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tom_machine 2 points ago +2 / -0

HW Brands is an extremely prolific historical biographer. YOU WOULD KNOW THAT IF YOU EVER READ ANY HISTORY

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RatioInvictus 1 point ago +1 / -0

I'm a prolific shitter; that doesn't mean my output is worth consuming. Cardi B records lots of songs, etc, etc. I know who Brands is; he's not the goods.

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tom_machine 1 point ago +1 / -0

K. The point in sending that article was to show how tariffs pushed the south towards secession over many years. It didn’t happen all at once. It was a ball rolling down hill picking up momentum. Slavery was like a final “fuck you”.

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tom_machine 1 point ago +1 / -0

You probably have shat no more than the average man, which would make you an average, not prolific, shitter.

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RatioInvictus 1 point ago +1 / -0

Lol. Again, what kind of moron can't recognize that he doesn't have enough information for a probability estimate? How much WOULD you say the average man has shat?! You don't even know my age, diet, or weight! Maybe I eat a lot of fiber. Maybe I've just trained for it. More to the point, you're now arguing over whether a man you've never met is a "prolific" shitter, without even having a threshold for the categorization. That's meta AND derivative. Anyways... Confederate Battle Flag: fuck 'em. America First.

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tom_machine 1 point ago +1 / -0

I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO SAY THAT PROBABLY YOU ARE WITHIN THE MORE THAN 99% OF PEOPLE WHO SHIT NORMALLY! ITS REALLY NOT HARD MATH! PLENTY OF INFORMATION TO SAY PROBABLY WHICH MERELY IMPLIES MORE THAN 50% CHANCE... MORE IMPORTANTLY, THERE IS LITTLE VARIATION IN THE AMOUNT OF SHITS MEN TAKE — AS OPPOSED TO HISTORICAL BIOGRAPHIES THEY’VE AUTHORED!

Comparing the number of books Brands has written on American History to others, he is one of the most prolific. I’m just saying a fact about the guy. Happen to disagree with him on a lot (more now that I found that article). But I respect the fact that his work is well researched, even if his opinions are not as thoroughly crafted (in my view). In fact it would be hard to be that prolific in aggregation and still maintain good interpretive skills. It would also be hard to be that prolific in historical literature without having some sort of merit to one’s output.

Your comment history is full of personal attacks where you seem to skip the logic of the other person’s post and launch into your own rude tirade full of immature insults which don’t really seem to land the way you intend them to. Maybe lay off the soy for a while? (Disclaimer: clearly I am aware that you may not consume soy, which os part of why I say maybe, and I think it is a good catch all figurative phrase to get my point across, which is that unprovoked personal attacks from behind a keyboard are emasculating)

Every state in the confederacy is a state in the United States. So while you say “America First”, you are telling a great many people with a lot of history whose relatives fought and died for their own freedom from tyranny to go fuck themselves.

Boiling down the civil war merely to a race issue is much of what has our country so divided today, and what has enabled these recent frauds and moral decay to take place. Nearly everything the evil democrats do today is blamed on the invisible specter of “racism”, not the least of which is the smearing of the south and the confederacy as an uniquely racist entity. It was not.

The battle flag was co-opted by racist Dixiecrats in opposition to civil rights legislation... surely you are aware of this (I mean that not sarcastically, I think that probably you do know it).

Many people did cling to their ways in the south. Habits die hard!

But it must be remembered, the Union did not fight to banish or destroy the south. It fought to keep them!