, anti-sexist, anti-homophobic, anti-transphobic, and in general anti-bigot here, even if not all the lads in Union blue uniforms were.

  2. No Confederate sympathizing. Anti-democratic racist slaver traitors don't deserve shit.

  3. Follow all Piefed.social rules

founded 7 months ago
MODERATORS
PugJesus@piefed.social
705
I mean... she's right. (media.piefed.social)
submitted 2 days ago by PugJesus@piefed.social to c/shermanposting@piefed.social
46 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 2 points 8 hours ago

And you believe all of those things were not just possible but could have been sustained?

Yes, absolutely.

Do you think they could have accomplished all of that without turning the Reconstruction into a generational occupation of the South?

... what the fuck do you think Reconstruction was?

And you think it would have been economically viable

Yes, absolutely. Sharecropping is not actually great for the economy, and the South would remain economically marginal to the USA for decades afterwards.

and that the necessary long-term voter commitment would be there?

Yes. The only fucking reason Reconstruction ended in the first fucking place was a deal between the Democrats and Republicans over a disputed election.

"Hannibal Hamlin is VP when Lincoln is assassinated" is potentially all it would fucking take to extend Reconstruction another 5-10 years, and with greater results in the first 11 years too, for that matter.