These peeps run all around Virginia.

Oh, Virginia…

(It sucks here.)

(Also, Virginia is a strong-hold of the Libertarian Party, go figure)

  • Pluto [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.netOP
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    He was more of a centrist, though he had Marx and Engels’ support. The “Radical Republicans” were more, well, to the left of Lincoln, though Lincoln was definitely crucial to ending slavery.

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      He also checked over what was gonna be a huuuuge execution of like 300 indigenous people and dismissed like 250 of those iirc, so uh critical support I guess? But also I think westward expasion went unchecked under him.

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        True, though he did free people from bondage in California due to an executive order (I mean, Indigenous folk).

        Honestly, though, he did suspend habeas corpus