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somewhere out there a bulldog bit a black man, will suck when they can't have anything associated with the dog.
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Quoted: Do you find it normal to fly the Nazi Germany flag? I don't get this retarded argument. Nobody is saying suppress the history. They're just saying you're a fool for associating with the Confederacy by flying the flag as if that is some sort of conservative, romantic, freedom inspiring move on your part. Why would you want to allow the USMC to publicly display the flag of a beaten enemy in that way? Would you have a problem with a soldier of German heritage flying the Nazi flag because it's in his family history? What about the 1940s Japanese Rising Sun flag? How about a Lebanese Marine flying a Hezbollah flag? I mean, we need to be fair and equitable in the application of the rules, right? View Quote How about US veterans of Vietnam, and the rest of the solders there after? |
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Quoted: It's always the 504. Lots of messed up stuff. I was not aware of the 1995 events. I do remember the tattoo inspections; just don't remember the confederate flag being a "red flag." View Quote I came through 82nd REPO twice but dont recall anyone in-processing with me ever having anything questionable. Not sure what was exactly on the list........I know Bragg was the only place I ever went through tat checks though. |
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Quoted: We al know that “diversity “ is a one way street. As long as he bans other offensive images like the ANC flag, black panther flag, Che T-shirts and banners, Malcom X imagery, and other racist symbols, then he would be consistent—but he didn’t, did he? View Quote Of course not. I don’t how many ANC flags I saw in the enlisted barracks while I was in. Never a word and never will be. Saw a “Buy Black” tee shirt in the chow hall. Pointed it out to a dark green SNCO pulling duty. He said “I was just looking too deep into it.” |
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He just leveled up on the virtue signaling scale. First it was women in the ranks. Now confederate flags.
How can he work access to birth control and abortion into the Marines mission? Trying to help the guy out. |
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Quoted: The trouble is that the meaning of a lot of that stuff has evolved and changed and people often embrace confederate symbols as being fir independence and against a large government. Being from Michigan, I don’t care about the confederate stuff, but I recognize that culture evolves View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: I find it equally as funny a large portion of Arfcom will bend over backwards to support the racist democrat Confederacy, and in the next breath claim to be an ultra conservative The trouble is that the meaning of a lot of that stuff has evolved and changed and people often embrace confederate symbols as being fir independence and against a large government. Being from Michigan, I don’t care about the confederate stuff, but I recognize that culture evolves Don't forget to remind folks of a different time. It wasn't hate, John Deere just didn't make a tractor then. Same as all the screachers banging away on their iphones about how evil people used to be, never giving a second thought to how the object in there hands came into existence. |
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Quoted: I could see that if the entire point of the Confederacy wasn't to defend slavery. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: The trouble is that the meaning of a lot of that stuff has evolved and changed and people often embrace confederate symbols as being fir independence and against a large government. Being from Michigan, I don't care about the confederate stuff, but I recognize that culture evolves If your great great granddaddy had the fortitude, he could have just invented a tractor, would have solved that problem right quick. Ain't got to feed and water a tractor when it ain't working. Why didn't he do that? |
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Quoted: The confederate flag wasnt a real issue till Dylan Roof. At that point the libs decided that they were devoting lots of energy demonizing it, it was what they were going to take in place of guns, and, as they are wont to do, the conservative cuckhold contingent tucked their tail between their legs and gave the left what they wanted. View Quote And the flag quite being sold in stores, and I found someone to make me a nice quilt of one |
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On May 29, 1945, Able Company, Red Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, commanded by South Carolina native Capt Julius Dusenberg, approached to within 800 yards of Shuri Castle. The castle lay within the zone of the 77th Infantry Division, known as the Statue of Liberty Boys. However, GEN Ushijima’s rear guard had stalled the 77this advance. Impatient, MajGen del Valle ordered Capt Dusenberg to “take that damned place if you can. I’ll make the explanations.” Dusenberg radioed back, “Will do!” Dusenberg’s Marines stormed the stone fortress, quickly dispatching a detachment of Japanese soldiers who had remained behind. Once the casde had been taken, Dusenberg took off his hel- met and removed a flag he had been car- rying for just such a special occasion. He raised