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[Levi]

Okay, thanks guys!

[Tawa]

Edit: While I have a recent post here, are people able to see these things?
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I can't.

[Baffler]

Edit: While I have a recent post here, are people able to see these things?
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I can't.

That's kinda disappointing. Well, thanks.

[scrdest]

how awesome General Lee was

Well, he was, kinda. He just was awesome for the wrong side, and narrowly at that, IIRC.

[TD1]

Eh.

It's only the "wrong" side because the North won.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

Edit: While I have a recent post here, are people able to see these things?
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I can't.

That's kinda disappointing. Well, thanks.

I, on the other hand, am fairly sure I can.

[TD1]

All I see is little boxes.

Am I meant to see little boxes?

'Cause I see little boxes.

[Frumple]

... though, as the not-so-token southerner (there's a handful of us floating around the forum) I'll add to baffler's observation by noting that while the ones that fly the flag explicitly for racism is fairly minor, most of the group in question is still pretty damn racist. It's significantly rare that you run into someone flying the battle flag that's not using it as a bell whistle to other racists as a secondary factor. Folks that aren't, usually aren't so damned willfully delusional about what the flag means.

[BlitzDungeoneer]

I see letters which vaguely resemble LotR moon runes, or elf runes, or whatever those were called.

[scrdest]

Eh.

It's only the "wrong" side because the North won.

No, I'm fairly sure that the one side that openly fought for slavery in several documents issued by them is morally in the wrong regardless of who won.

[Baffler]

I see letters which vaguely resemble LotR moon runes, or elf runes, or whatever those were called.

The first two are from the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, the rest are from the Elder and Younger Futhark. I was trying to figure out if there's default support for runes, for reasons, but I'd gone out of my way to get support for literally everything at some point in the past and couldn't tell on my own. The answer seems to be "sometimes."

[TD1]

Eh.

It's only the "wrong" side because the North won.

No, I'm fairly sure that the one side that openly fought for slavery in several documents issued by them is morally in the wrong regardless of who won.

If the south had won, would you be citing those documents (because by now slavery probably would have been renounced in the Southern states as a consequence of huge peer pressure from within and without,) or would you be talking about the morally wrong, land grabbing North?

[scrdest]

Eh.

It's only the "wrong" side because the North won.

No, I'm fairly sure that the one side that openly fought for slavery in several documents issued by them is morally in the wrong regardless of who won.

If the south had won, would you be citing those documents (because by now slavery probably would have been renounced in the Southern states as a consequence of huge peer pressure from within and without,) or would you be talking about the morally wrong, land grabbing North?

'By now' is entirely relevant. If they were in a position to even want to renounce it pre-war, there wouldn't be a war. And what they would do later would not be taken in consideration in regards to what they fought the war for. And considering the Reconstruction, they weren't particularly keen on keeping it illegal *despite* immense pressure, I doubt they would be keener when they had the political power.

As a non-American, it's not like I have any particular favoritism for either side inherently.

[i2amroy]

Of course don't forget that if the South had of won it would have codified a state's right to secede from the Union, so it would be an open question if there even would be a United States of America by now.

[Arx]

I see letters which vaguely resemble LotR moon runes, or elf runes, or whatever those were called.

The first two are from the Anglo-Saxon Futhorc, the rest are from the Elder and Younger Futhark. I was trying to figure out if there's default support for runes, for reasons, but I'd gone out of my way to get support for literally everything at some point in the past and couldn't tell on my own. The answer seems to be "sometimes."

Well, they work for me.