Anonymous wrote:stacked the crowd at Ft Bragg with supplicants.

https://bsky.app/profile/sinboy.bsky.social/post/3lrbsmip4zs2k

I guess they don't realize they will soon be referred to as suckers and losers.

Anonymous wrote:Irony: Braxton Bragg was a terrible military general.

Cont. But, the namesake (which has now changed to another military Bragg) has never been that important on a military post.

Bragg is connected with Airborne, etc. Benning with Infantry. etc.

It was stupid to rename them because the namesakes were not really part of it. I guarantee you most people in the military never stopped referring to it as Fort Bragg. It had a long history with military members and had nothing to do with the Confederate general.

Irony: Braxton Bragg was a terrible military general.

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...

And for the most part, it wasn’t done until decades after the Civil War ended. Most confederate statues were built in the 1920s and the 1960s to intimidate Black Americans.

I’m the PP and I’m familiar with the history of the statues, but not with the practice of naming federal or public facilities after generals of the losing side. So asked AI.

Public and federal buildings named after Confederate figures were primarily established in two periods:

- **1880s–1920s**: Driven by the "Lost Cause" myth and Jim Crow era, Southern states named buildings like Fort Bragg (1918) to honor Confederates, often for reconciliation or regional pride.
- **1940s–1960s**: Amid the Civil Rights Movement, namings like Forrest Hall (1958) reflected resistance to desegregation.
Most namings occurred in Southern states, targeting military bases, courthouses, and schools.

This is the short answer. The longer answer was much more interesting.

That they needed poor southern boys to join the military?

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Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...

I’m sure that it’s strange, but the good news is it’s still only losers that fly that flag.

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Anonymous wrote:The American military is a giant white supremacist cabal and I’m glad people are starting to wake up to the fact.

It needs to be defunded and disbanded. We don’t need a military like the size and composition we have. At the very minimum white men need to be excluded from being allowed to serve, unless they are part of a disenfranchised group and just happen to ALSO be white males.

Good lord you are truly an idiot. The US military is the most diverse organization in the government. And you do realize your proposal is flat out illegal.

You are responding to a disingenuous post by a MAGA who is trying to act out a stereotype that lives in their own mind. Progressives don’t actually say those things.

DP. Or think those things.

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Anonymous wrote:It worries me. Over the decades I lived that life, I saw a change. The older people were more professional and apolitical and were from all different parts of the country. The younger people were more political and religious, and came mostly from the south.

For example, I remember a new commander asking a very senior leader how he can share “his faith” with his troops if they came to him for help because his faith was “important to him.” The very senior leader basically said it’s ok for your faith to be important to you, but it doesn’t belong in the office because you run the risk of alienating people who have a different faith. Faith guy seemed offended (as they frequently and easily are) but I was thrilled that the senior leader was so reasonable and matter of fact.

Once saw a new Lt Col hang a Gadsden Flag on his base house. Ridiculous. It didn’t last long, I suspect the professional and apolitical highest ranking officer on base told him to take it down.

By the end of our time there, I learned that the new highest ranking person on base was an evangelical trumper and sharing this with the local business leaders . Huge foul. Wildly unprofessional. Won the hearts of the local community that was evangelical trump country, but outrageously unprofessional.

And that was just his first term. It’s gotten so much worse.

Why would the colonel take down a Gadsden flag? It is a historically proper flag flown proudly throughout the US representing pushback to British tyranny.

So glad this era of liberal censorship has ended. May Biden’s silencing never again occur.

Biden silencing you are a complete idiot

Trumps state media is silencing the first amendment . What do you not understand about your freedoms being stripped away?.

Biden never did that you moron.

Alito is SCOTUS he actually took an oath to the US hand on bible that flag stunt was not freedom of speech fir a SCOTUS
In January 2021, the upside down American flag had become a banner for Donald Trump’s effort to block the peaceful transfer of power. Armed insurrectionists carried it into the U.S. Capitol on January 6. Eleven days later, even as National Guard troops still guarded the Capitol and the Supreme Court building itself, Justice Samuel Alito flew the insurrectionists’ flag outside his Virginia home.

This was far more than an act of indiscreet partisanship

No, this was not a gaffe. It was a senior government official hoisting the banner of a violent insurrectionist movement devoted to overturning a core constitutional principle. At the time, there were numerous cases before the Court in which the justices swatted away Trump’s false claims of a stolen election.

A breach of this magnitude — in a cases that implicated the health of our democratic institutions, by a justice that hasn’t shown a single shred of contrition — is a fit topic for robust political intervention. Term limits

The traitor Alito did not recuse himself that’s sick and wrong you UnAmerican idiot.

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Anonymous wrote:The American military is a giant white supremacist cabal and I’m glad people are starting to wake up to the fact.

It needs to be defunded and disbanded. We don’t need a military like the size and composition we have. At the very minimum white men need to be excluded from being allowed to serve, unless they are part of a disenfranchised group and just happen to ALSO be white males.

Good lord you are truly an idiot. The US military is the most diverse organization in the government. And you do realize your proposal is flat out illegal.

You are responding to a disingenuous post by a MAGA who is trying to act out a stereotype that lives in their own mind. Progressives don’t actually say those things.

Anonymous wrote:The American military is a giant white supremacist cabal and I’m glad people are starting to wake up to the fact.

It needs to be defunded and disbanded. We don’t need a military like the size and composition we have. At the very minimum white men need to be excluded from being allowed to serve, unless they are part of a disenfranchised group and just happen to ALSO be white males.

Good lord you are truly an idiot. The US military is the most diverse organization in the government. And you do realize your proposal is flat out illegal.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...

And for the most part, it wasn’t done until decades after the Civil War ended. Most confederate statues were built in the 1920s and the 1960s to intimidate Black Americans.

I’m the PP and I’m familiar with the history of the statues, but not with the practice of naming federal or public facilities after generals of the losing side. So asked AI.

Public and federal buildings named after Confederate figures were primarily established in two periods:

- **1880s–1920s**: Driven by the "Lost Cause" myth and Jim Crow era, Southern states named buildings like Fort Bragg (1918) to honor Confederates, often for reconciliation or regional pride.
- **1940s–1960s**: Amid the Civil Rights Movement, namings like Forrest Hall (1958) reflected resistance to desegregation.
Most namings occurred in Southern states, targeting military bases, courthouses, and schools.

This is the short answer. The longer answer was much more interesting.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...

And for the most part, it wasn’t done until decades after the Civil War ended. Most confederate statues were built in the 1920s and the 1960s to intimidate Black Americans.

Black Americans were not ever intimidated by stupid statues. Fire hoses and attack dogs, yes; a statue of an often unknown cracker covered in pigeon poop, no.

The American military is a giant white supremacist cabal and I’m glad people are starting to wake up to the fact.

It needs to be defunded and disbanded. We don’t need a military like the size and composition we have. At the very minimum white men need to be excluded from being allowed to serve, unless they are part of a disenfranchised group and just happen to ALSO be white males.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...

And for the most part, it wasn’t done until decades after the Civil War ended. Most confederate statues were built in the 1920s and the 1960s to intimidate Black Americans.

stacked the crowd at Ft Bragg with supplicants.

https://bsky.app/profile/sinboy.bsky.social/post/3lrbsmip4zs2k

I guess they don't realize they will soon be referred to as suckers and losers.

Anonymous wrote:If anyone was doubting it, Trump just announced that he is restoring the name Fort Robert E Loser…er. Lee.

As someone with roots in a European country that fought a civil war, I can't tell you how bizarre it is to put up statutes of or to name buildings after individuals on the losing side of that war. It's just not done. Only in America...