“Worst deal signed by anybody in history!” “I strongly disagreed with Regan on the NCTZ, big time! I did, I did”

I disagree slightly that reconstruction wasn’t punitive enough. Andrew Johnson did a pretty good job of gutting the whole thing right from the get-go by pardoning pretty much any confederate sympathizer who asked nicely. That meant that a huge portion of the Congress’s reconstruction plans, many of which were…

Yeah, if WWI taught us anything, it’s that it’s important to make sure to exact extreme retribution on your opponents in an unprecedentedly bloody war. They will be heeled for centuries to come. Nothing horrible germinates down the road when you humiliate a people en masse with brute force.

So, instead of acting like adults - sharing and working together to fix the nation - we need to give in to our spoiled brats and just break the toy in half. This, of course, assumes that there are only two opinions out there - so maybe we should just split it 50 ways? But that assumes there are only 50 opinions out…

Umm, Lincoln died several weeks before the Civil War ended. He had planned on something more akin to reconciliation, but with his death, harsher terms were imposed on the South than you suggest. I would point out that had not Grant, Sherman and Lincoln been conciliatory in the early surrenders that set the tone for…

You could never divide cleanly based on politics within a state, especially given how some change from election to election.

Can you think of an easy way to split “America’s metropolitan areas” and “America’s rural areas” into two separate countries? It’s not just Northern States v. Southern States any more.

Wasn’t Lincoln (who died a week or so after Lee surrendered). His 10% plan was definitely very lenient, and he would have enforced that. The Radical Republicans took control of Reconstruction after a brief period of Andrew Johnson bumbling his way to sort of following Lincoln’s plan.

First of all dude Lincoln died before the war even ended. Second, the divide doesn’t start after a goddamn revolution. That’s kind of the whole reason a Civil War started in the first place.

Who says the divide(s) would be A/B binary between liberals and conservatives?

That “fight” was a microcosm for Trump’s campaign.

If only we had some way to test this, like a lengthy primary process in which she ran against other liberal persons to see who more likely Democratic voters would vote for.

That was a good analysis of pain and growth. As a parent, it’s difficult to walk that fine line you described — obviously, if your child is going to put his hand on a red-hot cooking element, you pull their hand away, but if they’re tottering on the edge of their bed reaching for something and a fall onto the ground…

“Have you ever sold any of your babies to rich people for food, as was suggested by Jonathan Swift?”

You need to learn a little history, my dear. The Irish were oppressed for hundreds of years, and indentured servitude is only the tip of an ugly and shameful iceberg. Members of my family were deliberately starved to death. I don’t find that amusing at all.

You’re Reich. I’ll try to Hitler the mark next time.

“Wait, so if I beat a racist team I can also yell the N word as a taunt? This logic, only in ‘Merica.”

more like Leonidas of ‘Roids.

I dug up a photo of a ping pong shoe, in case anyone is interested.

To celebrate, everyone in the green pool!!!