Flying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agoTIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandiclemmy.worldimagemessage-square88fedilinkarrow-up1861arrow-down116
arrow-up1845arrow-down1imageTIL the U.S. Civil War is called "The Slave War" in Icelandiclemmy.worldFlying Squid to Today I Learned@lemmy.worldEnglish • 3 months agomessage-square88fedilink
minus-square@jkrtn@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish9•3 months agoUnfortunately nowhere near enough traitors were hanged for their insurrection and now here we are.
minus-square@roofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish8•3 months agoAndrew Johnson, objectively the worst and most destructive president our Union has ever had.
minus-square@roofuskit@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 months agoWithout Johnson pardoning all the rebels and leaving the cancer in the South to rot and spread we’d probably have never had Reagan as president.
Unfortunately nowhere near enough traitors were hanged for their insurrection and now here we are.
Andrew Johnson, objectively the worst and most destructive president our Union has ever had.
Ronald Regan is right up there with him.
Without Johnson pardoning all the rebels and leaving the cancer in the South to rot and spread we’d probably have never had Reagan as president.