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06-17-2020, 09:09 AM #426
I suppose someone will want to get rid of Uncle Ben's. Frankly I'd rather see Mr. Clean go. I don't need to be cleaning with a product with a picture of a neonazi skin head on the bottle.
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06-17-2020, 09:33 AM #427Registered User
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06-17-2020, 09:37 AM #428
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06-17-2020, 10:49 AM #429
Ban high fructose corn syrup? I'm in!
Originally Posted by blurred
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06-17-2020, 11:38 AM #430
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06-17-2020, 12:44 PM #431
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06-17-2020, 06:05 PM #432
Benedict Arnold is a complicated story and as usual you are a simpleton
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06-17-2020, 10:17 PM #433
Explain how complicated it is with treason monuments?
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06-18-2020, 04:25 PM #434
What I learned in elementary school history was that Benedict Arnold started off loyal, then became treasonous ( rebelled) and then saw the error of ways and came back to the Crown and was loyal again. Then again in my history class the American Revolutionaries were just misguided and didn't understand that the taxes were to pay for their protection by the Crown.
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06-18-2020, 04:53 PM #435
They were degenerate tea smugglers who wanted to keep the tea tax revenue for themselves (and post-revolution, did): http://revisionisthistory.com/episod...st-in-a-teacup
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06-18-2020, 05:17 PM #436
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06-18-2020, 05:25 PM #437
That's not really true - we didn't slaughter the original inhabitants. We first enslaved them and then killed them off with smallpox and starvation. We didn't start importing slaves from Africa until we ran out of Amerindians
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06-18-2020, 05:27 PM #438
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06-18-2020, 05:31 PM #439
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06-18-2020, 05:50 PM #440
Amerindians practiced slavery commonly as well.
At the time of initial British colonization, virtually the entire world had slavery.
By the time of the revolution, most of the world had slavery, except England (the island, slavery was legal throughout the British Empire) and continental Europe. (We can debate how free the Russian serfs really were).
The US was late to abolition by European standards, however, thanks to the Southern states. Though, we were average by abolition dates in the Americas.
(dates at which slavery, indentured servitude, or serfdom abolished)Originally Posted by blurred
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06-18-2020, 05:55 PM #441
^^^No argument. The North Pacific Coast tribes would throw a slave into the post holes of their long houses before inserting posts and dirt. The slave was supposed to hold up the post...
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06-18-2020, 06:28 PM #442
But no country lays claim to the ideals of freedom and liberty more than the US. It is as I said our founding myth. I live in the US. I am concerned about the lies we tell ourselves. Citizens of other countries can concern themselves with their countries' myths if they like. If we wish to be viewed as exceptional by the rest of the world, if we wish to influence other countries regarding human rights we have to deal with our own past and present.
We have a Constitution which was written in part to defend the institution of slavery, written in part by slaveholders whom we hold up as paragons of liberty and whose judgements are considered holy by 5 members of the SCOTUS. If we are to have human rights in this country we have to acknowledge that a rigid interpretation of the Constitution is as outdated as the views and actions of the men who wrote it. The arc of history does not bend towards justice by itself; we have to bend it.
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06-18-2020, 06:47 PM #443Registered User
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06-18-2020, 07:21 PM #444glocal
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06-18-2020, 08:02 PM #445"fuck off you asshat gaper shit for brains fucktard wanker." - Jesus Christ
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06-18-2020, 08:27 PM #446Funky But Chic
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It was more written to ignore or work around slavey than defend it, it was just a dealbreaker at the time. But other than that, yeah.
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06-18-2020, 08:28 PM #447
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06-18-2020, 08:57 PM #448Registered User
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06-18-2020, 10:06 PM #449
Who gives a shit about your opinion, Mr. Jan 2020 join date JONG with the ever-changing, ever-pretentious username?
Honestly.
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06-19-2020, 07:14 AM #450Banned
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