the flag at the highest point of the casde and let loose with a rebel yell. The flag waving overhead was not the Stars and Stripes, but the Confederate Stars and Bars. Most of the Marines joined in the yell, but a disapproving New Englander supposedly remarked, “What does he want now? Should we sing ‘Dixie?'” MG Andrew Bruce, the commanding general of the 77th Division, protested to the 10th Army that the Marines had stolen his prize. But LTG Buckner only mildly chided MajGen del Valle saying, “How can I be sore at him? My father fought under that flag!” LTG Buckner’s father was the Confederate BG Buckner who had surrendered Fort Donelson to then-BG Ulysses S. Grant in 1862. The Confederate Battle Flag flew only 2 days over Shuri Castle before the Stars and Stripes were formally raised on 31 May. Dusenberg’s flag was first lowered and presented to LTG Buckner as a souvenir. LTG Buckner remarked, “Okay! Now, let’s get on with the war!” Tragically, on 18 June, just days before Okinawa fell, an enemy shell killed LTG Buckner on Mezido Ridge while he was observing a Marine attack. http://www.confederatedigest.com/2012/01/planting-confederate-flag-at-snui.html |
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Quoted: If your great great granddaddy had the fortitude, he could have just invented a tractor, would have solved that problem right quick. Ain't got to feed and water a tractor when it ain't working. Why didn't he do that? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The trouble is that the meaning of a lot of that stuff has evolved and changed and people often embrace confederate symbols as being fir independence and against a large government. Being from Michigan, I don't care about the confederate stuff, but I recognize that culture evolves If your great great granddaddy had the fortitude, he could have just invented a tractor, would have solved that problem right quick. Ain't got to feed and water a tractor when it ain't working. Why didn't he do that? I am not surprised that a member with the Confederate flag all over his avatar would lack the critical thought necessary to think about how retarded that argument is before he posted it. |
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Quoted: Bingo. I’m a born and raised southerner. The mental gymnastics that some of the good ole boys use to love the confederate flag is alarming...like a democrat. The official Constitution of the Confederacy specifically addresses slavery and why it should be kept. It lessens a person. I’m fine with the flag flying at battlefields, monuments, museums....and I’m fine with the freedom of someone to fly it. I’ll laugh at someone who says it isn’t divisive. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: I find it funny that people still swing their purses at each other over a war that ended more than 150 years ago. Bingo. I’m a born and raised southerner. The mental gymnastics that some of the good ole boys use to love the confederate flag is alarming...like a democrat. The official Constitution of the Confederacy specifically addresses slavery and why it should be kept. It lessens a person. I’m fine with the flag flying at battlefields, monuments, museums....and I’m fine with the freedom of someone to fly it. I’ll laugh at someone who says it isn’t divisive. Fly the black power, african, whatever flag all you like, then go watch some straight out of africa, straight from the villages, neck lace videos on liveleak. Go bleed your heart there and tell them how much that hurts you to see that happening TODAY! |
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Quoted: I'm confused. Do we celebrate diversity or do we not? His comments seem hostile to it. View Quote Diversity is encouraged until someone leaves the herd. Then diversity isn't our strength anymore. Everyone in the herd must put the same pressure on the outlier to make him conform until he relents. Then diversity is strong again. |
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Quoted: [url=https://imgbb.com/]https://i.ibb.co/k3qgHRS/B0012-E76-EAEB-4-CD2-8945-275-CCCDA9-EA8.jpg On May 29, 1945, Able Company, Red Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, commanded by South Carolina native Capt Julius Dusenberg, approached to within 800 yards of Shuri Castle. The castle lay within the zone of the 77th Infantry Division, known as the Statue of Liberty Boys. However, GEN Ushijima’s rear guard had stalled the 77this advance. Impatient, MajGen del Valle ordered Capt Dusenberg to “take that damned place if you can. I’ll make the explanations.” Dusenberg radioed back, “Will do!” Dusenberg’s Marines stormed the stone fortress, quickly dispatching a detachment of Japanese soldiers who had remained behind. Once the casde had been taken, Dusenberg took off his hel- met and removed a flag he had been car- rying for just such a special occasion. He raised the flag at the highest point of the casde and let loose with a rebel yell. The flag waving overhead was not the Stars and Stripes, but the Confederate Stars and Bars. Most of the Marines joined in the yell, but a disapproving New Englander supposedly remarked, “What does he want now? Should we sing ‘Dixie?'” MG Andrew Bruce, the commanding general of the 77th Division, protested to the 10th Army that the Marines had stolen his prize. But LTG Buckner only mildly chided MajGen del Valle saying, “How can I be sore at him? My father fought under that flag!” LTG Buckner’s father was the Confederate BG Buckner who had surrendered Fort Donelson to then-BG Ulysses S. Grant in 1862. The Confederate Battle Flag flew only 2 days over Shuri Castle before the Stars and Stripes were formally raised on 31 May. Dusenberg’s flag was first lowered and presented to LTG Buckner as a souvenir. LTG Buckner remarked, “Okay! Now, let’s get on with the war!” Tragically, on 18 June, just days before Okinawa fell, an enemy shell killed LTG Buckner on Mezido Ridge while he was observing a Marine attack. http://www.confederatedigest.com/2012/01/planting-confederate-flag-at-snui.html View Quote That’s a lousy photoshop job |
