• CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world
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    48 minutes ago

    For the racists, calling them racist is the real crime. If you want to see right wing dumbasses turn into total snowflakes, see how they behave when confronted on their racism…

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    3 hours ago

    “Bondi is also making a push to deemphasize prosecutions of white-collar crimes, purge diversity programs within the DOJ, reintroduce the federal death penalty, and to root out lawyers who aren’t willing to march in lockstep with Trump ideologically.”

    Shitting biscuits.

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      “Deemphasize prosecution of white-collar crimes”.

      Alright so basically 2008 was a practice round and now we are really planning to make the worlds banks collapse in on their collective greed. Cool.

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      Years ago, there was a big write-up (cannot find it any more) on the idea of Northern Liberty vs. Southern Liberty, and it was totally spot-on.

      Every American should read it because it really laid out the difference between the way cons with the Southern mindset spoke about “liberty” - in their use of this, liberty meant the right to RULE OVER OTHERS. Which is completely at odds with the normal/Northern interpretation.

      When I used to link to this article and mention it on various forums, including DP’s I’d get butthurt cons saying how unfair that characterization is/was. LOL.

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        How is that a spoiler? It was over 150 years ago.

        Also I’m not sure what you think people are supposed to take from that.

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        The thing about the north that I’ve learned that surprised me is how many abolitionists held that belief because they didn’t want black and white people living together. They wanted an ethnostate.

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        BotH sIdEs

        It’s wild to see someone say that for the US Cival War of all things.

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          We can’t acknowledge the whole country was racist in in the 1800s? the country kept black people as slaves. All kinds of industry in the north benefited from the materials produced by slavery even though they didn’t personally own the slaves

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            Lincoln himself said if allowing slavery would preserve the union, he would do it.