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I'm sidestepping some parts of his past for obvious reasons, but you get the idea.
My favorite version of the same
Ooh, I have a dukes of hazzard model ive had for years because I didnt want to throw away a perfectly good model, and I also didnt want to make a racist shitbox. This is a solid option.
I was recently watching a few episodes of Dukes of Hazzard and them Duke boys is woke. Despite the flag issue, they were very against bigotry of any kind.
They were! But the car is still a racist shitbox.
I've got some solid ideas thanks to a few other folks in here, so maybe I'll be able to have some fun getting it done soon
I forget what MTV car makeover show this was, but it had a version of that car with the confederate flag on the roof and all ... except the flag used the colors of the Jamaican flag.
Oh hell yes, please do this. There's a lot of options for subtle changes if you search images of "general grant car."
I kind of want to name it "Northern Aggression", and find some good small pride stickers and rainbow pinstripe....and maybe an antifascist action sticker for the hood?
Well I'm going to end up going down an ADHD rabbit hole of indecision on this for a while....
Yoooooo
There is room in this world an alternate universe Fast and Furious franchise where it's nothing but buck fucking wild meme muscle cars driven by a montle crew of drag queens and furries, doing lefty adventure shit.
And it would demand a mighty stable of queer as fuck muscle cars, going from the subtle and prim and not quite proper, to rainbow pinstripe Trans-Ams that lives drives into the backend of a rolling base modeled after Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.
The Fast and the Fabulous
I would call the 1969 Challenger the "General Glee"
......I would watch that nonstop.
make a windshield sticker across the top that reads "THE ROAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSION"
Rear window might be better.
Ooooh, thats good.... I like it
I would suggest that referring to "Northern Aggression" is supporting into the traitors' version of the story. It wasn't northern aggression.
I'm not sure what you could use instead. Maybe reference the "terrible swift sword" from the Battle Hymn of the Republic.
I know exactly what it means. Thats why I like it, to further poke fun.
This is a model car I'm making for me. I don't care about the opinions of the losers.
I made a rainbow flag for the roof of an orange Charger in the racing game I used to frequent.
Also had a 69 on the door for good measure.
Keep it orange and add flames. Then it's the "General Sherman"
Love it, though the blue could be a shade more midnight for me.
Yeah, the variations online range from a sparkling denim blue to navy, but agreed, should be a deep navy with a subtle sparkle like the tears of ten thousand slave owners.
GLITTER. RAINBOW. PINSTRIPE.
Well now at least thats settled in my head.
The worst thing Sherman ever did was stop
His interactions with native Americans is at least up there.
I agree that they should have let him destroy more of the slavery infrastructure, though.
We need a shermanposting sub on Lemmy.
Yeah, but at least we have one in the Fediverse:
https://piefed.social/c/shermanposting
Having said that, if you make a community, I'll help mod for it.
He's got some serious Hugh Jackman vibes - maybe that Wolverine stuff is based in reality.
Which parts? The slash and burn to the sea part? Not saying it was right but would we be here now if he carried it out?
We would not. Those slaver dynasties needed to end. Their culture–the culture of slavery–needed to be genocided.
Needs to be, I'm afraid we're slipping into it again with the penal system currently in place in the US
It's no longer just a matter of ending a couple hundred rich asshole families who we already beat in war. That was the ounce of prevention. It's so much messier now.
The parts after the war. I got my timeline backward. He was a big advocate of the ethnic cleansing of the Sioux, and other tribes, in which he participated to a limited extent.
No debate about destroying the infrastructure that was upholding slavery. If anything, I think the slaves should have gotten all the assets of their former masters and the US should have gone through with reconstruction.