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Okay now apply this logic to the Civil War...
Some people say that the worst thing America made was slavery. Some say native American genocide, some say Jim Crow laws, some say Japanese American internment.
I disagree with all of these. The worst thing America did was allow pro-slavey traitor states back into the union instead of keeping them as beaten colonies. Radical Republican, Thaddeus Stevens wanted to do just that and warned that the South is incompatible with the north.
Shoulda just had General Sherman down there full time after the war ended.
Sherman didn't go far enough.
He made it to the sea. How much further should he have gone?
He was too busy genociding the native Americans.
Every slave should have gotten land. Every slaver should have gotten rope.
Watching Manhunt on Apple TV was interesting. I'm sure there are a lot of artistic liberties but it was interesting to see just how much Andrew Johnson fucked the country over. It's such a shame Lincoln was assassinated when he was. Reconstruction done his way would have resulted in a very different landscape. I don't think he was naive, I just don't think anyone other than him could've done it and Johnson sure wasn't wanting to anyway. Such a shame for this country what happened to him.
I havent watched this but Andrew Johnson is the biggest fucking piece of shit in the world and Lincoln was assassinated just so that Reconstruction could be fucked and everything in a worse state than when we began.
Jan 6th people got more punishment than slave state leaders did and they barely got slaps on the wrist.
This country does not learn its lessons.
The book is so much better & so is the sequel, Bloody Crimes . I won't watch it because I knew that they would barely follow the book
And slave-catcher in the North. As someone born in MI, I always considered myself better than my Arkansas neighbors, but when you realized both sides had economies that "were okay" with slavery, you realized it all isn't so cut and dry.
But generally, I agree, the south should have been beaten back harder and those supporting slavery (even northers re-enslaving and kidnapping people) should have all gotten stricter punishments.
So I'm not American so I just had a brief skim of things regarding that, the Wade–Davis Bill seems important but Lincoln vetoed it.
Interesting moment in history I honestly had never thought much about the era post-Civil War where the country had to reform.
Yep
And Benjamin Wade (from Wade-Davis bill) nearly became a president. After Andrew Johnson was impeached, he fell short by ONE SINGLE VOTE from being convicted because 5 moderate Republicans were afraid that Wade (who was president pro-tempore) was too radical to be president.
Do you know any good books about this sort of thing?
Makes sense that Reconstruction would fly under your radar (it does for most Americans too), but it's not much of an overstatement to say that it is (for worse) one of the most pivotal periods of American history
We could have let them back in, but only after fully stripping the slaver aristocracy of their lands and capital and distributing it to their former slaves and organizing said freedmen into self sufficient, highly armed and organized militias.
What’s this “we” stuff? You do know the “we” you’re talking about engaged in genocide?
I can't believe Ford pardoned Robert E. Lee and people were more upset he pardoned Nixon. Ya fuck Nixon but hang Lee from the highest tree and don't ever bury him. Traitors don't deserve honors
Nixon was also a traitor.
He committed treason to undermine negotiations to end the Vietnam War just to help his presidential campaign.
Sherman should have kept going
They wanted to move base to Cuba so badly, we should have obliged and deported them there.
Well, unfortunately, a big reason for the civil war is that then Republicans up north thought they could form a Republican homogeny down south if they freed the slaves and gave them the right to vote since they obviously wouldn't vote for their enslavers but for their liberators.
See: Women, Race, and Class by Angela Davis
They should’ve executed all the main confederates as traitors. I said what I said.
And have them constantly rising up and stirring violence everywhere? Cutting off access to ports or fucking with trade in the gulf? I agree, the south and North are incompatible. But keeping them as beaten colonies only invites more beatings on both sides and the rapid decline of a system of government based on inquiry and debate, not violence. Granted we’re still headed downhill, I’m just not sure “beaten colonies” was the right way to go either.
Or to some rando showing up at his house, kicking his ass, and claiming the property as their own. He couldn’t defend it so it’s mine now
Better yet, let's apply this directly to him and his house right now. We can boot his bitch ass to the curb and ask him why he deserves to keep land he can't successfully defend
I was gonna mention the guy who lives south of the Mason/Dixon
"WAR BETWEEN THE STATES!"
WAR OF NORTHERN AGRESSION
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They also signed treaties.
How dare you, this is white genocide or something. /heavy sarcasm
Right? Like why are we still allowing Alabama to run itself [into the ground]?
If only they hung all the traitors who fought for the right to own their fellow man
Or the War of 1812.
Ok, now apply this logic to Matt Walsh’s house
Apply this logic to the suposed "mexican invaders" who are "taking over the country."
What if I just want his fancy new car. Can I just beat his ass and he has to hand over the title since he can’t defend it?
Hey, look at that....Illinoitucky really appreciates all these post-confederates giving us our land back. Kentuckyians will just have to move their stuff into storage B.
Matt Walsh just said if you can beat him up and take his stuff then you can keep it.
