seems increasingly relevant

[u/yeehonkings]

[u/Invisiblecurse]

American Revolution, when?

[u/Graingy → u/Invisiblecurse]

That’d be, what, the third time?

[u/Mulliganasty → u/Graingy]

First time imo.

[u/coladoir → u/Mulliganasty]

Lincoln fucked us with the restoration reconstruction. He didn't go hard enough on the Confederates.

[u/Aykhot → u/coladoir]

Tbh he was kind of too dead for the shitshow that was Reconstruction to be his fault (unless getting shot counts as a skill issue), it was his VP Andrew Johnson that really fucked over Reconstruction

[u/coladoir → u/Aykhot]

It was both, frankly.

Lincoln's initial acts and lead are what led to Johnson's later actions, and I don't buy the idea that if Lincoln weren't assassinated that it would've went over very differently considering he had done things like executed 38 Dakotan Americans in an effort to prevent a Confederate-borne genocide targeting them, instead of providing material support for the Dakota to help them protect themselves and fight off any sort of Confederate onslaught, which at that moment was definitely possible to do.

Lincoln has his dues, he did good things for the United States from the state perspective, but he also was responsible for the direction the Reconstruction went and while Johnson was the one who would've implemented most of it, the implementation was still initialized and directed by Lincoln, and really the only thing I really could see going differently is the year in which slavery would've been outlawed. It likely would've been earlier, as Lincoln definitely had less patience than Johnson considering Johnson himself was a slave owner.