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2015 Apr 30, 1:47pm 71,445 views 200 comments
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MisdemeanorRebel
2015 May 11, 11:58pm
Wow, it's amazing that a system in decline, on the verge of being dropped, that Slavery spread fast and firmly along the Mississippi from it's home in the Old South.
Wow, it's amazing that a system in decline, on the verge of being dropped, that Slavery spread fast and firmly along the Mississippi from it's home in the Old South.
Christ, look at east texas, kentucky, lousiana, and the western half of tennessee. I never knew there was anywhere near that much slavery there. I always thought slavery was virginia to mississippi. That's what reality is calling a fricking decline? WTF? He should change to unreality.
HydroCabron
2015 May 12, 8:00am
I always thought WWII was silly for this same reason. Hitler had ceased attacking France, and the SS was winding down the extermination camps - Treblinka effectively ceased operation in late 1943, and the reception area at Chelmno was dismantled in 1942. Clearly Nazism was declining on its own. Similarly with the Japanese: there were no substantial attacks on American soil after December of 1941.
All in all, our actions against the Axis were unprovoked aggression, borne of a Hamiltonian conception of centralized government and driven by a rapacious central bank.
In the same vein, abortion rates are down dramatically over the past 30 years, indicating laws against it to be merely a power-grab of do-gooders aiming to enhance their own careers by stifling the Noble Cause.
indigenous
2015 May 12, 8:09am
All in all, our actions against the Axis were unprovoked aggression, borne of a Hamiltonian conception of centralized government.
Pinche Cabron the mutt, actually the centralization part is still going today. Thanks un American Asshole Abe.
No matter how you want to dice it technology has and will replace slavery, drudgery, dangerous work. I would think farming has or will completely change through robotic technology.
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Much has been made lately about the power of non-violence and what the black community in Baltimore (and elsewhere) should do and how is best to achieve good results. Inevitably, the white community extolls Gandhi or MLK's path of non-violence.
I believe this serves multiple purposes. One, it allows the white community a way to celebrate what they see as their superior morals and culture as compared to the minority communities. 2nd, it appeals to white liberalism in that non-violence is believed to be an effective tool when confronted by injustice or state sponsored violence. It appeals to a conservative law-and-order authoritarian in that it promotes PASSIVITY (as opposed to pacifism) and a humble and obedient underclass of minorities.
However, I had also read many years back that there was intense violence that accompanied many of these so-called pacifist movements, such as the Independent India movement, the Civil Rights struggle and so on. How then can we attribute the change that occurred to the non-violent movement, and does it serve a larger purpose to do so?
What do you think, pro or con, on the efficacy of non-violence? Do you have any historical support for that belief?
https://prospect.org/article/baltimore-police-thuggery-real-violence-problem
"Eric Garner’s gruesome choking death, which was caught on video, does not elicit calls of nonviolence, but the burning of an inanimate object spurs a landslide of Martin Luther King Jr. quotes, sanitized for white consumption. If burning buildings is an act of violence, police murdering civilians with impunity must be called violence too."