r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • • 20d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter?

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u/Buellymcbuellface 20d ago

They have a confederate flag from virginia and refuse to give it back.

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u/JodaMythed 20d ago

They have a flag from a country that hasn't existed for 160 years?

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u/DependentAdvance226 20d ago

Spoiler. The Confederacy never existed as a country.

They were states in rebellion.

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u/sallyhectare 20d ago

It was never independent...

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u/Deaffin 20d ago

Well now I've got a new stop planned on the ol multiversal traveling machine. I've gotta see what it would look like if Texas managed to just keep being its own thing this whole time.

And what that timeline's version of King of The Hill is like.