• amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    if the zombie apocalypse ever happens, there will be a lot of Black people he owned wanting to play football with his decapitated head

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    this tradition stems for Washington holding a general rank in the British military before rebellion, and the US traditionally never having a rank higher than the one he held in the British military, so when we actually did need those ranks because practicality, they just bumped him up.

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    Holy shit George Washington would hate this policy. He was done being commander in chief! That’s why he stepped down after 2 terms! I get it’s symbolic, but his whole thing regarding the office was “don’t deify me.”

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      Counterpoint. These are military titles and not presidential ones. When Washington left office he wanted his official formal title to return to General and not President. Meaning he would be more okay with this.

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      Which would really explain why he might come back as a zombie. The rage just builds until he pops up out of his grave and shouts, “DID I STUTTER?”

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          And then after he says that, he turns slightly and says, “not that there’s anything bad or wrong about people who struggle with their speech. What I’m saying is, IF YOU HAD TROUBLE HEARING ME, YOU SHOULD’VE TOLD ME AS MUCH IN 1799!”

          “…You named how many cities after me?!”

          “…The Capital?!

          “…And also an entire state?!?

          “Nope, you know what, fine. I am a god. And I am vengeful.

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    I would say that the US is a very weird place, but then I remembered that this

    is the flagship of the British Navy First British Sea Lord. She hasn’t floated for literally 100 years.

    So mostly I guess it’s just that militaries are weird.

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    It’s the year 30,000. God-Emperor George Washington moans to life and leads Earth to war against the rest of the universe.

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      A man reads the news of this break on his shigawire paper. “Huh that sucks,” he says, desensitized. “Still not the worst thing to happen this year” he muses to himself. He turns to get back into the food line, the zombie apocalypse on distant Terra already forgotten.

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    Calling it now, once Trump finds out this exists, he’ll do something to try and supersede that to put him at the top.

    Maybe a 6 star general with the pips arranged like a Star of David.

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    A reanimated body couldn’t be worse at governing than our current administration.

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          Your phrasing there is intentionally misleading.

          The wiki you link discusses 20 people of obviously mixed race, with half? of those likely parentages seeming coercive. ‘Many many’ sounds like dozens.

          I guess you mean that the number is rapes likely far exceeds the number of people conceived from rapes? The wiki also mentions guests expecting sexual gratification from slaves, but not whether or not those expectations were met. “Overseeing” any activity, kind of implies you’re managing said activity, seeing it through to it’s completion. Looking the other way would certainly be complicit, but it’s not the same thing as commanding and ensuring those rapes happened.

          Also, I set the bar intentionally low for zombie Washington. Child rape was the bar. There’s no amount of revision of American history that has lowered Washington to Trump levels of evil yet. And I further wrote couldn’t rape kids with the expectation that zombie dicks probably fall off.

          So anyway, zombie Washington still gets my vote over Trump.