Don't worry. States still have a right to slaves, as long as they make up some sort of a crime the person is "guilty" of before you can use them as a slave, but you can still completely do it.
39Oh I'm saving this. Here's a similar one I picked up along the way:
27The Declaration of Secession issued by South Carolina, the first state to secede, directly mentions “an increasing hostility on the part of the non-slaveholding states to the institution of slavery”. It was about slavery. Period. Go deep south on deez nuts, traitor scum.
23Edited because CTL-Return b.s. submitted my comment early. Twice. Also, censors lemmy? Really now. That's a quote, not my slur.
History buff here, not even scratching the surface:
- 1820, Misouri Compromise. Drew a line across the USA where North was slave free, South was a slave state.
- 1854, Kansas-Nebraska Act undid the compromise. Allowing new states to choose whether they were a slave state or not.
- 1860, Abraham Lincoln elected. Maybe 39% voted for him in a 4-way race. Northern "liberal" man, "not my president" nonsense ensues. Literally the first Republican* president.
- 2 months later, Ordinance of Succession, marking the unofficial start of the civil war over "property" and 'not my president, "anti-slavery party"'.
The Ordinance of Succession was likely enacted over fears that new states would cause slavery to die out.
"For the last ten years we have had numerous and serious causes of complaint against our non-slave-holding confederate States with reference to the subject of African slavery. They have endeavored to weaken our security, to disturb our domestic peace and tranquility, and persistently refused to comply with their express constitutional obligations to us in reference to that property, and by the use of their power in the Federal Government have striven to deprive us of an equal enjoyment of the common Territories of the Republic."
* 1963-1969 President B. Lyndon Johnson, a democrat from Texas is attributed the unproven quote, "I'll have those N-ers voting Democratic for 200 years." Following which, there was a culture shift between Democrats and Republicans.
Well done timeline for those interested: https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/day-civil-war
15Pretty sure some instances censor words. Really stupid. I think your instance is one of the few that does it.
5.ml is the instance that censors your language to avoid hurting anybodies fee fees, go to an instance with rational admins.
5I like your username
3Thank you.
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Uh...
Well, uh...
Well the confederacy didn't want to be opressed by the North!
14Oppressed from doing what? :)
13affordable cotton and tobacco production using [Redacted] labor.
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"Free speech to say what???"
9No one’s arguing that states rights aren’t worth fighting for.
But if someone doesn’t care about free speech, and then suddenly cares because people don’t want him saying the N word all the time, does he actually care about free speech? Or does he just want to say the N word without consequence?
8I know this is a touchy subject but can't it be both?
I'm not arguing for the ability to call black people the n word but if they put that shit in a song or something like that I'm saying it end of story.
I want to be able to say it not to be derogatory or insulting but because you added it to a piece of media that I really liked. So I'm saying it in that context.
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... refuse to return escaped slaves? No, that's not it.
8My right to own people, of course.
6Been listening to Ken Burns civil war documentary recently.
They frequently have narration of letters.
Mary chestnut a southern slave holder speaks about how brutal Sherman was to the south, burning fields, tieing railroad tracks, total war, etc.
Like bitch remember that time you owned and defended owning humans and treating them like cattle?
The dissonance is insane. Fuck em all. Sherman montages and these states right to what memes will never not bring a smile to my face.
6It was about controlling congress
Imagine today if you had a bunch of red and blue states (confederate and union) but the blue had the popular vote so what do you do? You try to fix the elections so you win but if that doesn’t work then you secede/have a war because it’s better than not getting to run the country
5Hey, wait a minute, doesn't our current system kinda sound like this...
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Leaving politics out of this, why use screenshots from two different scenes, when there's a perfectly good shot from the same scene you could have used?
2a states right to having a war.
"Oopsie woopsie sowwy uncle sam we committed a wittle bit of waww." - states rights motherfuckers.
2Escape.
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