No one is pretending that they weren’t most interested in continuing slavery, but the main concern was that the federal government was no longer equally representative of the south. The fear of losing their slaves was simply the manifestation of that concern; the foundation of their confederacy was preserving states…

That’s a vast over-simplification of what happened. The south was indeed motivated in a large part by their desire to keep their slaves against a republican majority they felt was set on taking that right away, but the north wasn’t on some abolitionist quest to rid the south of their slaves. The union was mainly…

I don’t think anyone is arguing that it wasn’t one of the components, or at least I’m not. But I think the idea that slavery alone caused the Civil War is the BS that our education system was spewing for years to make it seem like the North was “good” and liked black people and the South was “bad”.

Most people in the Union didn’t give a shit about abolishing slavery though.

It sort of seems like there should be, I don’t know, some sort of a blog that they run that has information about politics. (pause)

No it didn’t, the civil war was an issue over states rights. The south felt that the north had gained enough power to overrule their interests and decided to split and form the confederacy. Slavery was a component to what drove the south to leave the union, but it wasn’t the cause and it wasn’t why the union fought…

“had the South not gotten all uppity”

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It’s funny because people act like the Disney version they learned in school was true, when it reality it wasn’t a nice as everyone was led to believe.

Civil War wasn’t about slavery, it was about keeping the union together. Yes they rebelled due to the (incorrent) assumption the government was going to take the slaves away, but ultimately slaves we just a resource to the north. Fun fact: Republican wanted all mean free, democrats wanted slavery to stay. Oh how times…

A shakedown. Rattle the NK cage, and charge Seoul out the nose for THAAD.

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I do not understand it ( i do but do not at the same time). If this word is wrong, what is next? Should bbc change their name because its also means big black C*ck? And should we stop using the word yellow or fat.

Ah, PC gaming getting mainstream.

I OWN.... 1 2 SWITCH!!!!

As an original COD player who seen where it was heading and didn’t like it...yes it had to do with the future setting. But to be fair it also had to do with the fact that they locked the remastered behind IW, most likely due to its high demand as compared to IW.

1) While there are true sociopaths devoid of remorse and lacking any kind of empathy, the circumstances of a person’s life - determined well before that person is even born - will typically have a greater impact on that person’s decisions, attitude, thoughts, personality, income, social class, etc., than anything they…

Honestly, this is the best comment I could hope to get for this piece.

Alien day being on 4/26 is goddamn stupid. It should fall on the 426th day of the year, dummies.

No. There is a line item in NAFTA that allows the US to withdraw by giving 6 months notice to the other signatories. No congressional approval needed.