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Quoted: Lol Not all Yankees are from NY. Slavery was one out of how many things they were pissed about? View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Bingo. I’m a born and raised southerner. The mental gymnastics that some of the good ole boys use to love the confederate flag is alarming...like a democrat. The official Constitution of the Confederacy specifically addresses slavery and why it should be kept. It lessens a person. I’m fine with the flag flying at battlefields, monuments, museums....and I’m fine with the freedom of someone to fly it. I’ll laugh at someone who says it isn’t divisive. Lol Not all Yankees are from NY. Slavery was one out of how many things they were pissed about? A little known fact, a black man was the first to go to court and legally take ownership of another black man in America Despicable white confederates with all their hate |
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Quoted: A little known fact, a black man was the first to go to court and legally take ownership of another black man in America Despicable white confederates with all their hate View Quote Bring race into it when nobody else has so far, just like a modern Democrat- keep showing how you've kept with the Democratic party since the 1800s. Keep showing your complete historical ignorance, this is great. |
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Quoted: A more apt comparison is the way the Romans felt about Greece. A defeated and conquered land, to be sure, but one with a great history worthy of a great deal of respect. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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Quoted: The US Civil War is the only war I can think of off the top of my head where the losers actually won the revisionist history battle after the war was over. View Quote Not trying to make a direct comparison but a lot of the worst societies were driven by revisionist Lost Cause BS like the Germans after WWI (“stabbed in the back”), the Chinese Communists (persecution by the western powers in the Opium Wars, “Sick Man of Asia”), and modern Arabs (the ISIS obsession with the Sykes-Picot Agreement). |
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Quoted: I am not surprised that a member with the Confederate flag all over his avatar would lack the critical thought necessary to think about how retarded that argument is before he posted it. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: The trouble is that the meaning of a lot of that stuff has evolved and changed and people often embrace confederate symbols as being fir independence and against a large government. Being from Michigan, I don't care about the confederate stuff, but I recognize that culture evolves If your great great granddaddy had the fortitude, he could have just invented a tractor, would have solved that problem right quick. Ain't got to feed and water a tractor when it ain't working. Why didn't he do that? I am not surprised that a member with the Confederate flag all over his avatar would lack the critical thought necessary to think about how retarded that argument is before he posted it. I'm not surprised that someone with your emotional beliefs wouldn't comprehend the meaning. These practices existed for a reason, hate wasn't one of them. Educate yourself http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/08/the-first-legal-slave-owner-in-what-would-become-the-united-states-was-a-black-man/ |
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First of all that's bullshit. (And I'm from WAY up north)
Second, what if somebody has rebel flag tattoo? What then, they won't take 'em? |
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Quoted: Oh NoS MuH RaCiSt. Just wait till they start banning the Betsy Ross flag and other stuff associated with the founding fathers. You people forget that the slippery slope is a real thing View Quote Valid point. According to the Marxists, everything having to do with our founding and the very Constitution itself is racist. The natural progression of this will be banning of anything having to do with them. You don’t give in to eternally offended Marxists because it will never end. |
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Quoted: Of course not. I don’t how many ANC flags I saw in the enlisted barracks while I was in. Never a word and never will be. Saw a “Buy Black” tee shirt in the chow hall. Pointed it out to a dark green SNCO pulling duty. He said “I was just looking too deep into it.” View Quote Do you’ve experienced the racist double standard first hand then |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Why would you fly the flag of a defeated enemy? I give up my guns, ammo, and regular magazines should be your state motto. As well as i love paying the king's men and being in a union, voluntarily. Quoted: Quoted: Why would you fly the flag of a defeated enemy? You should fly the flag of defeatism in New York. And to think, still lost to us. What a weak comeback. |
