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Mike Dilger ☑️

How the US civil war started, in a nutshell:

North: "Slavery is immoral. We should plan to get rid of slaves."

South: "Are you fucking kidding me? Our whole economy is based on slavery! We'd better leave before that happens."

North: "What? No you can't leave! Because then we couldn't tax you anymore!"

So the North moved their military

And the South said "They are about to strike! Let's strike first!"

and that is how it started.

Dissident Sound 2y ago

except that Lincoln literally said he did not want to free the slaves ...

why would he want to destroy his own tax base ? or was he uniquely moral ? so moral that he is the biggest mass murderer of Americans in history ...

and as Ron Paul said all white countries have ended slavery but only America fought a civil war around the issue.

and Slavery still exists in Africa.

sorry to say Mike but your other commenters are right - yours is a bad take.

and here is a Brilliant take: Lincoln is considered greatest president in history because he killed the most Americans. this is a general rule. the more people a president kills the "greater" he is considered. presidents who don't kill anybody ( like Trump ) are considered the worst.

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Mike Dilger ☑️ 2y ago

I agree with yoru statement on Lincoln, except for the word "except" because it is not at all in contradiction to what I wrote. The North had slaves throughout the war. The North did not fight to free the slaves. Read my statement again. Slavery was not an issue for the North.

As it always is in war, the two sides were not on the same page. The South feared slavery was coming. Read the statements they made when they seceded.