Challenge accepted
Shouldn’t be much of a challenge honestly. I bet the whole reason why he leans into toxic masculinity and props himself up with the beard and flannels is because he obviously lacks true masculine traits. Instead of focusing on competition, performance, success, and other traits, he just complains on the internet about literally everything under the fucking sun for the sake of grifting. Truly such a pathetic and shallow existence.
The moron looks as if he couldn't even take on a sandwich. But since he's basically telling everyone they have free pass to come and take this stuff, so be it.
Are those masculine traits? Because if so I'm a huge sissy
i still think you're cool
Maybe I don't know fuck all because I'm just a delicate little flower of a woman but my criteria for a good man is whether or not he steps up to look after the people around him, primarily the ones he's responsible for but also showing kindness and generosity to strangers.
I can't imagine relying on men who display this toxic bullshit for anything. They're the ones taking more than their fair share and leaving everyone else to do without when they ought to be doing the exact opposite.
Yep. He's a skinny, chicken-necked bitch.
100% what most of these grifters are. They couldn't swing it in the mainstream (mostly because people spot their BS from a mile away) so they make a living doing ragey clickbait to fellow milquetoast damp squibs.
See Steven Crowder couldn't hack it as a comedian as an example. These are all people who failed in mainstream entertainment so they make a living espousing bullshit - some of which they don't even believe but they know what attracts the eyeballs.
And that if you sign a treaty with him to end the conflict, you have no reason to actually honor it because he apparently thinks that the world still operates with the same archaic moral framework that it did in the 1800s.
But we all know he is just grifting his audience.
Just an all around scumbag.
Where does he live? Just wondering for unrelated reasons.
He's actually homeless now. I just kicked his ass, and now I own his house and his family. I really wasn't comfortable with the second part, but he really insisted.
I hope he handed over that beard too.
No, the beard ran off as soon as it saw trouble coming, and is currently living in sin with Ben shapiro's yarmulke
I just want to talk to him.
"I'm gonna
robgrief him... in Minecraft."Everything about his public persona tells me that that isn't a serious challenge.
Can I beat him up normally, or do I also have to wear a diaper and be in the mud
Source: Matt Walsh is fucking weird
I'm old with bad knees and a bad back, but I'm sure I could take him in a 1 on 1 fist fight.
"I didn't steal it, I conquered it. You lost the war over your wallet"
I don't think he could defend a cardboard box
If I wouldn't be flagged I'd go try that theory out for sure.
Bring up the Confederates and watch him perform Olympic gold level mental gymnastics
Well by that logic the South’s government should have been completely replaced by union governors after the Civil War, right Matt?
Of course not they were white! -Matt Walsh
Pretty big talk for someone with a goddamn Bitmoji lookin ass profile picture.
This man must have hemorrhoids the size of grapefruits since he spends all of his pointless life forcing himself to take the most asinine contrarian stance on every fucking subject.
That’s his character in the stupid new Daily Wire cartoon show.
Okay yeah I can see that. It still looks like a lame soulless bitmoji to me.
He is a hemorrhoid
says the guy who loves the confederate flag
Okay, let's apply this to the Confederate States.
Why do the losers of a war "deserve" statues and honors if they lost?
Because they're white
Ok but what's the fake reason Matt would say out loud
Confederate apologists don't typically recognize that the confederates were not americans.
"The South was engaged in peaceful protest until the north invaded."
"all the south did was fight for states rights, why should they be punished for standing up to big government?"
Or Senators?
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They're valid, if they're successful and you can make them look legitimate. Which, of course, takes a lot of wealth to do.
No that's not it at all, it's the right of every foreign power to take land from whoever they want whenever they want as long as you can win. It's only wrong when it's his home
It is against international law to absorb territory gained from war into the country.
It also wasn’t a war. We just came in with guns and pushed people away
It was a series of several genocides and ethnic cleansings.
Often times there would be a treaty signed which would allow the native group to keep their land and then it would be violated within a couple years.
Can we apply this logic to the nuclear family bullshit, then? And every right wing boogeyman?
"Trans people are getting rights!" Well, you lost that. Why do you deserve to keep your "rights" to smear them when you lose every culture war?
Name a culture war conservatives have ever won. Suffrage? Women can vote now. Slavery? Nope. Civil rights? Sorry. Gay marriage? Nah. Pride merchandise? Hahaha. God in schools? Zip. Abortion? Was legal for decades and is still legal in most states. Segregation? Thanks Truman for fixing that. And they're losing on trans rights, currently.
They're never on the right side of things. History's losers.
Uhhh... conservatives won against bud light!
Zero. Been saying the same thing since Trump won in 2016. Conservatives make small gains here and there, but on the long term they never win.
i genuinely hope there has never been any question in any decent human being’s mind that he’s a total piece of shit
So if I kill Matt Walsh I get his house? And all his worldly possessions? Asking for a friend.
Yes, and all his descendants' possessions as well.