I’ve been reading this history of the US 1843-1865, in the Penguin History of the US. This guy asserts that states rights were invoked only within the context of slavery, specifically whether to permit slavery in new territories. This came to a head with the accession of Texas from Mexico. The North, he said, didn’t…

You can’t use that argument. My dad snapped back with “well my share profits are increasing” -___- it’s a literal fuck you I got mine

Flying a Confederate flag is like celebrating Nazi Germany. They ultimately lost the war, but they put up one hell of a fight, to many people they were “heroes” as well. So fudge it, lets put up some Hitler statues too.

Uh, Lee most certainly did own slaves...

N. Korea’s reasoning amazes me. They have a missile system that had a couple of successful launches, but has never actually carried a payload or been shown it would be effective in combat, yet they’re making threats against a country that’s at least 40 years ahead of them in technology.

It’s like inventing a musket and…

With respect, I’m fairly certain that neither party will continue to exist in its current iteration for very much longer, for the very simple reason that “right” and “left” have as much political valence today as the parties’ position on the Kansas-Nebraska Act.

Perhaps, but I doubt it. In your scenario, where the left runs someone with the politics of, say, a Jill Stein, the more likely outcome is either a centrist Democrat winning the primary with significant moderate Republican votes, or a centrist Republican (a Huntsman, a Collins,) winning the general by garnering many…

Yes! This! Apparently occasionally getting they butt checked for bullying and harassment classifies as oppression. They used to bully, torture, kill, and harass everyone else with impunity, but now that those people are talking back to them, they want to cry about how they’re the victims. Really, people?!!

Yeah. I want to be optimistic, but a part of me thinks, time will pass, trump will be out of office and the following will happen.

If only this were true. 60 years ago, with the passing of the Civil Rights Act, white America was told to back up. The way things were, were terrible. An embarrassment that we could cling to so many injustices that are now going to be righted. It was a New World and so many, white and black, loved it because maybe now…

I watched this CNN interview with a former white supremacist and he described going to the rallies as the ultimate/super boost to your self esteem. You’re chasing the feeling more than actual facts.

I forget, which of the men on Mount Rushmore created a separate country and fought a war against the United States government?

This argument is continually stupid. The idea that the media should ONLY focus on the “important” issues while our president acts unhinged is ridiculous. He’s not “distracting” and no one is “falling for his tricks.” He is under a barrage of press because he’s doing insane shit. The media can cover all of it and if…

To “AreYouPositive2" in the grays:

Yes, that’s pithy, but also incorrect. The ACLU has defended the KKK and other white power groups’ right to assemble for years. I don’t know if that changes now.

Trump referred to both sides as the alt-right and the alt left yesterday. Last night, Stephen Colbert corrected him, saying the other side is not the alt left, the other side is people who are not Nazis.

Remember when the one thing pretty much everyone would agree on is “Nazis are bad”?

One easy to way to tell if you are on the wrong side of an issue is when the other people who agree with you are carrying Nazi flags.

There’s a reason we HAVE to have laws that specifically state to not steal and kill. And that’s because people.

Sorry about the beer cans on the coffee table, the pile of used napkins in the kitchen, the spilled laundry detergent in the garage, the socks all over my bedroom floor, the dirt that made its way out of the garden and onto the walk, the windowsills I haven’t had a chance to dust, the lopsided throw pillows on the…