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| Make the Confederacy's Defeat a National Holiday; 150 years ago this week, Robert E. Lee surrendered to the Union. Let's celebrate it—every year. | |
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| Drudge X | Apr 13 2016, 01:58 AM Post #21 |
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So why do leftists celebrate May Day? |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| longbich | Apr 13 2016, 03:12 AM Post #22 |
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Yeehaa! You've still goddit Tik! Great post. Give 'er. |
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The Bird of Time has but a little way to fly- And Lo, the Bird is on the wing. "Omar" | |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Apr 13 2016, 06:18 AM Post #23 |
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And guess what? It worked What Lincoln did was unusual. The Romans, the Mongols, the countries that conquered the Americas, they put the hammer down on rebels. Lots of executions, lots of repression The south was let off easy, and they tried to get away with a lot of crap. They murdered ex-slaves, murdered white republicans, installed Jim Crow, some even kept slaves years after the war |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Apr 13 2016, 07:06 AM Post #24 |
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Not being an advocate of it, just pointing out the different ways nations dealt with rebellions. Lincoln chose an unusual path, forgiveness and reintegration back into the fold. The south showed a lack of appriciation and class by acting all bitter and being sore losers |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 13 2016, 07:11 AM Post #25 |
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Get real. The South showed its appreciation by providing the cannon fodder for the Emprie's war throughout the twentieth century. Perhaps you should get the progressives to place a platform calling for another civil war? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Attaburnsinhell | Apr 13 2016, 07:59 AM Post #26 |
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You get real Read up on reconstruction and the war between the kkk and the radical republicans If you lose a fight and the guy that beats you says ''do you give up?'' and you say yeah, and he lets you up, then you be a man and accept defeat. The south were given mercy and forgiveness and they acted like big babies ever since. Get over it |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 13 2016, 08:06 AM Post #27 |
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Perhaps your should get the Democratic Party to run on a platform of a second civil war? That should help to get their agenda passed? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Deleted User | Apr 13 2016, 08:08 AM Post #28 |
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Here in the South I often hear the Civil War referred to as 'The War of Northern Aggression'. Pretty funny for a war started with the South firing the first shots. They started it, but the North damn sure finished it. |
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| 70-101 | Apr 13 2016, 09:20 AM Post #29 |
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I have a historic civil war battlefield virtually in my backyard - the first time a train came under fire is less than 500 ft from my back door. The battle of Balls Bluff and the battle of Bull Run are both just a few miles away - and that's just three of the more famous encounters.
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| Drudge X | Apr 13 2016, 09:21 AM Post #30 |
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Have you considered my advice? You should move to Portland if you loathe the South so much. |
| Kate Steinle was separated from her family permanently but leftists didn't seem to mind. | |
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| estonianman | Apr 13 2016, 10:06 AM Post #31 |
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Lincoln was as bad a president as FDR - in the same way he dragged out a war (when there shouldn't have been one) FDR dragged out a recession and then let a war happen after poking and prodding the japanese. |
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| estonianman | Apr 13 2016, 10:07 AM Post #32 |
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It's worth noting that only about 6% of the south actually owned any slaves. The north could have bought all of the slaves and freed them for a lot cheaper and a lot less lives. |
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| Opinionated | Apr 13 2016, 10:08 AM Post #33 |
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That's assuming that the slave holders would have been willing to sell, which I highly doubt. |
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| Tsalagi | Apr 13 2016, 10:11 AM Post #34 |
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Actually, the number rises to about 10% but that's only really including the large plantations where you might have a few dozen, some having upwards of a 100, doesn't take into account a shopowner who made have bought one, a small farmer with perhaps a family if he was lucky, etc, etc.. But it's also a sure bet that over 75% of them thought that the only good thing a black man was good for was to be a slave. So your answer would be to perpetuate the concept that the southern slaves were property so the north could buy them...and what message would that have sent to the southern slaves, that we were property to begin with, we just got bought out by a more benevolent master? The South's whole position was that slavery was their "peculiar institution" and they didn't want to end it, in fact, they wanted to extend it out into the western territories Edited by Tsalagi, Apr 13 2016, 10:12 AM.
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| estonianman | Apr 13 2016, 10:17 AM Post #35 |
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I doubt it. Slaves destroy the job market unless you are a business owner or highly skilled. |
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| Deleted User | Apr 13 2016, 12:22 PM Post #36 |
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Considered it and used it appropriately; the other night I ran out of toilet paper. Besides, I did respond to it at that time; sorry you missed it. |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 13 2016, 12:25 PM Post #37 |
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That's gross. I can't believe you would use your phone to wipe your ass. |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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| Deleted User | Apr 13 2016, 12:27 PM Post #38 |
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Get your mind out of the gutter, AI. I printed the advice first, and used the paper, with drudgex's name right on top To blow my nose ... |
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| Coast2coast | Apr 13 2016, 04:26 PM Post #39 |
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Your idea is that the North should have purchased human beings? Did I read that right? |
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| Harambe4Trump | Apr 13 2016, 04:29 PM Post #40 |
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What's wrong with his logic? Why do you celebrate the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Americans? |
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Skipping leg day is the equivalent of a woman having an abortion. You're ashamed of it, and it was probably unnecessary. #MAGA #wallsnotwars | |
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