“The core reason, quite possibly the only reason, the Civil War happened, is because of slavery.”

Plot twist, it was could have been a teacher. That’s why it didn’t match with the students.

Ehhh i’m willing to chalk up the reason he didn’t abolish it in the north to keep the border states in the union more than anything else but you’re not wrong.

Yes it was about the rights of the southern states to enslave people, nothing more nothing less. The south seceded because an abolitionist in the White House who didn’t carry a single slaveholding state(or win the popular vote). This made them realize that the power of the south was ending, and they were afraid.

Exactly.

I’m kind of curious what compromise John Kelly would propose. I mean ignoring all the actual compromises like the 3/5 Compromise, The Missouri Compromise and the Compromise of 1850 (strange how they all have compromise in the name). Would he have us be slaves just on days but we get nights and weekends off?

Look who he lunged at, tho -_- #staywoke now.

The apologists/revisionists coming out of the woodwork to paint Lee and other Confederates as “great men” are going to give me a fucking aneurysm. The core reason, quite possibly the only reason, the Civil War happened, is because of slavery. There was no nuance. There was no gray area. This was literally a (and…

Kelly’s gonna be directing the massacre US civilians within 10 years, either as part of a GOP permanent “majority” government or— if there’s successful small-d democratic realignment in this country—as a white supremacist insurgent commander. This seemingly sudden and seemingly coordinated effort to rehabilitate the…

I’ve never tried, but I don’t think it’s all that easy to buy a gun on the streets of NYC.

I knew 7/11 dude because I bought my Kools or Newports (idiocy of youth) there so I waited through the whole tirade; kinda hid in a corner) trying not to make eye contact feeling sick to my stomach in case he was gonna hit the guy or worse. Lol, planning to wait him out and payphone the police.

“I like Africans who weren’t captured... and, you know, brought here.”

Her fucking line of sight is, though.

How dare you! The investigation of the motive of the Las Vegas shooter is still on going and it’s incredibly unprofessional for law enforcement and quite frankly dangerous to jump to any conclusion. /s

.... and the most important sentence missing from the paragraph. “He was brought in alive”.

So the NYPD has already labeled this as terrorism. See if it is a brown guy it’s terrorism, if it is a white guy in a hotel suite with a bunch of guns shooting at concert goers it’s a lone wolf that just wants to exercise his second amendment rights.

To your point on Lincoln, this quote from a letter he sent to Horace Greeley pretty neatly sums up his rationality for the war and his views on abolition:

“it’s unclear why this is what tipped the scales into a “wait a second, maybe WE’RE the problem territory.”

“I was about to suggest he pull himself up by his mustache straps”