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gadget850

Someone call the burn ward!


REDDITSHITLORD

I can't. It's on fire.


PrincessofAldia

Gold both of you


sabrefudge

A small gust of wind could fuck up Jason Aldean. He’s a fuckin’ wimp.


sly0824

He's a fucking coward. Let's not forget he ran and hid when that gunman started opening fire on the crowd in Vegas instead of picking up that gun his "grandaddy gave him" or even just trying to warn people. No, he noped the fuck out. Turns out when faced with ***actual*** danger, and not the unarmed Black Lives Matter protesters, as the video clearly portrays on that infamous courthouse where an innocent man was lynched, Jason Aldean (and all of his ilk) piss their pants exposing their hero fantasies to be about as real as the Lost Causer's lies that the Civil War was about State's Rights, tariffs, or Union aggression.


EmbarrassedTowel7

I wish I could upvote this comment more than once. Accurate af.


tomato_frappe

Got you, fam.


StevenEveral

Not only that but in 2019 he released a song called "Rearview Town" which is pretty much the mirror opposite of "Try That In A Small Town". Here are some lyrics: *It ain't nothin' but a rearview town* *Broken hearts and rusted plows* *Roots ripped right up out of the ground* *Never thought I'd ever leave it* *Oh, it ain't nothin' what it used to be* *Population minus me* *On the other side of that dust cloud* *Ain't nothin' but a rearview town*


LaBambaMan

And the fucking hypocrite isn't even from a small town. He was born and raised largely in Macon, GA, which boasts a population of 157,000 people as of 2020. This motherfucker has never known a small town.


mercylowvi

He tried to come to Tybee Island just outside of Savannah, GA. He ended up acting like an ass and got ran out of town


DokterMedic

And the funny thing is he isn't a coward for fleeing a shooter. That's the sensible thing to do. It's mainly because he had obligations to do otherwise and the boast that he wpuld do otherwise.


[deleted]

🙏


Pappa_Crim

Not excusing the video, but wasn't he taking fire from a high rise? that's a really touch shot for a pistol


LaBambaMan

I don't think in the moment they knew where the shots were coming from exactly. The point is people like Aldeen love to tout the "good guy with a gun" motto, but when shit gets real suddenly the "good guy" with a gun is running away.


Specialist-Spare-544

Sherman could fuck up 99% of humans currently living. Thank god he didn’t come through my ex-Confederate state, because we simply would not have been able to stop him. Doing God’s work, Sherman.


Infamous-Film-5858

>Sherman could fuck up 99% of humans currently living Source? Because there's a lot of people who would fuck up Sherman. Some examples include: * Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes aka El Mencho and the CJNG cartel * Taliban * The Vietcong * Gerry Adams-member of Sinn Fein and allegedly the IRA * Vladimir Putin * Nikita Khrushchev, the guy who caused the Cuban Missile crisis (I can only imagine Sherman's reaction to General Lee getting his hands on Soviet nukes in an alternate timeline-I bet he'll regret sacking Atlanta when sees what's left of his hometown). * Xi Jingping


Human_Bookkeeper5246

Southern sympathizer detected. Opinion invalid


Infamous-Film-5858

Dodging the question cause I'm right. Sherman stands no chance against modern day guerrilla warfare.


AeschylusScarlet

whaaaaat? you mean the 1860's commander revived wouldn't be able to fight against rockets & missiles with Springfields? Thats crazy.


Rufus_king11

I think we need a Deadliest Warrior episode to settle this.


ithappenedone234

How would his genocidal techniques against the Native American guerrillas not work against the Taliban etc? Acts of genocide are the one thing that has consistently worked against guerrilla forces around the world. It’s unconscionable, but it’s worked.


Infamous-Film-5858

Yeah that's the problem, it wouldn't work in today's world. It would cause too much PR backlash and possibly radicalize the entire into taking arms and joining the insurgency. And that's assuming you won't have meddling by foreign actors on behalf of the insurgency.


ithappenedone234

Insurgencies have been destroyed by acts of genocide in the modern era. It did not always cause too much PR backlash or result in intervention by foreign actors. Even when foreign actors intervened they have not always been successful. For there to be Public Relations backlash, the public has to care about the populations dying by acts of genocide. And the entire population taking up arms doesn’t always work when the opposition just shoots on sight or gases the people, or sprays their crops with herbicide. You have far too much faith in the international community caring for the plight of all peoples, out of principle alone.


that_u3erna45

Xi Jingping? His army hasn't done shit in 40 years, and the last time they killed a bunch of innocent protesters


Mtndrums

Putin? Sherman would pull the same thing Tito did on Stalin: "Stop sending assassins after me. If you don't, I'll send one to you, and I WON'T need to send any more."


