ECKIV

8th Generation Texan, Anti-Communist, Veteran of Texas State Guard and US Army, Jeffersonian / Paleo-Con, Relentless seeker of truth, liberty...and old things

[ECKIV @ECKIV1]

@canedeeman Send it South!

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@SaltyDGalveston 100%

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@canedeeman Lordy, I wish we could have some of that cooler weather!

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@CountryBoy_62 100%…indoctrinated with the victor’s version of history.

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@scotchandbbq @TexasGameWarden I do believe your theory is probably correct. I often see coolers of illegal fish and crab often taken by illegal methods and the perps are usually one of two general persuasions.

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@shaunvlog_ D or G for sure

[Mindy Esposito @mespo20062]

NO. YOU MOVE.
ONE WOMAN'S RESOLVE

In 2020, thousands signed a petition demanding Hot Springs, Arkansas remove its Confederate monument. The city manager backed them. Mobs were toppling statues across the country. It looked like just one more name added to the list of monuments that quietly disappeared.

Crystal Harvey wasn't having it.

She didn't organize a rally or wait for someone else to act. She filed Freedom of Information requests. She dug through eighty year old city records. And she found what nobody demanding removal had bothered to look for: the deed. In 1953, the City of Hot Springs had signed over that ground to the United Daughters of the Confederacy, permanently. The petitioners had public pressure. Crystal had the paperwork.

The monument stayed.

That was just the beginning. When the city later converted the area to paid parking, even the UDC ladies who volunteer to tend the monument found themselves having to pay to care for their own property. Crystal fought that too, and won free parking on the street beside it. When she noticed strangers stopping at the monument and saluting the Confederate soldier, she discovered it had quietly become a stop on a scavenger hunt app, saluting required to check it off the list. Nearly a century after the UDC placed him there, people are still hunting him down, and something about them being made to salute feels like its own kind of justice.

"No. You Move." is the story of one woman who refused to let history get erased on her watch, and how she did it not with slogans but with documents, persistence, and the same quiet resolve the UDC women who came before her carried a hundred and sixty years ago. It's a reminder that erasure isn't inevitable. One person who does the homework, asks the right question, and refuses to move can be enough.

If you've ever wondered what one person can actually do, read Crystal's story.

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[CluckyMcCluckerson @BockBockBucock]

I don't think people are grasping what a truly monstrous organization the SPLC is, and the role they play in the larger socio-political arena.

The SPLC, among other things, produces a "hate map", a list of organizations they have found to be actively engaging in bigoted activity.

To the average American, this conjures images of burning flags and lynched blacks.

In truth, the hate map contains groups that aren't politically aligned with the SPLC. For instance, look at "Moms for Liberty", who's goals are removing homosexual materials from classrooms, along with CRT materials. Southern Heritage festival "Dixie Fest" in Travellers Rest, SC made the list, apparently because attendees seek to raise Confederate flags in public spaces.

The hate map is HUGELY influential, cited by News Organizations and Government Officials as proof of racism and bigotry, and used to villify political opposition. If the SPLC says you're racist, you're racist, and with a net worth of somewhere between $700 and $800 MILLION dollars, they can bring a HUGE amount of pressure to bear on their targets.

Now we learn what a racket the whole thing is. The SPLC, we have learned, is controlling the supply AND demand side of racism in America, initially by simply declaring things to be racist (Confederate flags/monuments) and lobbying against them, but now also by PAYING actual hate groups like the KKK to attend Confederate rallies and make a scene.

Suppose the SPLC decided your politics weren't in line with theirs. Their model is to declare your business hateful, put it on their map, allowing network news to smear you, and politicians to investigate you. Then they would bring their $700M corps of lawyers to sue you for everything imaginable, and pay the KKK to show up on your doorstep in full gear so the world would forever associate you with that organization. Then the news and the politicians come back for a second bite.

Its a terrifying thought.

The proving ground for this exact model was the Confederate Flag. Declared racist, despite being seen by Americans as Southern pride in every poll, targeted for legal action, vilified in the media and bashed by politicians looking to make hay, the Confederate flag was successfully demonized.

If the SPLC can do it to the Confederate flag, they can do it to your Church. They can do it to your bike club, or your gaming group, or your favorite retail store. Or to you.

Their reckoning is LONG overdue, and every American should cheer for them all to rot in prison for a long, long time.

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@BuffaloByGodDan yessir, me too

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@BuffaloByGodDan My mother’s side is from Western, NC. My great aunt often sends photos of her yard and weather reports. I do envy her and miss the mountains often

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@BuffaloByGodDan Every day

[Monuments Across Dixie @Across_Dixie]

🚨Breaking🚨

🏚️ Community Books of Stone Mountain — a self-proclaimed far-left radical “bookstore” that existed solely to attack and destroy Stone Mountain (the largest Confederate monument in the world) — has just been evicted from their building.

📝The owner served them a termination of Lease. They’re packing up and heading out.

🙌Another win for the South. Heritage stands. The mountain remains.

🫡Deo Vindice.

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@canedeeman Books have a way of doing that!

[Barnaby Breaks History 🇺🇸 @BarnabyHistory]

🇺🇸 Joshua Chamberlain volunteered to fight in the Spanish-American War at the age of 70. President William McKinley supported it.

Despite that, the military passed. But in one of the strangest twists of irony, the command he wanted was given instead to William C. Oates.

The same William C. Oates who lead the 15th Alabama Infantry up the hill against Chamberlain at Little Round Top in 1863.

[SouthernAnglo @AngloSouthern]

Yes, I’m sure that academics have a much better understanding of the “plain people” of the Confederacy than Thornwell, who lived amongst them.

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@tdirt5 My favorite

[William Estes @WilliamE1863]

"The collapse of the States’ Rights Democratic Party signaled the end of a distinct Southern veto within the national system. By eventually fleeing into the Republican Party, Southerners traded their sovereign authority for empty platitudes and corporate dominance."
-Clyde Wilson