#confederate names

[natjennie]

when tres horny boys absolutely merk barbara and throw his body off the edge of goldcliff. and they check his pockets and find pictures of his family and say they all "look racist" so they feel less bad about killing him. protagonists of all time.

#'theyre wearing fantasy confederate flag tshirts. so its the confederate flag but with dragons' #'i dont even know why fantasy spencers sells those' #your name. is taako. just kidding that's my name. say my name! #so slay #taz balance

[alliluyevas]

also like I absolutely do understand why people don’t consider NOVA to be southern but at the same time every third street or building where I live seems to be named after either a confederate general or Thomas Jefferson.

#I literally live on a street named after a confederate general #if you throw a rock in Virginia as soon as it stops rolling they name it after Thomas Jefferson. lol

[whilomm]

liking the aesthetics of manly man stuff but trying not to buy from right wing MRA 4channers

#LISTEN I KNOW YALL MIGHT NOT WANAN HAVE A THING ON UR ABOUT PAGE EXPLICITLY DETAILING YOUR POLITICS #BUT COULD U PLEASE CONSIDER HAVING LIKE. ONE GAY SOAP TO SIGNAL. OR ST. #im just fucken. analyzing ur posts.....is this too patriotic? is this a subtle reference to 4chan soyboy conspiracy theories?? #come on it would even be fitting like #okay sudsy bear if ur chill consider putting out a rainbow soap called 'bear soap (the gay kind)' its a good name #just godddd this is always. a prolem. #oh i wanna buy knives. spend 20 mjnutes digging to find out oh yeah they also sell. nazi knives. confederate flags. #i wanna buy cosmetics. oh wow thank u for having NO ESTROGENICS #to be clear im not explicitly accussing all of these sites of being MRA 4chsnners magas #(well the knife sites i am they make it. somewhat obvious.) #but seeing them talk about ohhh soy is BAD FOR MEN makes me say. ah hm so like. howww deep are u..into that. #did u just hear the psudeoscience and accept it w/o question or liiike. are u Deep Into It. #do u think theyre putting chemcials in the water to make the freskin frogs gay #anyway i dont expect them to like go all out or anything but one lil hint 'oh btw im chill i just enjoy knives/soap/tacticool stuff' #like a funny morale patch w a communist meme or a gay soap #not that that Proves Anything just ya kno. if all i have to go on is them having a couple too many american flags that would be enough to #say ehhhhh sure #buzzy

[thisautistic]

You're telling me they gave a beloved ship an unrequited, bury your gays-style ending in the year of our lord 2023?

I'm... like that's HOMOPHOBIC HOMOPHOBIA

Just glad Arden and Dylan managed to avoid it. (I know it wasn't Arden's choice and I am very upset about it but like)

#teen wolf #sterek #stiles stilinski #arden cho #dylan o'brien #jeff davis #i mean kinda what do you expect from a dude named after the Confederate president but like

[mumblelard]

it keeps me sharp, knowing that i am only a half cup of food away from becoming prey for this beast or happy wednesday imaginary constructs

#boba is boba for goths #boba asked me for raw bacon #boba likes skateboarding videos too #bookshelves #when i imagine boba imagining eating a chipmunk they taste like nutella #tokyo tower #boba #the poetic edda #edisto #greasy grimy gopher guts #confederates in the attic #potluck supper with meeting to follow #black forest cake #a woman named drown #end of message

[arctic-hands]

Picture it: sophomore American history. The year is two thousand and eight. The teacher is known for passing out jolly ranchers, one per student per day, when a kid does a good job. One day, she wants us to list every state in the country. Kids start listing them off in unison, mostly alphabetically, but falter around the I states (this is in Indiana, mind). Except one triumphant voice lingers as every other voice trails off in doubt and consternation. This voice flawlessly recites every state in these United States* as the class and teacher stare in awe, and at the very end the resounding voice makes mention of Puerto Rico and Guam as territories. The teacher wordlessly hands over two jolly ranchers.

A new day. List the presidents. Nobody knows beyond Washington, Lincoln, FDR, JFK, Clinton, George W. Bush–the incumbent finishing up his final term in a few months. Except. One voice–just as triumphant–recites every president, in order, even making mention of Grover Cleveland's non-consecutive second term. Everyone–teacher and student alike–stares again, this time almost in horror. The voice, embarrassed and blushing at the stares this time, finishes the forty-three chronologically, and this time as the teacher hands over another two jolly ranchers she overcomes her shock to ask "How did you know that??"