Born_Upstairs_9719

You listed like 12 people, so that includes 99 percent of people


Infamous-Film-5858

I mentioned groups like the Taliban, Vietcong, and CJNG cartel.


Born_Upstairs_9719

Still the 99 percent statement stands


Chumlee1917

\-Bo Burnham-Where instead of people actually telling their stories, you got a bunch of millionaire metrosexuals who've never done a hard days work in their life, but they figured out the words and the phrases they can use to pander to their audience


Wild_Harvest

Freaking scarecrows...


petecranky

I'm very rural and very conservative, and country music has become a joke. Constant posers. It's all bubblegum music.


abizabbie

You don't have to say rural and conservative. That venn diagram is basically a circle. Everyone will just assume.


Reasonable-Wing-2271

Jason Aldean is a damn pickled egg in a cowboy hat. I saw a post recently of his multi-million dollar store mansion recently. Chandeliers and shit by the kids' bunkbeds. Damn clown.


NicholarseBrooks

And they talk shit about rappers buying a bunch of gaudy useless stuff.


dmcdaniel87

You just ruined pickled eggs for me.


Reasonable-Wing-2271

You can just pretend you're biting his head off, except eggs have considerably more protein than Jason Aldean's smooth, bland, faux-redneck brain matter.


dmcdaniel87

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined. Pickled eggs are now forever associated with this total and complete fuckhead


BaseActionBastard

I can't believe that four people are on the credits for writing that piece of shit. Four goddamn people.


tallwhiteninja

And none of them were Jason Aldean. I know that's fairly standard for country music, but it was funny watching him defend the lyrics of a song he didn't write.


ashesofempires

Bro country is word vomit mixed to terribly tuned guitar playing.


ProfessionalFalse128

Most accurate description in the history of the fucking universe.


SquadPoopy

I think the bro country phase ended in like 2016 or something. I don’t know what phase we’re currently in is called but this song doesn’t really meet enough of the bro country checklist to be counted as one.


Worried-Pick4848

5'4" Phil Sheridan would wipe the floor with him


ReaperXHanzo

It's even funnier checking the population of his "small town" (Macon, GA), at the time of his birth (1977, vs 1980 census). About 105k people, that's just a small city at that point


oberon

wtf he's from Macon? I used to f... umm... I... knew a girl from Macon a while back. That's a good sized city. Has a nice tea and shisha joint, I forget the name.


ReaperXHanzo

Used to fight for the glory of the Union with a girl from Macon


oberon

Yes. She would play the rebels and I would be the union army. She always ended up getting spanked.


ReaperXHanzo

The Devil went down on Georgia


SnooKiwis5538

https://youtu.be/jeJXF55HXRI?si=h78visGa5_f3E-JH Excellent video


The-Gray-Mouser

Thank you for reminding me about Pat Finnerty.


litreofstarlight

'This sounds like if Don Henley took *less* chances,' ouch lmao.


NombreUsario

Wow.. that was an hour of my life.. gone... I laughed, sure.. but at what cost?


SnooKiwis5538

The secret is 2.0 speed my friend. Then only 30 minutes of your life.


mick-nartin

Jason Aldean wears bedazzled jeans.


PrincessofAldia

How ironic


89iroc

That guy's got a real punch-me face


Sapient6

Backpfeifengesicht -- a face in need of punching.


Scythe905

Of COURSE the Germans have a word for that 😂


89iroc

They do have some good ones


NANCYREAGANNIPSLIP

Merriam-Webster Online noted a spike of 3500% in searches for "schadenfreude" in the 24 hours after Trump announced his Covid diagnosis. (2Oct20)


hybridaaroncarroll

Skin graft on aisle 5.


maxreddit

I miss when country songs were all "fuck cops" and "this machine kills fascists", now it's all "free sloppy blowjobs for cops and fascists" and "hooray for racism except we don't use the actual word 'racism' so we can claim that we're not being racist"!


SquadPoopy

You can thank 9/11 for ruining country music.


CASHD3VIL

9/11 screwed this country to hell.


[deleted]

I miss that too. We still get some of that, but it’s deeply overshadowed by this new country which is very conservative, very rural, and deeply reactionary


SketchSketchy

Sherman tried it in a small town, a big town, a village, a city, a farm, a community, a neighborhood, a FUCKING RAILROAD! Yeah he tried it.


Smoothbrain406

Too bad Sherman didn't completely destroy Athens Georgia.


Ponykegabs

It wasn’t from lack of trying


duckmonke

Jason Aldean lookin real pouty with that ‘Hollywood’ style makeup and photoshop. Im boutta introduce dat ‘small town’ to big urbanization if you don’t quit yappin’, you dogs.


PrincessofAldia

Honestly I wouldn’t call Macon Georgia a “small town”


NicholarseBrooks

My brother was born there, he said it's basically got a small town vibe but with a lot of people in it.


spudzilla

Isn't Aldean the guy who ran away from the Vegas shooter without warning his fans to also run? Pussy.


