• Carmakazi@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    We need to bring back the 1800s practice of our elected officials actually throwing hands and beating each other senseless with canes, none of this euphemism crap.

    • phdepressed@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      Let’s not glorify that cane beating. Brooks beat Charles Sumner for Sumner’s anti slavery speech in a cowards way where Sumner was unaware and stuck behind a desk when he started.