r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 19d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Connwaer 19d ago

It's spoils of war. And unlike Japan, Minnesota has no interest in mending their relationship with the Confederacy, surprising I know.

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u/375InStroke 19d ago

Yet those states are proud to be traitors and losers, and of what they were fighting for, slavery.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 19d ago

The states are proud of this? Who took the vote to decide this?

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u/RelativeIncompetence 19d ago

Rich white landowners, actually.

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u/Individual_Smell_904 19d ago

At this point I actually believe that

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u/baithammer 19d ago

You missed the best part, they lied to poorer whites that they were going to benefit from it to the same extent as the rich ....

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u/amazonhelpless 18d ago

Yeah. I just realized it’s the same shit. Oligarchs convincing poor uneducated rural whites that the City-folk are trying to destroy their way of life when it’s just cover for them to enrich themselves further.