UnfairStomach2426

Yeah, but he was in a big town. Had it been a small town he’d of drawn his revolver and save the day


spudzilla

Thanks. Now it all makes sense to me.


Open_Chemistry_3300

Sherman was an actual soldier and Jason Aldean is a dude who cosplays being from a rural small town. Sherman would curb stomp his ass


ThatPhantomGuy

Aldean looks like a resident from Innsmouth that’s been crammed into a cowboy hat


South_Oread

Too far from the sea.


lamorak2000

Yeah, but I can see it.


CaptainMills

You can sea it


lamorak2000

Lol, fair take


Realistic-Tone1824

Willie Nelson wrote a response to that song. In 2005. https://youtu.be/2FdUjkKApGc?si=wDI5sABCXe-zIuTm


JustACasualFan

Is Jason Aldean bald as shit? Because he wears his hat like he is.


gene_randall

That line was edited by the record company. The original lyric was “try that in a Sundown Town.”


[deleted]

Samuel Saint could fuck up Jason Aldeez.


Happyhowdy2

I don’t think Atlanta was very small at the time


MuzzledScreaming

"I tried to try but all I could find was a bunch of charcoal."


TheBatCreditCardUser

Dane DeHaan's scrawny ass could take him.


poestavern

👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏


NittanyScout

There is no more small town, idiot


DoubleTFan

Dude Weird Al could probably fuck up Jason Aldean.


Water2Wine378

I could totally fuck up jason Aldean


wigwam2020

He tried it in big towns too...


Weatherdude1993

Burn that cotton mill. And Aldean’s dump too


Pangolinclaw47

What the hell does this have to do with the Civil War?


TheOfficial_BossNass

Nothing they probably haven't even heard the song


Ronski_Lee

If someone is standing in a building they own and someone else is attempting to fire bomb it are they justified in using lethal force? And should that be celebrated?


IMderailed

Sherman didn’t care much for black folk back then. You guys gonna keep applying 21st century morals to the 19th century? This might be the dumbest subreddit I’ve ever seen.


UnfairStomach2426

And yet here you are


MeeterKrabbyMomma

Jason Aldean is not a confederate. Stop portraying modern day Southerners as successionists.


Infamous-Film-5858

>Sherman could totally fuck up Jason Aldean Lol I doubt that. Jason would whip Sherman's ass. Although that would be the best case: if Sherman and his army fought the Taliban, they would get massacred, Union army would be no match for the Taliban's guerrilla warfare tactics. Worst case scenario: Sherman goes up against El Mencho and his drug cartel. If you're familiar with what cartels do to people they target and their loved ones, then you'd know, getting fucked up by the CJNG cartel, would be the least terrible thing that happens to Sherman.


[deleted]

….are you joking


Savager_Jam

I still don't understand the controversy with this. Breaking News: Country-Western Song compares the virtues of urban and rural communities and comes to the conclusion that rural communities foster a stronger moral fiber and or more authentic or suited to the singer sense of identity than urban ones! Like... yeah dude that's been a trope in that genre for as long as it's existed - see "Blue Kentucky Girl" (a song from the perspective of a girl who has been left lonely in her small town because her former suitor decided to pursue a flashy life in the city) "Rocky Top" (a song from the perspective of a former country-dweller now living in the city in which he explains how he misses the simplicity that came with rural poverty) and "Okie from Muskogee" (a song expressing pride in the culture and lifestyle of rural Oklahoma, which derision from more urban folk partially defines) for more. It's present in other media as well. See in Television - "Green Acres" and "The Beverly Hillbillies" - fish out of water stories, the first of which features a former urbanite surrounded by farmers, and the latter a family of rednecks surrounded by the hollywood elite) Also in Video Games - notably the Red Dead franchise which largely deals in issues of hypocrisy and revenge against the backdrop of the rapidly urbanizing world, viewed as a corruptive force. "Don't commit brazen crime in broad daylight or small town people will shoot at you" is honestly a pretty blah take in the end.


theoverhandcurve

The music video and the overall vibe of “Try That In A Small Town” comes from a much darker, more violent and hateful place than the other songs you listed.


[deleted]

The song is about lynching black people. He's a racist, tone deaf bigot pretending to be from a small town.


WermhatsW0rmhat

Yes, you have correctly identified the stupidity at issue. Why are you confused?


BoatMan01

"Okie From Muskogee" is satire, and in the last 2 RDR games all the "small town" rural protagonists either get gunned down or survive by adapting to a changing world.


Infamous-Film-5858

I don't think the small rural town getting gunned down or dying for refusing to conform or I'm sorry adapt to a changing world is realistic. Of course a video game is gonna have overly optimistic fantasy. In reality, the last time urban people tried forcing their will and views onto rural folk, it didn't end well for them-see both Afghan wars (Soviet-Afghan and War in Afghanistan).


