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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month ago

It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.

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It Wasn’t a ‘Civil War.’ It Was the Slaveholders’ Rebellion.

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sanitation@lemmy.today to politics @lemmy.world · 1 month ago
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  • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.social
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    A truly civil war would be far less destructive, I think. I mean, killing each other and blowing shit up is far from civil.

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      A true civil war would just be a line of men slapping eachother with their gloves until one side cries uncle

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      What’s so civil about war anyway.

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      Seems pretty fucken apt to describe a civil society. Generally so called savage societies had ways of dealing with problems before they exploded, unlike say Rome who got into civil wars every other Thursday or they burned Constantinople down because their team lost.

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        Now we burn down cities when our teams win.

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          Oh they did that as well, just not as thorough.

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          now we burn down a planet dominated by fossil fuel emissions

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