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ananda

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7. I'm going to tell you a harsh truth.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Sat May 24, 2025, 09:29 PM

May 24

I think that every damm soldier from
a confederate state would have been
a Trumper today.

One example is my dad. He was a
WWII hero but always, at core, a
white male supremacist.

When he got older, after my mom
died, he remarried a racist woman
from Arkansaas.

They watched Fox news daily, and
expressed their racism openly.

Truth is that men and women in the
South are raised to take on certain
roles.

Men work and bring home the bread,
and women have kids and bake.

I have lived among these people for
years, and that's just how it is.

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You betrayed us: [View all] applegrove May 24 OP

I imagine all the dead WWII soldiers staring down from heaven, looking at us. Irish_Dem May 24 #1

Just think about how many JMCKUSICK May 24 #2

Yes they have betrayed their parents, the sacrifices made by their own family. Irish_Dem May 24 #3

Indeed. JMCKUSICK May 24 #4

My uncle liberated two concentration camps Javaman May 24 #5

My uncle also homegirl May 25 #15

My Daddy and six Uncles served during WWII. czarjak May 24 #6

Sounds like my dad. Doodles May 25 #16

My dad was about the same age as yours when he enlisted. slightlv May 25 #19

I'm going to tell you a harsh truth. ananda May 24 #7

I Had Several Relatives In WW2... GB_RN May 24 #8

Besides my dad, who I wrote about in another reply here, slightlv May 25 #20

Agree. republianmushroom May 24 #9

I really do not understand sdfernando May 24 #10

K&R Blue Owl May 25 #11

Unamerican and Unending Greed. Cha May 25 #13

Chilling Graphic that depics just exactly Cha May 25 #12

I'm a boomer who was raised on reverence for the ideals fought for in WWII. ihaveaquestion May 25 #14

General Patton dispised and distrusted the Russians... Trump kisses their asses Number9Dream May 25 #17

Did They Fight and Die Starbeach May 25 #18

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