This is how society dies

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Re: This is how society dies

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We should have let you secede in 1860.


I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.

We would have several small, third world countries on our southern border, and Trump's border wall would need to extend to the Atlantic Ocean.


How could you have a border when the Democratic states of America led by Nancy Pelosi believes border walls are immoral. You wouldn't have several small third world countries on your southern border because you wouldn't even have a border or a country. You'd have whatever the UN allowed you to have.
And when the confederates saw Jackson standing fearless as a stone wall the army of Northern Virginia took courage and drove the federal army off their land.
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ajax18 wrote:I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.

The North and South would have ultimately been drawn into conflict anyway when the Confederacy sided with the Axis powers in Europe.
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Perfume on my Mind wrote:I'm disgusted by rich people who want more. They're ____ in the head and need serious medication.

That sounds like a conspiracy theory to me.

LOL

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ajax18 wrote:
We should have let you secede in 1860.


I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.

We would have several small, third world countries on our southern border, and Trump's border wall would need to extend to the Atlantic Ocean.


How could you have a border when the Democratic states of America led by Nancy Pelosi believes border walls are immoral. You wouldn't have several small third world countries on your southern border because you wouldn't even have a border or a country. You'd have whatever the UN allowed you to have.


Wait.... wut?

Where is that right given in the constitution?
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ajax18 wrote:How could you have a border when the Democratic states of America led by Nancy Pelosi believes border walls are immoral. You wouldn't have several small third world countries on your southern border because you wouldn't even have a border or a country. You'd have whatever the UN allowed you to have.


No, it would still be called the United States. Trump's a New Yorker, so he would have been born into the United States. He would run on building a border wall to keep out those filthy confederate rednecks. :)
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ajax18 wrote:I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.


They sent their sons to end the evils of slavery.
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Morley wrote:
ajax18 wrote:I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.


They sent their sons to end the evils of slavery.

no they didn't....nary a one was motivated as such.
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subgenius wrote:
Morley wrote:They sent their sons to end the evils of slavery.

no they didn't....nary a one was motivated as such.


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ajax18 wrote:I'm amazed that so many Yankees were willing to send their sons to die in battle just to stop the Confederacy from seceding and forming their own nation, a right given to them by the Constitution.

Morley wrote:They sent their sons to end the evils of slavery.


subgenius wrote:no they didn't....nary a one was motivated as such.



Really? Not even one?



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Morley wrote:
Frederick Douglass's Son Lewis Henry Douglass

Oh, you must be soooo right because Lewis joined 2 years after war started but only a few months after emancipation proclamation (that allowed blacks into military...hmmm an odd timeline for "evils")...but ok, his parents sent him to fight them evils.
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