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[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 61 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Makes you think. Just what should we do with Mar-a-lago when this is all over?

[–] TwistedCister@lemm.ee 18 points 3 weeks ago

Low income housing developments for immigrants with free citizenship classes.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

maybe it stays as a golf course, but no use of pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, heavily limits on fertilizer use, no watering except collected rainwater, rainwater, and/or tertiary treated sewage, nothing motorized, and nothing electric except from more environmental sources—maybe have a few wind turbines there—and/or wp:nickel-iron batteries.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 weeks ago

Oh, see that's much more wholesome than what I was thinking.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 weeks ago

Pave over it and erase it from history.

[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 23 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

It really is a shame the Confederate generals weren't lined up and publicly hanged, but then as now, power gives you access to a different tier of 'justice'.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago

So true and being white.

[–] cabron_offsets@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

We shoulda had him hanged by his balls.

[–] roofuskit@lemmy.world 16 points 3 weeks ago

Andrew Johnson is still the worst president the US ever had. He led us to where we are today by allowing the cancer to live and eat us alive from the inside out.

[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

That would be to peaceful. I say set him on fire and let people take turns beating out the fire. Instead he became the 1st President of Washington and Lee University.

[–] DMCMNFIBFFF@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

maybe do a few years picking cotton, with ex-slaves as overseers.

[–] DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks ago

Good.

Lee's more strict expectations and harsher punishments of the slaves on Arlington plantation nearly led to a revolt, since many of the enslaved people had been given to understand that they were to be made free as soon as Custis died, and protested angrily at the delay.

[–] flandish@lemmy.world 6 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

it doesn’t count if it’s from a terrorist leader.

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[–] Bluefalcon@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 weeks ago

We love our traders