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An American badass didn't give a f**k 160 years ago today...
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:30 pm
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:30 pm
On the night of August 5, 1864, at the height of the Battle of Mobile Bay, Union Rear Admiral David G. Farragut purposefully sailed his flagship - USS Hartford - into a minefield as his flotilla of ships stormed passed the Confederate guns of Fort Morgan. Famously uttering one of the great quotes in U.S. Navy history, "Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!" Admiral Farragut and his fleet of Union gunboats successfully ran past Fort Morgan and into the bay.
I can smell the salt from right here. The dude had been in the Navy since he was 12.

I can smell the salt from right here. The dude had been in the Navy since he was 12.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:31 pm to RollTide1987
quote:You sure you're not a closeted Aggie?
I can smell the salt from right here. The dude had been in the Navy since he was 12.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:31 pm to RollTide1987
War of northern aggression
Not much different than russia invading ukraine imo
Not much different than russia invading ukraine imo
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:36 pm to RollTide1987
quote:
A gotdamn yankee didn't give a f**k 160 years ago today...
FIFY
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:38 pm to Darth_Vader
Farragut was born in Tennessee and spent the entirety of his youth in the South.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:44 pm to RollTide1987
Look at those sleeve stripes. He's two promotions away from being the Hamburgler.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 2:53 pm to Master of Sinanju
Its like the Olympics, this board was against America in that conflict
Amazing the downvotes
Amazing the downvotes
Posted on 8/5/24 at 3:41 pm to RollTide1987
quote:
The dude had been in the Navy since he was 12.
True badass. We have progressively become a nation of pussies.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 3:45 pm to RollTide1987
If the Civil War was about "states rights" and not slavery, as asserted by so many confused Southerners, which "states rights" specifically was the Civil War about?
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:15 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
It was both. The yanks invaded to terminate the secession.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:16 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
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which "states rights" specifically was the Civil War about?
All of them?
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:16 pm to RollTide1987
Thought this was gonna be about kid rock
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:18 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Taxing the frick out of raw consumables via tariff because the Brits were willing to pay a lot more than the northern textile factories.
Whatever rights covered that.
Whatever rights covered that.
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:18 pm to RollTide1987
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Union
Soccer board
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:20 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
Tariffs, the ability to leave the union, sovereignty of the state
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:24 pm to Violent Hip Swivel
quote:
If the Civil War was about "states rights" and not slavery, as asserted by so many confused Southerners, which "states rights" specifically was the Civil War about?
The south fought against unfair taxes the Yankees put on them and their lack of representation in government
Then the Yankees “won” and nowadays you go sit in a wage cage 10 hours a day and get to pay the government 50% for doing it and your vote doesn’t count.
This post was edited on 8/5/24 at 4:41 pm
Posted on 8/5/24 at 4:32 pm to el Gaucho
Bruh, you are really going there? Your cubicle feels like literal slavery, what with the physical beatings, rapes, etc?
Posted on 8/6/24 at 7:25 am to Cosmo
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War of northern aggression
Not much different than the war of nato aggression
Fixed
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