At which the body that contains the voice shrugs sheepishly, pops a blue raspberry in their mouth, and makes a vague "I 'unno" sound–unwilling to admit that the Fifty Nifty song they sang with their class in a third grade recital had permanently seared itself into their brain, as did the Nickelodeon presidents song that aired during the Oh Four election between Bush and Kerry

*I realized after while at dinner that evening when I told my parents about it that I had completely skipped Pennsylvania and Rhode Island, but the listing was so smooth and confident that no one noticed. I never made that mistake again regardless

#american history #jolly ranchers #at one point our teacher in her infinite wisdom decided to announce our grades without our names attached #and had us guess who got what score. why she thought this was a good idea i do not know #but everyone immediately singled me out as one of two completely one hundred percenters. they were wrong tho #i was too chronically exhausted after school to do any kind of homework so i was pulling solid Bs #this class was kinda worthless tho because my teacher–who in respect was really micro/agressive towards Black students– #taught us that 'we' had won the Battle Of Corydon in the civil war #naturally since Indiana was a Union state i took that to mean the Union won the battle and carried that knowledge for years #until one day looking it up on Wikipedia to prove a point to theta i found out the Union LOST the battle of Corydon #and either my American history teacher was an incompetent or she was a Confederate sympathizer with her 'we won' remark #which in retrospect she prolly was #anyway #tagging my hometown because i'm petty #Richmond Indiana

[super-who-locked-me-in-here]

Why did I have to learn from an academic paper about hannigram and lycanthropy that the guy who created the Teen Wolf series also created Criminal Minds

#what do i do with this information #idk i guess you have it now #maybe it's common knowledge #and i just didn't know because i don't really watch either of those shows #can i also just say i read his name (jeff davis) and my first thought was #'the president of the confederate states of america created Teen Wolf????' #anyway #hannigram #hannibal #college #teen wolf #criminal minds

[ausetkmt]

Get Ready for Fort Liberty: The Pentagon Begins Changing Confederate Base Names | Military.com

The Pentagon has started the process of renaming Fort Bragg and other bases, as well as ships and hundreds of signs and roads, as it plans to scrub ties to the Confederacy from all installations by the start of 2024.

William LaPlante, the undersecretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, directed all Department of Defense organizations to implement this week the recommendations handed down by the Naming Commission, an independent panel created by Congress and charged with reviewing and replacing the names, according to a press release.

It's a heavy undertaking that includes new names for nine Army bases -- Bragg will become Fort Liberty -- two Navy ships and upward of 1,000 other items located on America's military installations. But Brig. Gen. Pat Ryder, the Pentagon's press secretary, told reporters Wednesday he was optimistic it could all be done within the year.

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"I think we are confident, you know, each of the services has clear instructions in terms of what it is that they need to focus on, and where the secretary is confident that the services are and will continue to take that seriously," he said.

Ryder did not have an updated figure on what it would cost to take on all of the recommendations from the Naming Commission. The latest estimate from the group, released this past September, was a total of $62.5 million.

Katherine Kuzminski, a senior fellow at the Center for a New American Security think tank who researches military culture, told Military.com on Friday that the DoD has dealt with renaming operations in the past.

In 2018, then-Defense Secretary Jim Mattis announced that the U.S. Pacific Command would become the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, a shift that required changes ranging from signs to stationery.

Kuzminski said that was accomplished in a relatively short period of time. She added that senior leaders in the military can also start referring to those Army bases by their new names right now to help make them commonplace.

"You do have to think about all of the details such as who owns what signage or when exits on interstates will be changed," Kuzminski said. "But we can start referring to these installations like Fort Liberty by these new names and it can get at what the Naming Commission was doing, which was changing the culture."

Kuzminski said it's possible cost estimates could go up as the Pentagon starts to unravel how involved the renaming and replacing process is.

Department of Defense officials began to reckon with the military's long history of honoring namesakes tied to the rebel army that fought in the Civil War following George Floyd's murder at the hands of police, which subsequently sparked nationwide anti-racism protests.

The Naming Commission was established in the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act and began submitting its first report cataloging those Confederate-linked names on military bases in May 2022. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin accepted the commission's recommendations this last September.

The group identified nine Army bases, including Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Fort Benning, Georgia, which are both named for Confederate officers.

They recommended Benning be renamed Fort Moore, after Lt. Gen. Hal Moore, who led men during the Vietnam War, and his wife Julia. The cost of renaming all of those bases will come to around $21 million, by the Naming Commission's estimates.

Additionally, the Navy identified the USS Chancellorsville, named after a Civil War battle with a Confederate victory, and the USNS Maury, named after Matthew Fontaine Maury, who left the Navy to sail for the Confederacy, according to the Pentagon. The commission did not provide new name recommendations for those vessels.

The commission also identified Confederate officers recognized on campus at West Point and the U.S. Naval Academy, which will cost an estimated $450,000 to replace.

The largest amount of assets would be various roads, signs, buildings and street names throughout the Pentagon's portfolio, which would account for nearly $41 million of the cost.

