It was illegal in all but name because of a series of court decisions interpreting the state constitution as banning it. Legislators just never bothered to pass a formal law. By 1790 there was not a single slave in Massachusetts. Maryland technically sided with the Union but it was basically a southern state…

Some do, most don't. After the Civil War there began a series of massive waves of European immigration that exponentially grew the population of the country over the next half century or so. German and Irish American are the dominant ethnic group of white Americans, and these groups were almost nonexistent in America…

It's probably higher than 1% because of how ancestry works but remember that social classes were pretty rigid in those days. If you were a southerner raised in a wealthy family you probably married someone from another wealthy family, and your kids would do the same. It's not like southern debutantes were being…

Because slaveholding was something that only the wealthy could afford. Slaveowners were the 1% of the antebellum era. It's not like every white person in America prior to 1860 was given a bunch of slaves as a birthright or something. Most white people were dirt-poor farmers, craft artisans, shit like that. Even if…

Most white people in America today are descended from post-antebellum immigrants, and even before the Civil War only a tiny fraction of white southerners actually owned slaves. Your odds of having a slaveowner in your family tree as a white person are actually pretty low. In fact with so many masters regularly having…

Phantoms like a muthafucka

Most people were too poor to own slaves. Slave owners were like 1% of the population of the South.

We call it "the Creature".

She's trying to patent a meme that had a half-life of about 18 hours and 99% of the people who watched the Super Bowl have already forgotten about.
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Next on the docket: US Patent and Trademark Office vs. Bros Icing Bros

I saw the shit out of it!

Ya can't trust a man what's made of gas.

Are you talking about the west side? STAY OUT OF THE WEST SIDE!!!!

Yeah but did they ever explain how he regained the ability to speak? (being mute was part of his character back in the day) Or why his face isn't scarred up? (his attitude-era backstory involved being horribly burned in a house fire by the Undertaker)
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He's essentially a completely different person now, who only…

Again, if you're stupid enough to post offensive things on social media using your REAL name, you deserve any lack of employment that results. Don't lament the fact that something easily within your control might make you unemployable some day.

Jeselnik?

That's why god created burner accounts. If you're a Twitter asshole who uses his real name on his account, you're too stupid to be employable anyway. Social media is a thing of Darwinian beauty.

It always amuses me that so many right-wingers use Twitter, Facebook et al as a platform for rants against gays, immigrants, and liberals. If these idiots ever actually set foot in Facebook or Twitter HQ, they would see a large amount of gays, immigrants, and liberals producing the very service they are ranting on.

Every rockstar eventually discovers Noam Chomsky and writes their own pretentious "capitalism sucks, the media is lying to us" rock opera. Kid A was one of the more incoherent examples of this.

It's called Extreme Rules because the rules are extremely lame.

I haven't watched WWE since the Attitude Era but got free tickets to the post-WM Raw last month and been trying to get caught up on the recent TV shows.
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Aaaaaand apparently Kane now talks, shows his face, wears suits, and is the "director of operations" for the Authority (which appears to be 2015's version of the old…