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Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 30th 2023 at 11:03:59 AM
Or just do Physical Stamina's "WE LOST BTW" idea, that's more succinct and punchy then red or blue paint.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang
Seconded.
We need to get away from the position that both sides were just fighting for what they believed in without critically examining *what* they believed in.
That would bolster Lost Causism.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangAll Confederates were believers in slavery, white supremacy, and the independence of their society for the purposes of supporting these two ideas. All volunteers of the Confederacy were people who believed these were concepts worth fighting for.
Author of The Rules of Supervillainy, Cthulhu Armageddon, and United States of Monsters.I would like to ask that we not use ableist slurs. There are other ways to insult the GOP.
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Or did not consider them deal-breakers as a reason for their state's secession from and armed rebellion against the Union. In other words, apathetic to the suffering of the enslaved despite having no interest in actively participating in the enslavement.
Edited by MarqFJA on Aug 31st 2018 at 10:06:39 PM
Fiat iustitia, et pereat mundus.Was it understandable? Certainly, but that doesn't make it any less unjustified or contemptible in my eyes.
My thoughts exactly. To quote the great Dr. King
:
I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that law and order exist for the purpose of establishing justice and that when they fail in this purpose they become the dangerously structured dams that block the flow of social progress. I had hoped that the white moderate would understand that the present tension in the South is a necessary phase of the transition from an obnoxious negative peace, in which the Negro passively accepted his unjust plight, to a substantive and positive peace, in which all men will respect the dignity and worth of human personality. Actually, we who engage in nonviolent direct action are not the creators of tension. We merely bring to the surface the hidden tension that is already alive. We bring it out in the open, where it can be seen and dealt with. Like a boil that can never be cured so long as it is covered up but must be opened with all its ugliness to the natural medicines of air and light, injustice must be exposed, with all the tension its exposure creates, to the light of human conscience and the air of national opinion before it can be cured.
Amazing how much of this remains relevant to this day.
Edited by TobiasDrake on Aug 31st 2018 at 1:11:39 PM
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I actually was thinking of that exact quote when writing that post, sadly the North was full of white moderates who felt that peace were more important then justice.
And unfortunately you're completely right that those words have not become any less relevant.
"Einstein would turn over in his grave. Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded." -Chairman Sheng-Ji YangNAFTA talks have broken off, and will resume next week. So much for Donald's extortionate "deadline".
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/nafta-trump-compromise-trudeau-1.4806240
Few pages late, but with the Bank of America and "shame" idea...
1) As mentioned on page 10147 in the article mctagg posted, they have closed the accounts of people born in the US, specifically Josh Collins of Wichita, Kansas.
2) This is the same company who not only foreclosed on the wrong house (the couple didn't even have a mortgage), they refused to abide by the court's ruling to pay their attorney's fees until the couple foreclosed on their local branch in lieu of payment
.
Edited by ironballs16 on Aug 31st 2018 at 12:59:21 PM
"Why would I inflict myself on somebody else?"AP sources: Lawyer was told Russia had 'Trump over a barrel'
The lawyer, Bruce Ohr, also says he learned that a Trump campaign aide had met with higher-level Russian officials than the aide had acknowledged, the people said.
The previously unreported details of the July 30, 2016, breakfast with Christopher Steele, which Ohr described to lawmakers this week in a private interview, reveal an exchange of potentially explosive information about Trump between two men the president has relentlessly sought to discredit.
Among the things Ohr said he learned from Steele during the breakfast was that an unnamed former Russian intelligence official had communicated that Russian intelligence believed "they had Trump over a barrel," according to people familiar with the meeting.
It was not clear from Ohr's interview whether Steele was directly told that or had picked that up through his contacts, but the broader sentiment is echoed in Steele's dossier.
That breakfast took place amid ongoing FBI concerns about Russian election interference and possible communication with Trump associates.
By that point, Russian hackers had penetrated Democratic email accounts, including that of the Clinton campaign chairman, and Papadopoulos, the Trump campaign associate, was said to have revealed that Russians had "dirt" on Democrat Hillary Clinton in the form of emails, court papers say.
That revelation prompted the FBI to open the counterintelligence investigation on July 31, 2016, one day after the breakfast but based on entirely different information.
Honestly, I'm not really sure why it matters that there were not-terrible, or even "decent" people in the Confederacy; the same could probably be said for most major conflicts.
That doesn't change that one-side overwhelmingly had the higher moral ground over the other. Otherwise fine people are perfectly capable of doing terrible things, it doesn't absolve them of it.
Edited by LSBK on Aug 31st 2018 at 3:16:13 AM
This headline made me laugh: Fox News’ Geraldo Rivera on Alex Jones: ‘Hang Him By the Balls’
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Very true, honestly I think the problem is that people have a very black and white view of things where bad sides can't actually have generally good people supporting them. The banality of evil fully permits for individual decency.
Donald Trump... apparently unaware that he's just confirmed as true the news reports about what he said off the record:

That'd take too long, unless you just dumped a bucket of blue paint of them.
i'm tired, my friend