cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/25244839
Basically boils down to:
"The separation was caused by their want to separate."
Yeah, no shit. But why did they want to separate?
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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The war of states rights. Sure.
The states right to do what, precisely?
Answer the question.
Uh uh uh uh, states rights bro, it was about a lot of things really but yeah it was mainly about the states rights
States rights to:
I love that they try to keep running around in circles as if we don't know for sure that they're just identifying with other racists.
They're cowards.
But to answer your question, well it was about a lot of things, it was mainly a states rights issue, and they didn't want their way of life to change. That way of life may or may not have been exploitation and torture of an entire race of people, but I'm not gonna say slavery although we both know for a 100% fact that was the main reason, because I'm a dumb turd and I like backing racists openly but I'm too much of a coward to just say it out loud because I am aware it's morally bankrupt.
iTs nOt hATe ItS HeRitAgE
Oh I know. I just like setting up the rhetorical bear trap. It’s so easy.
I know I’m preaching to the choir here <3
They always do the uh uh uh well mainly and try to minimize the fuck out of it, it's as funny as it is sad
Ummmmm... To have rights. Do you have something against rights? So much for the tolerant left!
I like how there's the technically true but misleading B, and then the strictly untrue D that is still actually way closer to the actual character of events
It's a vocabulary test, if the word of the week was suffrage it's D. Must be a course in Floridian business English preparing you for smalltalk with your colleagues.
Why did they want to secede from the union Florida?
Setting the obviously racist inane bullshit aside, what the fuck does this question have to do with vocabulary? Those are all concepts expressed phrases, a concept entirely different that vocabulary.
"attack fort Sumter" is the correct answer
It wasn't "insisting on their right to secede" it was "attacking Fort Sumter to exercise a supposed right to secede"
This. 100% this. 💯🔥
dorks.
That's fucked, straight up, they seceded from the Union because they believed in the right of an individual to own other individuals. There was no trade, no "disagreement" on anything other than the right to own people, now mind you, if you lived in the south you would be extremely interested to know the playbook they used to get poor white families that had never, and would never even be able to afford a house slave, let alone a field slave, to fight for the south "big government over reach" yup. "Uncle Sam's telling us how to run our states and is gonna collapse our economy with big government over reach" just sounds too damn familiar doesn't it? However what's brutal, this current situation was caused by the Democrats, they alienated the "conservatives" when they dilapidated the rust belt with NAFTA. All those small towns left to rot because their good paying jobs moved to mexico, and frankly, once the people of Mexico wanted good pay, the corps moved further production to third world countries and only some assembly in Mexico thereby bypassing what NAFTA was for in the first place, leaving Mexico not really better off, the US further drained of hard earned resources for cheap products from third world countries that won't last long enough for you to get ahead before needing a new one... But I digress! States rights! The civil war was over states believing their wealthy citizens had the right to own people. That is why they seceded.