lol, some people are still salty over the outcome to this day!

8/22/2017 5:27:43 PM

Underrated GnR song

8/22/2017 5:46:39 PM

What's so civil about war anyways

8/22/2017 5:49:35 PM

I don't like it anymore than he does.

8/22/2017 6:13:11 PM

Allegedly it wasn't fought because of slavery.

8/22/2017 6:26:17 PM

Depends on which side you are talking about.

The south was fighting for slavery, but the north was not fighting to end slavery. They were fighting to stop the south from leaving.

8/22/2017 8:31:44 PM

States rights ftw!

Seriously though, I read somewhere that the south only truly recovered from the Civil War in the 1970's. Yea that was a long time ago, but given how the Civil War happened so many years prior to the 70's...that's pretty amazing.

And you know, people shouldn't be salty over the outcome of the Civil War. What they should be salty about was our country's government during the Reconstruction period. Lots of shitty people running things back then. They did establish the Freedmen's Bureau though, which set the groundwork for some of the HBC's around.

8/22/2017 9:21:39 PM

black people haven't truly recovered from what went on before the Civil War

[Edited on August 22, 2017 at 9:39 PM. Reason : .]

8/22/2017 9:38:22 PM

Ok?

I mean that's pretty common knowledge you're layin down right there.

8/22/2017 10:19:15 PM

Maybe if they hadn't enacted Jim Crow and fought against civil rights, they could have recovered much, much faster.

8/22/2017 10:26:43 PM

^^ so recovery from the Civil War didn't happen in the 70's

8/22/2017 10:38:32 PM

Economic recovery. As a region.

8/22/2017 11:19:53 PM

Must have been super hard to recover from losing all that free labor. Glad to hear they surmounted that economic obstacle in the 70's, cause that's what's important.

8/22/2017 11:53:23 PM

This is why nobody from the north is racist

8/23/2017 12:45:30 AM

we need JCEnumbers and salisburyboy here

8/23/2017 2:51:17 AM

^^^In large part it was Sherman's march.

And Reconstruction. Did I mention Reconstruction?

8/23/2017 7:27:01 AM

it was about slavery. there's no debate or question about it. stop with the alternative history.

8/23/2017 7:51:39 AM

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"Economic recovery. As a region."

You could argue they wouldn't have without the war for a long time as well. I know it's common Lost Cause ethos to claim they were moving away from the slavery-based agrarian society anyway but there I've yet to see convincing evidence of that. Especially considering all the states clearly delineated secession motives.

8/23/2017 9:18:36 AM

Look people, the title of the thread was to discuss the Civil War, and the OP went on to make a statement about how people still get riled up. I was just trying to provide points as to why.

I'm not arguing anything about cause. Or about who was right or wrong. I'm not posing alternative history.

The south was devastated as a result of the war. It lost a larger percentage of its population, it lost a larger percentage of what little manufacturing there was. Sherman's march devastated a very large swath of population centers. Reconstruction was also economically devastating.

I'm not making an argument that it was just as bad as slavery - it's stupid to think anyone would try to make that comparision. Yes, while the south suffered from the Civil War, slaves suffered for a much longer period of time, and their descendants are still suffering today.

Did I cover it all?

8/23/2017 10:03:44 AM

plot twist, EMCE was talking about the comic book story arc because he's a fucking nerd.

8/23/2017 10:13:10 AM

or he was talking about some sick fantasy where cartoon lettuce talk about the American civil war and then he fucks them.

8/23/2017 10:16:05 AM

^ I wouldn't be surprised. I once had a dream that he went around molesting homeless people. I guess lettuce is a logical next step.

8/23/2017 10:39:35 AM

I ain't gonna lie

I'd go balls deep in SSS, with her permission of course

8/23/2017 12:23:28 PM

what about me?

I'd fuck me.

8/23/2017 1:28:43 PM

8/23/2017 1:46:20 PM

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"lol, some people are still salty over the outcome to this day!"

ironically, these are the same people who don't why black people can't just 'get over slavery' since it happened so long ago.

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