• FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today
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    5 months ago

    He was better for emancipation and reparations of freed slaves than Lincoln, he even had a history of employing them and treating them well during the war and before the great emancipation. His inaugural address alone was enough to earn points with me, but he was also responsible for changes of the Tenure of Office Act which allowed him to remove presidential cabinet members without the senate needing to vote on it, gave suffrage to people of all color via the 15th Ammendment (which almost certainly would have been vetoed by the previous Johnson who took the reigns after Lincoln was assassinated and before Grant was elected), and his administration defeated the KKK via state marshals and federal troops over his 2 terms as president.

    To be clear, Grant was a radical of his time. He was fringe and far left from the norm of the time. He treated blacks as equals and as citizens when under the previous president Johnson there were massacres and riots against African American communities. To Grant, they were worth defending with the lives of servicemen like himself.

    By comparison Lincoln was a moderate too afraid to give any promise of rights or eventual freedom to slaves because he wanted to avoid any and all conflict. It took two years after secession and war for Lincoln to emancipate slaves. I’m not saying Grant was perfect in every way, mind you, but if I had to pick a president whom I liked the most it would easily be Grant. (It’s not a high bar).

    And that’s all you’ll get out of me, go read a book you lazy fuck.

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      Lincoln was a moderate too afraid to give any promise of rights or eventual freedom to slaves because he wanted to avoid any and all conflict

      To be fair in the context of the era, he had his fill of catastrophic conflict during his tenure, and the Thirteen Amendment was passed by the skin of Congress’s teeth. The huge leap was his, the following strides were for somebody else to take.

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        Lincoln was also at one point on board with a plan to send them all back to Africa. I’m sticking to the “he was a moderate” take I had before.

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          fun fact, Liberia was actually an experiment at sending freed African American slaves back to Africa because people thought that freed slaved would have better prospects of liberty and prosperity in Africa than they did in the States.

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      You’re quite correct on all points in my opinion, for what it’s worth.

      Edit: although to be fair, Lincoln had to navigate an extremely complex political situation. He could’ve done a lot worse than how it ended up.

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      He was better for emancipation and reparations of freed slaves than Lincoln

      In fairness to Lincoln, he wasn’t given much of an opportunity to govern post-war.

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      5 months ago

      Hi. I just asked a question. You invited a question with an open ended statement that he was “your favorite”. You have no way of knowing what I know or what I have read. You have no idea of my name, my education, what car I drive, or what I like for breakfast.

      I don’t have the same knowledge about you.

      So instead of making things personal when someone asks a perfectly normal question in a conversation maybe you should ask yourself “Am I the problem?”.

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        I don’t think he meant anything by it. Just a way of saying “I’m done writing on the internet” with a certain style

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            5 months ago

            lol he really did

            here in /c/politicalmemes, we all have a quirky way to close out our arguments,

            That’s all from me, I’m off to shit the bed fools.

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        5 months ago

        You could have searched for the readily available information. I’ve demonstrated far more effort in this one sided convo, despite us living in a world filled with insincere contrarian badgers. Be happy and fuck off.

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          Go screw yourself in your giant Grant cuddle blanket. Since with your attitude you will be lucky if someone pisses on you if you catch on fire. Miserable asshole.