Editor’s note: The Pentagon said in a Jan. 5 press release that The Confederate Memorial at Arlington National Cemetery was being disassembled. A spokesman for Arlington National Cemetery contacted Military.com after publication to say that the information provided by the Department of Defense was incorrect. A paragraph reporting that detail has been removed from the story. A plan for the removal of the monument is still being developed, the spokesman said.

#Get Ready for Fort Liberty: The Pentagon Begins Changing Confederate Base Names #base name changes #us military base #us military base name changes

[birdsongvelvet]

There was a stabbing yesterday that was so bad the kid needed to be taken by helicopter to hospital at the school that made me decide I was quitting teaching, I ain’t surprised unfortunately.

#not an inner city poor school at all but one in a notoriously racist rural suburb #this school had just changed their team name from rebels and they used to use the confederate flag… in Canada

[vixvaporub]

If a vampire told me they were apart of the confederate army or plantation owner or any other racist shit, right then and there I'll be formulating a plan for them to be crisped up by the sun

#was thinking of a lot of vampire media #and how there are 3 vampire media that i can name that have characters who were confederate soldiers #and i dont remember there being any backlash against these characters... like what??? #like why werent these characters immediately thrown into the sun #why were these characters love interests of the mc of 2 of the shows im thinking about

[ayumistudies]

if I see/hear one more dipshit conservative saying "b-b-but the democrats were the ones in favor of slavery!!!!!! they're the real racists!!!!" as if the political platforms of 1865 are some sort of "gotcha" against progressive policies in 2022 i might fucking explode

#please somebody overhaul the history education in this country #they're so obsessed with the NAMES of the political parties but entirely ignore the actual platforms associated with those names??? #like who are we seeing touting confederate flags today? pretty sure it's not progressives lmfao #of course they probably know this but need to lie through their teeth in order to 'look good' #ANYWAY i hate when people have takes on history that involve exactly zero nuance or depth beyond surface level

[gold-wolf-soldier13]

I am once again regretting they ever made the vampire diaries into a tv series I’m so tired of hearing how horribly that stupid show did my favorite fictional couple

#once again begging people to just read the books #at least up until the fifth one that when it kinda starts getting wild #elena gilbert is that bitch and I’m begging people to put some respect on her name #I remember being so excited for this show and when I watched the first episode I was absolutely crushed #they did her so dirty #stefan and elena are a good couple actually I promise #even better the salavtore brothers aren’t fucking confederates in the books!!!

[knifebucket]

the glorious sons are so funny to me bc S.O.S. is literally a word for word recounting of the beginning of the opioid epidemic in the hollers of coal country appalachia but the band is from a city in ontario with a population of 100k

[marioclash]

drive to georgia to look at an empty field where a bunch of people died of dysentery

#highly simplifying what actually happened #okay here. we. go. #the andersonville prison was a confederate pow camp during the last 14 months of the civil war #its commander henry wirz was tried and executed for war crimes #the prison was overcrowded it lacked water and food and had VERY unsanitary conditions #of the 45000 union prisoners held there almost 13000 died from diseases like scurvy and dysentery #also im REALLY not putting reblogs on this because i dont want the shit i just wrote in the tags to be rebloggable #considering the historical stuff i named dropped i dont want some weirdos in those tags finding it #i just want to do stupid comedy #but under my breath in the tags

[wisekidperfection]

No More Military Posts Named after Confederates

  A commission mandated by Congress recently spent a year traveling to military installations, meeting with interested groups, and sifting through thousands of suggestions to rename posts, ships, buildings, streets, and anything else the Defense Department has named in honor of the Confederacy. In March 2023, the commission recommend the renaming of nine Army posts: Fort Hood, Texas; Fort Bragg,…

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#Forts named after Confederates renamed

[ausetkmt]

Boycotting Adidas and Gap in the Name of Kanye West Is Misguided

Kanye West has a new pronouncement: He is done with corporate America.

“It’s time for me to go it alone,” Ye explained in an interview with Bloomberg that was published Monday. “It’s fine. I made the companies money. The companies made me money. We created ideas that will change apparel forever. Like the round jacket, the foam runner, the slides that have changed the shoe industry. Now it’s time for Ye to make the new industry. No more companies standing in between me and the audience.”

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West is referring to Adidas—with whom he has an arrangement to produce his sneakers that expires in 2026—and Gap Inc., which is under contract to produce his apparel until 2030.

"They my new baby mamas,” the rapper now legally known as Ye added. “I guess we’re just going to have to co-parent those 350s.”

In recent months, West has called Adidas out for allegedly “blatantly copying” his designs—notably with the AdiFOM Q and the Adilette 22. As for the Gap, the rap game’s David Koresh claims the clothing company was copying looks from his Yeezy Gap Engineered by Balenciaga line.

