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LBJ was perhaps the single most evil politician in the history of the United States.

Romans got a lot of nerve when they complained about the Germans fucking with them considering they spent the 2 centuries before that nailing people to wood

Turkish people should have been exterminated
 
LBJ conspired with Israel to false flag USS Liberty so they could finagle us into intervening in the Six Days War. It only failed because the ship put a valiant defense and managed to get distress signals out that blew it.
 
The slur cracker did not come from the use of whips by slave owners. I believe the term predates America. The British used it to describe the Irish, probably coming from Gaelic term meaning to speak, be loud, or to speak jokingly. This is where the term wise cracker comes from. African Americans were robbed of the cultural heritage and adopted poor Southern culture, mainly made of the Irish. Everything that is considered black culture that the white man stole was usually the blacks twist of Irish (white) culture with a little bit of Chinese for good measure.
 
Waifu Days dijo:
The slur cracker did not come from the use of whips by slave owners. I believe the term predates America. The British used it to describe the Irish, probably coming from Gaelic term meaning to speak, be loud, or to speak jokingly. This is where the term wise cracker comes from. African Americans were robbed of the cultural heritage and adopted poor Southern culture, mainly made of the Irish. Everything that is considered black culture that the white man stole was usually the blacks twist of Irish (white) culture with a little bit of Chinese for good measure.
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Besides which it is commonly used in the South as a classist slur by Whites against Whites, with a meaning equivalent to "White trash."
 
I personally believe the Civil War was one of the first great cover ups the United States pulled off. The argument that the South wanted to preserve state rights only for the use of continuing slavery is surface level ignorance at best, and down right smearing at worst. While the use of slavery would have continued for a time after the war. Slavery would most likely have been abolished within the decade after, as it was a practice that was not only becoming globally recognized as immoral, but also being shown as uneconomically sound as the invention of better farm tools and practices began to advance, and it's unlikely the workers would come up with better ways to do there job if they are being mistreated. This is why the argument of slavery to disprove the need for states rights is retarded and used as a weapon to silence anyone that wants to ask questions.
I also think the reason that Lincoln was assassinated soon afterwards was because he was possibly planning on taking great (as in careful) measures to rejoin the Confederacy with the Union, and the powers at the time saw a better opportunity to have a scapegoat that they could use to easily install their own plan on peoples over reliance of the federal gov't. This is why Reconstruction was the drastic failure that it was, and the reason whites and blacks have so many race relation issues to this day. Compounding with the weakening of state independence, since no one wants to be like those racist rebels that got their asses whooped by the saviors of the black race, there really wasn't any option other than to follow along with what daddy gov wants. This shit has always bothered me because I have learned, if every bit of information coming from everyone that talks about it all says the same exact thing word for word, then I can't help but see it as bullshit that is being pushed by the winners club.
I don't even believe the South would have been that good of a separate country because of the limits on resources, and how they would have most likely ostracized themselves from most of the other trading nations due to their verbal stance on upholding slavery. Which is another reason that they would have ended up abolishing the practice anyway. In the end I think the whole affair was made worse by everyone meddling after the last shot was fired, but it doesn't matter because the large populace isn't going to change their mind about an event that not only happened over 150 years ago, but is pretty much set as a "cannon event" ( god I feel like a fag for typing that out) for this country. It's so over bois :(
 
China never had great empires or culture by Western standards outside of when it was conquered by steppe peoples including the Mongols. Their silk was only valuable outside of China and whoever controlled the Silk Road controlled China.

China's greatest strength was as an agrarian nation but the vast majority of its wars were always civil wars. They do not defend against outside invaders very well. They have always been a regional power that looked like a world power but would never be able to engage in a direct conflict because a civil war would erupt and overthrow the current government. Their geography boxes them in, and without it Indians would've laid waste to them as well.
 
