Ah you mean they challenged state sovereignity which is… A state right!

Exactly. The slave states didn’t care about states rights at all. All they cared about was keeping slaves. If the believed in what they were saying about states rights, they wouldn’t have tried to force non-slave states to turn over freed slaves. The entire “confederates wanted states rights” argument is bullshit. They used the states right excuse to uphold the practice of slavery, and completely ignored these rights when they were used against slavery.

The Confederacy was about keeping slaves, and it was not about upholding the sovereignty of states. That was myth invented after the war was lost to whitewash the people who fought for the “right” to own and abuse human beings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Cause_of_the_Confederacy

The Lost Cause of the Confederacy, also known as the Lost Cause Myth or simply as the Lost Cause,[1] is an American pseudohistorical[2][3] and historical negationist myth[4][5][6] that argues the cause of the Confederate States during the American Civil War was just, heroic, and not centered on slavery

You can keep arguing after this I guess, but from this point forward, you would be knowingly promoting and defending a racist slaver-apologizing fraudulent piece of revisionist history.

I literally quoted Jefferson Davis a month into the Confederacy. You should go read a fucking history book. Racism and slavery was the foundation of the Confederacy, as stated by the people that started it. States rights is a bullshit excuse. The confederate states wanted to force non-slave states to return escaped slaves, despite them have the rights (specifically a state right) not to return human beings to slavers. Fuck off with this fake ass daughter of the Confederacy propaganda.

Our new government['s]…foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests upon the great truth, that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—subordination to the superior race—is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.

Saying the civil war was about states rights is like saying the Holocaust was completely legal.

Both positions are factually correct, but it completely misses the inhuman and immoral pretexts that lead to those actions. The American civil war was about slavers trying to prolong their lifestyle of abusing other human beings regardless of what the laws of the country were. They saw that slavery was going away, and they responded by starting a war of secession.

Ah, I see you had a history class in a “lost cause revisionist” state.

I’m going to go drink every time…

He says he is the “peace president”. Says he has stopped some number of wars, but the number is different from last time he said it. Announces he is starting a war. Brags about getting a peace medal (from FIFA). Calls for the military to deploy inside the US. Denigrates a reporter, drink double if they are in the room. Announces he is arresting prominent Democrats. Calls antifa a terrorist organization.

Double drink if he says that Rob Reiner had TDS and deserved it.

Finish the bottle if he admits that he is implicated in the Epstein files, and resigns.

Even easier with SharePoint. A part of my job is making sure that users doesn’t accidentally share literally everything with everyone.

Lies. Last thing you see is a WarThunder forum comment claiming that the radar cross section of a F-22 is about the size of a golfball, and you know for a fact that in most directions, it has a radar cross section comparable with a bumble bee.

Confirmed, although I’ve been looking at a live-aboard yacht instead of a micro farm. (not rich, but the housing market is so crazy that these things are in the realm of being cheaper than my house)

It’s cruel to the cat. There is no shortage of outdoor hazards that can injure them or make them sick. It’s also very bad for biodiversity. Domestic cats alone are responsible for the endangerment and extinction of hundreds of species. There are other, better, more targeted ways to deal with pests. Do not keep your pets outside.

Yeah. The coyotes are just doing course correction for nature.

I’m going to need you to speak with my lawyer and sign a waiver if you refuse to test for a pregnancy. We cannot discuss any further until this matter is settled, or the situation becomes a life threatening emergency.

I understand your position, but I’m going to need you to prove you aren’t pregnant or have a chance of being pregnant before we discuss this further.

I’d like to buy a vowel.

It pretty blantantly shows that there is a greater concern for the potential existence of something which may potentially become a person, than there is for the actual person having an actual medical emergency.

Biggest mistake of 2008 was not holding people accountable. Second biggest mistake was bailing out the banks.

The government should have enforced collective bargaining to keep people in their homes, and cap ARMs at 3% APR, and make the maximum payment of a mortgage no more that 25% of the owners annual income, and capped the term length at 30 years. Bank’s can’t make money on those terms? Fuck’em. We should care more about people being able to live in their houses than we should care about a billion dollar business’ bottom line. Investing comes with risk, accept the risk that if you build a system that topples the economy and forces people out of homes due to predatory loans, that you might lose some profit.

cries in sciatica

That’s pretty dope. I would totally donate some of my skin to make a sick wallet for one of my family members (they’re into weird curios).

Clarification : After I die. Not while I still need the skin.

I vote for school tax levys. I don’t (and probably will never) have kids.

This is the answer.

I’d come back, but I’m charging 4x my old wage, I get back-pay to my furlough date at my new rate. I’m also signed for 25 years, with yearly adjustments for inflation, and if I’m termed for any reason, I keep my pay package.

Oh yeah. I got that one. While I was on break… At work… Listening to a nice guy make traditional candies from across the break room while I made some coffee.

Really lucky it was in the middle of COVID and I was the only person in the office.