“No one should be held in that position where people can steal from them and say we’re just paying you to shut up,” West explained to the outlet. “That destroys innovation. That destroys creativity. That’s what destroyed Nikola Tesla.” I don’t think that’s quite what led to Tesla’s demise, but Yeezus also complained about being left out of business meetings. He posted screengrabs of text exchanges with various executives on Instagram.

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Rich people fight all of the time about money. Why are some of us pretending this is some kind of civil rights issue worthy of a boycott?

Last week, Sean Combs, who I still prefer to call Puffy, wrote on Instagram: “Since the era of Run-DMC, @Adidas has always used Hip Hop to build its brand and make billions off of our culture. BUT WE ARE MORE THAN JUST CONSUMERS NOW, WE’RE THE OWNERS. @KanyeWest and YEEZY are the reason Adidas is relevant to culture. WE KNOW OUR VALUE!”

The post was accompanied by a screenshot of an apparent text exchange with our distressed fashion king/doll. “I’m done wearing Adidas products until they make this right!! We have to support each other!! Everybody repost this please!!” Puff added.

Separately, Swizz Beatz wrote: “I usually mind my business but this is DEAD WRONG! If we let them do this to @kanyewest it will happen to us also! This man created this groundbreaking innovation and it should be respected as a creative !”

“YE is only asking for his work to be respected and not stolen that’s not crazy to me !! We not buying these !!!!!!!!!!!!” he continued. “@adidas you’re supposed to be original do the correct thing please !!!”

Of all the issues to bring attention to, this ain’t it.

Once again, Ye is painting a picture of persecution when the reality is that he has been lobbying these corporate giants to give him billions of dollars and carte blanche to “create.”

Details of West’s contract are unknown, but Bloomberg reported that Yeezy made $191 million in royalties from the Adidas partnership in 2020.

Kanye made a choice to sign a contract with those enormous brands. It presumably allowed them to do whatever they want—including taking some of his creative direction and applying it elsewhere within the product line. They want to make money and since his affiliation alone arguably saved the brand, they’re going to target the customer as much as possible.

As I recall, after complaining about the major fashion houses ignoring him, he was happy to sign with them.

In an interview with Angie Martinez in 2014, he announced his deal with Adidas and said, “I’m going to be the 2Pac of product.” I still don’t know what that means, but he tried to do it on his own then without as much success. Then he retooled, used other people’s money and infrastructure, and now has an estimated worth of more than $1 billion.

And he seems to know that. Regardless of what he said this week, last week he suggested an interest in partnering with Authentic Brands Group, whose roster of brands includes Forever 21, Barneys New York, JCPenney, and Reebok. Ye also told Bloomberg he’s working with former Adidas executive Eric Liedtke, who now operates the plant-based clothing label Unless Collective, to help establish his empire.

Good for him, but I’m not sure starting a corporation is the best way to cut ties with corporate America.

By now, Kanye has an established pattern where in the event of a perceived transgression, he uses his Instagram page to malign people with insults and accusations—and then deletes everything. If anyone knows this, it’s his estranged wife and her now-ex-boyfriend. If he can go at the mother of his kids like that, close business partners are certainly not safe. I’m less inclined to treat major corporations as individuals, but there is something very Trumpian about his approach. He has a built in audience/cult that will fall for it, but this comes across as the frustrations of a manipulative micromanager who probably slowed down production (see his perpetually delayed and disjointed album releases).

Sidebar: I love how he ignores all of the times he’s been accused of copying.

Once again, Ye is painting a picture of persecution when the reality is that he has been lobbying these corporate giants to give him billions of dollars and carte blanche to “create.” He got what he wanted and they got what they paid for.

I don’t back Trump supporters with their boycotts—he shouldn’t have signed that contract if he wasn’t cool with the terms. If anything, all of these complaints have made me want to buy Adidas even more, just to spite him. Unless Beyoncé tells me something bad about the company, I’ll pass on the boycott.

I understand Puffy and Swizz want to support their fellow rich friend, but this feels like civil rights-themed hustle with beats. Sorry, not sorry, and thanks but no thanks.

Update: Kanye has since severed his relationship with Gap, announcing on Thursday (9/15) that he’s terminating his partnership with the Gap because of “substantial noncompliance.”

In a statement, his lawyer Nicholas Gravante said West was left with “no choice but to terminate their collaboration” because the retailer allegedly breached their partnership by not opening branded Yeezy stores and distributing his apparel as originally planned.

“Gap’s substantial noncompliance with its contractual obligations has been costly,” Gravante wrote. “Ye will now promptly move forward to make up for lost time by opening Yeezy retail stores.”

Let that be a lesson to all: Rich people will always be fine so long as they complain to their lawyers rather than IG.

#yeezie trash #boycott yeezie for confederate jackets #Slavery was not a choice kanye #kanye is asleep #Boycotting Adidas and Gap in the Name of Kanye West Is Misguided #get him help please #Gap #Adidas #fashion market #lies and games in corporate america