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Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: Why would you fly the flag of a defeated enemy? I give up my guns, ammo, and regular magazines should be your state motto. As well as i love paying the king's men and being in a union, voluntarily. Quoted: Quoted: Why would you fly the flag of a defeated enemy? You should fly the flag of defeatism in New York. And to think, still lost to us. “us”? You ain’t fought shit boy |
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Quoted: Same reason they used the SS? https://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2012/02/10/183d946e-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/1200x630/82ecea2cdcb78bdb2fcee8da73b8afa4/marines_ss_logo_AP120209148499_fullwidth.jpg And if I remember right they had a logo/emblem that looked like the Afrika Corps. Or still do. View Quote No..that's a scout sniper thing. |
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Quoted: Same reason they used the SS? https://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2012/02/10/183d946e-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/1200x630/82ecea2cdcb78bdb2fcee8da73b8afa4/marines_ss_logo_AP120209148499_fullwidth.jpg And if I remember right they had a logo/emblem that looked like the Afrika Corps. Or still do. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Why would you fly the flag of a defeated enemy? Same reason they used the SS? https://cbsnews2.cbsistatic.com/hub/i/r/2012/02/10/183d946e-a644-11e2-a3f0-029118418759/thumbnail/1200x630/82ecea2cdcb78bdb2fcee8da73b8afa4/marines_ss_logo_AP120209148499_fullwidth.jpg And if I remember right they had a logo/emblem that looked like the Afrika Corps. Or still do. So basically they adopt the symbols of enemies defeated by the US Army? |
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Very few people owned slaves in the South. Most were large plantation owners. 99.99 % of Confederate soldiers were just poor farm boys caught up in something much larger. They were fighting for their country, not slavery. Furthermore if their own people had not rounded them up in Africa and sold them to slave traders there would not have been any slaves. If the Confederate flag offends someone they need a history lesson.
SSG Ret. TN & TX ARNG 66-06 SCV BTW-I am not black-my 1970 Chevelle is. |
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Yup. One of the winning states. Sorry if I’m not so kosher with waving around the flag of traitors under the guise of “muh heritage” |
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Quoted: Does that make it any better? Do you think that Americans would have just thrown their hands up and said "well I guess slavery is OK" if there were more black slave owners and/or more white slaves? Bring race into it when nobody else has so far, just like a modern Democrat- keep showing how you've kept with the Democratic party since the 1800s. Keep showing your complete historical ignorance, this is great. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: A little known fact, a black man was the first to go to court and legally take ownership of another black man in America Despicable white confederates with all their hate Bring race into it when nobody else has so far, just like a modern Democrat- keep showing how you've kept with the Democratic party since the 1800s. Keep showing your complete historical ignorance, this is great. Go on living the dream that al the other leftest, revisionist want the rest of us to believe. Enjoy your iphone. |
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View Quote We gonna get attacked by zombies now? |
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Quoted: Yup. One of the winning states. Sorry if I’m not so kosher with waving around the flag of traitors under the guise of “muh heritage” View Quote New York literally pays the South millions of dollars every month in tax tributes due to the civil war. I'm not sure what level of winning that really is. |
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Quoted: New York literally pays the South millions of dollars every month in tax tributes due to the civil war. I'm not sure what level of winning that really is. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted: Quoted: Yup. One of the winning states. Sorry if I’m not so kosher with waving around the flag of traitors under the guise of “muh heritage” New York literally pays the South millions of dollars every month in tax tributes due to the civil war. I'm not sure what level of winning that really is. In return we got a near infinite source of salt, so I’m gonna cal it a big W. |
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Quoted: When you in-processed at Bragg you had to strip and explain what all of your tats meant. If any were deemed as extremist linked, you would be out-processed. This was done following the 1995 murder of a couple in Fayetteville by two guys in 504 PIR (iirc) View Quote It was started back in the mid '80 s. They were more interested in looking for gang tats then. Around '80 or so at PT formation, we had to strip to the waist. An officer and a guy in a suit walked the ranks looking at tats. We lost 2 or 3 due to gang affiliation. Looking for the Nazi stuff started later. |
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