Friedrich Nietzsche was just a depressed fuckup that published his depressed diaries. Was a friend of Wagner who was good with musical composition, tried his hand in that too. Was shit at it and eventually turned on Wagner because he was depressed.
Tried to get published more, everyone ignored him and called him retarded, wrote a new totally unreadable mess without pacing in depression.
Wanted to get with a girl, girl got snatched by a mate of his whom he trusted to be his wingman, got depressed and wrote a new fucking book.

Nothing he writes has proper pacing or is even somewhat defined. I am German and read the original fucking works and I wholeheartedly declare this man a spastic. Nowadays he would just depressed post on some Imageboard or post threads on twitter. I am still mad that I took the time to even read his shit
 
The minute the 13th amendment was passed we should have paid every nigger in the country the equivalent of $300 today, and free passage to get the fuck back to Africa. %95 of them would have jumped on the boat the minute they saw the cash.

Any Nigger convicted of a crime after the 13th amendment was passed should have been shipped back to Africa, exactly how the British dumped people in Australia.

In 1865, there wasn't a country on the fucking planet that would have questioned either of these policies. As time progressed we would see the true cost of slavery in north America.
 
Troon_Patrol dijo:
The minute the 13th amendment was passed we should have paid every nigger in the country the equivalent of $300 today, and free passage to get the fuck back to Africa. %95 of them would have jumped on the boat the minute they saw the cash.

Any Nigger convicted of a crime after the 13th amendment was passed should have been shipped back to Africa, exactly how the British dumped people in Australia.

In 1865, there wasn't a country on the fucking planet that would have questioned either of these policies. As time progressed we would see the true cost of slavery in north America.
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When Blacks were offered the chance to go to Liberia they usually turned it down, many of them reacting with outright horror. Didn't want to go back to Africa, there were cannibals there!
 
Filipinos should have been colonized by the Japanese and remained as such. The independence given to them by the Commonwealth is one of the biggest mistakes for both countries at large.
 
Sometimes group I don't like good and cool and sometimes group I do like is bad and evil.
 
Meth Until Death dijo:
This line right here makes me think you're taking the piss
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Not at all. Bear-baiting tortures bears AND dogs to death for the audience's amusement. It has a living victim and is purely sadistic. Iroquois cannibalism that I know of (they may have done other types) involved eating the organs of dead loved ones in order to gain powers associated with the organ. It violates a strong European taboo (aside from that Europeans were committing all kinds of medical cannibalism in those days), but it doesn't have an actual victim.

I'm sure Iroquois probably had some fucked up thing they did to animals, but my point with it is that people point to specific things as examples of Indian backwardness, but Europeans did all kinds of horrifying shit in those days too. In the balance I think the Indians lived better lives than Europeans of the same day did up until maybe the Second Industrial Revolution. The worst thing I see with being an Indian is that they must have had a much higher death rate from warfare in the Enlightenment Era, but at least that was in service to the tribe's good and not their faggot king's claim to some principality a million miles away.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug dijo:
Not at all. Bear-baiting tortures bears AND dogs to death for the audience's amusement. It has a living victim and is purely sadistic. Iroquois cannibalism that I know of (they may have done other types) involved eating the organs of dead loved ones in order to gain powers associated with the organ. It violates a strong European taboo (aside from that Europeans were committing all kinds of medical cannibalism in those days), but it doesn't have an actual victim.

I'm sure Iroquois probably had some fucked up thing they did to animals, but my point with it is that people point to specific things as examples of Indian backwardness, but Europeans did all kinds of horrifying shit in those days too. In the balance I think the Indians lived better lives than Europeans of the same day did up until maybe the Second Industrial Revolution.
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Eating people is worse than animal abuse, no matter how hard you spin it. It is backwards and it shocked the Europeans, who by your reckoning were accustomed to it.

Don't get me wrong, I think Indian history is pretty interesting, especially in regards to the Mesoamericans but I don't get rosy eyed about it. The Euros didn't have ritualised torture enshrined in Christianity that was endorsed by the Church.
 
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