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  • Two of the most famous events

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    Yes I am an American. An American who’s great great grandfather marched his ass from Indiana down to the bottom of Georgia. In the late 1860s. An American who spent a week each summer following that path with his grandfather and visiting battle sites.

    My argument was not that Lincoln didn’t try to keep the country together. I was just pointing out the irony of calling for a strong leader to bring the country together, and then picking the one president who was in charge when the country split and went to war. It wasn’t Lincoln reaching across the aisle that kept the country together. It was Sherman chasing the confederates to the ocean and burning everything behind him. They were stuck with two options, and the confederates picked the one that didn’t involve swimming for the rest of their lives.



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    My boyfriend keeps saying that America needs a strong leader who can unite the people across the political divide like Lincoln did.

    I think your boyfriend needs to read a history book… Two of the most famous events of Lincoln’s presidency are the only Civil War in the US has ever had, and him getting shot in the back of the head by the opposition.

    Not saying either of those are Lincoln’s fault necessarily…




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    Two things you should look into…

    Paradox of Tolerance.

    Social contract.

    The people not just advocating for, but actively trying to be personally in charge of putting huge portions of the population into death camps are not worthy of tolerance. We cannot allow them to exist unchallenged. Life has been too easy for them, and we have been too abiding of their views and hateful rhetoric, which has empowered and emboldened them into this state of being. They will cry for your tolerance, but not give second thought to callously harming millions of people just for clout. You gotta draw a line somewhere.




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    That, and alligators don’t really see people as food, unless you are a small child playing near the edge of the water at dusk. They can be defensive of their personal space and breeding territory, but they’d much rather be 10ft away from you than attacking you.

    Source: Spent a week kayaking in a burning swamp absolutely filled with alligators. They just want to sit in the sun and be left the fuck alone.


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    The goal isn’t to safely and effectively house people awaiting due process for immigration offenses.

    The goal is to create a brutal inhumane quasi-death camp to eradicate scapegoat ethnicities and to provide a slush fund for pro-Nazi state governments and their jackbooted SS.