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[–] ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 57 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Haley's response:

“I think it always comes down to the role of government and what the rights of the people are,” Haley replied. “And I will always stand by the fact that I think government was intended to secure the rights and freedoms of the people. It was never meant to be all things to all people. Government doesn’t need to tell you how to live your life. They don’t need to tell you what you can and can’t do. They don’t need to be a part of your life. They need to make sure that you have freedom. We need to have capitalism. We need to have economic freedom. We need to make sure that we do all things so that individuals have the liberties so that they can have freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom to do or be anything they want to be without government getting in the way.”

All Haley had to do was just add in that the Confederacy was about taking away liberties of groups of people and their ability to seek out economic freedom, and that slaves had no freedom of everything.

The bar was on the fucking ground and Haley still failed to meet it.

[–] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 17 points 10 months ago (1 children)

It's too bad we didn't really crush the Confederates after the war. Meaning, really rub their noses in their loss, but give them a path back to redemption that doesn't involve letting them off easy.

Don't allow them to erect statues for "heritage" and so on. Don't allow them to teach about the "Northern war of aggression" and all that.

[–] AmberPrince@lemmy.world 5 points 10 months ago

Marching to the sea burning everything down is my heritage.

[–] PorradaVFR@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

FREEDOM!!!*

*except for what you do in bed or with your uterus, what you may want to read, unfettered access to empirical reality and other things which we’ll maybe let you know about once we figure them out.

[–] hansl@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Also the GOP came out to say her candidacy was “toast” and I feel like I’m taking crazy pills. Their top guy right now literally used the words state rights and said that it wasn’t about slavery. Why is Haley toast?

Am I the only one who noticed that level of hypocrisy?

[–] ChemicalPilgrim@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Because everyone else is held to some kind of standard, and he's not.

[–] AutistoMephisto@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Well, yeah. Because that would mean giving personhood to the group that was enslaved, and Republicans love to ask, "Well, can we really say that Group "x" are people?"