12 Jun 2012, 7:59 am
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Why would this make you eager to vote straight Republican?
12 Jun 2012, 8:11 am
ArrantPariah wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Why would this make you eager to vote straight Republican?
Wut? All u did was quote me.
Duh.
12 Jun 2012, 9:34 am
Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Why would this make you eager to vote straight Republican?
Wut? All u did was quote me.
Duh.
Quoting you makes you eager to vote straight Republican?
Some Republican voters sure are strange creatures.
12 Jun 2012, 10:08 am
auntblabby
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12 Jun 2012, 10:09 am
12 Jun 2012, 10:23 am
ArrantPariah wrote:
Raptor wrote:
ArrantPariah wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Why would this make you eager to vote straight Republican?
Wut? All u did was quote me.
Duh.
Quoting you makes you eager to vote straight Republican?
Some Republican voters sure are strange creatures.
The leftist douchebaggery that goes on here does it......
12 Jun 2012, 10:48 am
12 Jun 2012, 11:11 am
Delphiki
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12 Jun 2012, 11:15 am
12 Jun 2012, 11:35 am
12 Jun 2012, 12:36 pm
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Ohhh! You showed him!
12 Jun 2012, 1:20 pm
12 Jun 2012, 1:55 pm
visagrunt wrote:
Delphiki wrote:
I think it is hilarious when the left or right thinks the other side are idiots
I try never to make the mistake of thinking that my opponents are idiots. To underestimate your opponent is to fail properly to repond to your opponent.
However, I will call them on their (ahem) douchebaggery where that is warranted.
Never underestimate your enemy but on the other hand never pass up an opportunity to kick them in the nads.
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12 Jun 2012, 2:36 pm
Vigilans wrote:
Raptor wrote:
Kraichgauer wrote:
Don't know if this point has been brought up yet, but one reason why slavery was not about to die due to its costly, backward nature was the fact that it provided slave holders social status. The more slaves you owned, the higher up the south's social totem pole you would get. And this social status in the south back in those days shouldn't by any means be underestimated.
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
When William Tecumseh Sherman had asked a newly freed, elderly slave why so many poor southerners had fought for the Confederacy when they didn't even own slaves, the old man had answered that the white southern poor were told that with victory, they could own slaves, too.
Kinda reminds me of the modern conservative "promise" to poorer Americans that if they just vote Republican, and give "job creators" another tax break, then they (under class Americans) too can be rich.
Wasn't going to happen with a Confederate victory, and it isn't going to happen now.
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
NOTHING makes me more eager to vote straight Republican ticket this November than YOU.
Ohhh! You showed him!
Oh, I am so vanquished!
-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer
12 Jun 2012, 2:38 pm
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12 Jun 2012, 2:40 pm
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