Ah you mean they challenged state sovereignity which is… A state right!

Exactly. The slave states didn’t care about states rights at all. All they cared about was keeping slaves. If the believed in what they were saying about states rights, they wouldn’t have tried to force non-slave states to turn over freed slaves. The entire “confederates wanted states rights” argument is bullshit. They used the states right excuse to uphold the practice of slavery, and completely ignored these rights when they were used against slavery.

The Confederacy was about keeping slaves, and it was not about upholding the sovereignty of states. That was myth invented after the war was lost to whitewash the people who fought for the “right” to own and abuse human beings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, also known as the Lost Cause Myth or simply as the Lost Cause,[1] is an American pseudohistorical[2][3] and historical negationist myth[4][5][6] that argues the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery

You can keep arguing after this I guess, but from this point forward, you would be knowingly promoting and defending a racist slaver-apologizing fraudulent piece of revisionist history.

I literally quoted Jefferson Davis a month into the Confederacy. You should go read a fucking history book. Racism and slavery was the foundation of the Confederacy, as stated by the people that started it. States rights is a bullshit excuse. The confederate states wanted to force non-slave states to return escaped slaves, despite them have the rights (specifically a state right) not to return human beings to slavers. Fuck off with this fake ass daughter of the Confederacy propaganda.

Our new government['s]…foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

Saying the civil war was about states rights is like saying the Holocaust was completely legal.

Both positions are factually correct, but it completely misses the inhuman and immoral pretexts that lead to those actions. The American civil war was about slavers trying to prolong their lifestyle of abusing other human beings regardless of what the laws of the country were. They saw that slavery was going away, and they responded by starting a war of secession.

Ah, I see you had a history class in a “lost cause revisionist” state.

cries in sciatica

That’s pretty dope. I would totally donate some of my skin to make a sick wallet for one of my family members (they’re into weird curios).

Clarification : After I die. Not while I still need the skin.

I vote for school tax levys. I don’t (and probably will never) have kids.

If MAGA people were able to understand the subtext of this event, they’d be smart enough not to be MAGA in the first place. You might as well try to explain to a dog why drinking antifreeze is bad.

Snake yawns are the most cute of yawns and I will fight every one who says otherwise.

You know it’s bad when the nazi mouthpiece says there are too many nazis in the nazi party.

So did they.

No. The resultant object will just reach equilibrium on one of it’s sides.

It’s not good, but at this point, the President is pushing Republicans to redrawn districts to explicitly favor Republicans, which is explicitly illegal. He should be impeached for this, along with any Republicans who go along with it. But… With Republican control of all 3 branches of government, he will never be impeached and removed. At this point, fighting fire with fire is the only option left.

So no, it’s not good, it would just be way worse not to do it

My grandma’s 28hr slow roasted goodyears were “fall off the rim” tender.

It’s worked in the past.

No taxation without representation.

If the speaker is preventing my elected official from representing me, then I shouldn’t have to pay a fucking cent until they are seated.

Yeah. We wanted that from the last admin, but they fucked up by being worried about appearing partisan.

Dems : maybe we shouldn’t wreck healthcare anymore than it already is?

Republicans : WE WILL LITERALLY SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT AND STARVE YOU TO DEATH TO PROTECT A CHILD RAPIST AND SAVE BILLIONAIRES A COUPLE MIL ON TAXES!

You : These guys are basically the same, right?

You’re doing great.

Get out some tongs, and clack them a few times.

Ah, another empty reply, with no evidence to support your position.