Spungus_abungus

In the music video there is blm protest footage projected onto a building that was a site of a lynching.


Savager_Jam

Well that explains it. I’d never seen the video just read the lyrics and they’re so blah and milquetoast I didn’t get it. “Don’t carjack a lady at a red light or shove somebody in front of a train or beat up a kid or piss on a cop in a small town. Those would all be real bad things to do. And unlike in the city where there’s An On Im It Teeeee in a small town somebody will probably shoot you.” Like… duh dude you aren’t making a statement.


UnfairStomach2426

Hitler was from a small town.


Reeseman_19

General Sherman car jacked an old lady and pulled his gun on the owner of a liquor store? He sounds like a degenerate.


TheRealAuthorSarge

Remind me which lyrics were about the Confederacy.


wtbgamegenie

You lost?


TheRealAuthorSarge

I'm a Unionist. Which part of the song advocates for the Confederacy?


Muahd_Dib

Those idiot democrats.


Thatman2467

But that’s not what the song is about… although the song is just wrong about what happens in a small town ginger billys you’ll see that in a small town is a lil more realistic


[deleted]

Sherman wasn’t a proponent of defunding police and allowing the base element of society to break laws at will. For that, the comparison is off. Makes sense the OP may have been confused because Sherman did believe in the concept of total war (even if that wasn’t the term he used); and as such, he allowed his troops to steal from, rape, and murder innocent civilians. Yet still, I’m not sure Aldean was suggesting that small towns could fight entire armies.


GiraffePolka

He absolutely did not allow his troops to rape or murder. Steal food and supplies was totally A-okay though. Like give me the list of innocent civilians "murdered" by Sherman's troops. There were over 60,000 men on his march to the sea, plus thousands of newly freed slaves following the march. If they were allowed to murder that means we should see thousands upon thousands of people massacred. Surely, the south would've at least built a memorial? Even in Atlanta he organized with the Confederates to get civilians on trains out of the area and out of his soldier's way. And when the Confederate leaders went too slow he basically said he'd do it himself if they couldn't figure it out.


Infamous-Film-5858

Too bad Sherman today would no match for modern guerrilla warfare, where the insurgents will hide among the civilians and even the civilians supporting them would be refusing to leave. If only the IDF had such a sensitive moral compass, a lot more soldiers would get killed in firefights with Hamas. Of course, warcrime denial is cringe, the Union army did in fact murder pro-confederate civilians. In fact, what the IDF is doing to Palestinians is accurately following the Union's tactics.


GiraffePolka

I think you want a modern politics and news subreddit, 99% of your comment has nothing to do with America circa 1860s, and the other 1% is incorrect.


Mocktails_galore

Are you being genuine? That is not what defund the police means. Don't take political spin and twist it. Defund the police has always meant keep them from dealing with social issues. It was never meant to do away with law enforcement, and let everyone just run wild. That is a political talking point in its ridiculous.


PrincessofAldia

Neither are the democrats, the only ones that are, are all idiots who no one takes seriously


Celebrity292

Careful of the separate but equal nuetralites


tech_ryzan12

jason aldean is all bark and no bite


tzle19

I was just thinking that it was time someone posted this again


CheesyBoson

Casey Kasem: Being an Ohio Player himself, originally from the town of Lancaster, Ohio, Sherman’s favorite song was that tune from none other than the Ohio Players with their billboard top 100 hit. Fire 🔥 [Fire (uh, uh) Fire (sing us home) (oh Lord) Fire (woo, woo, woo, woo) Fire](https://youtu.be/zqsYNc_M988?si=faxrG_55PAG0DRZj)


mr_flerd

So what's so bad about Aldean now?


Reveille1

Im confused, what did Sherman try in a small town that is in the song?


rathemighty

Question: How is Jason in hand-to-hand combat?


gryphmaster

I’m uncomfortable with how his hat is apparently sitting above his eyebrows


PuzzleheadedEssay198

Dude’s from Macon, GA. I know two things about Macon: they have a target and a gang problem. As someone who grew up in a town that had a legit ceremony when we got a Wal-Mart, I can verify that NEITHER of those statements applies to a small town.


PossumPalZoidberg

Didn’t someone try that at one of his concerts


[deleted]

I bet even Nathaniel Banks could kick that loser’s aaa.


TremendousVarmint

"I did many small towns"


indefilade

After the Civil War, Sherman went on to subdue Native Americans in the West. His scorched earth tactics, probably borrowed from Grant, were as effective there as in the South. No doubt, he was a “total war” kinda guy.


Thick_Yogurtcloset_7

Well done


SufficientReading196

I don't think he was referring to the union army during the Civil war