• Arotrios@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    This meme brings up many questions, like who inflicted that extra 2.7% of casualties on Grant? And was Lee using necromancy on .5% of his troops? And why has data analysis ruined my appreciation for a good meme?

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      1 year ago

      Not sure you’re reading this right. This is percentage of casualties inflicted/received. It would be very unusual if they mirrored each other.

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        1 year ago

        I’m absolutely sure I’m reading it wrong. In retrospect, probably deliberately, but in my defense, I got completely entranced by the idea of Confederate necromancy… the concept of Lee summoning the dead in a last gasp to save the South is as delicious as Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Slayer.

        And I was am high. Which isn’t a defense, but it makes for one hell of an offense.

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          1 year ago

          “It’s not enough that those secesh bastards enslave the living, now they’re enslaving the dead too!”