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re: What’s an American history hot take you’ve got?
Posted on 8/19/26 at 5:53 pm to TDsngumbo
Posted on 8/19/26 at 5:53 pm to TDsngumbo
Not everyone in the South held that belief.
Arkansas for example was split on succession. The southern part of the state held more slaves and voted for succession.
The northern part of the state held way less slaves and voted to stay in the Union.
It wasn't until Lincoln ordered 700 Arkansas national guardsmen to go to Fort Sumter that Arkansas panicked and decided to join the Confederacy.
If that didn't happen Arkansas would likely had ended up neutral in the war.
Arkansas for example was split on succession. The southern part of the state held more slaves and voted for succession.
The northern part of the state held way less slaves and voted to stay in the Union.
It wasn't until Lincoln ordered 700 Arkansas national guardsmen to go to Fort Sumter that Arkansas panicked and decided to join the Confederacy.
If that didn't happen Arkansas would likely had ended up neutral in the war.
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Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:11 pm to grizzlylongcut
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I don’t feel bad at all for what happened to the Indians. They fricked around, they found out.
Agreed. Also the reservation system was a bad idea. They should’ve been forced to assimilate or die.
Also, how long do people think the status quo was going to continue?
Someone was going to conquer the New World.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:18 pm to Bjorn Cyborg
Slavery never ended. It was just redefined.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:23 pm to VooDude
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Hell I would go one step forward and ignored the Brits and just joined Germany to take the Soviets out. The Soviets only stood a chance because of US backing during the entire war.
Soviets were backed by the financial system.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:23 pm to kingbob
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State borders were drawn nearly as arbitrarily as borders in the Middle East and Africa, and this should be revisited in some way.
Maybe out west, but along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts the borders are pretty geographical
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:32 pm to Indefatigable
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Getting directly involved in WW1 was a mistake.
Agreed. And the same could be said of Great Britain. If they’d have stayed out, the war would most likely have been over before Christmas 1914 and Europe would have been spared the horrors of the Great War and everything that was to follow:
Collapse of the empires
Rise of communism
WWII
Tens of millions of deaths and unmeasurable misery of hundreds of millions more could have been avoided.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:33 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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Germany didn’t send Lenin back to Russia
Or just didn't invade France.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:43 pm to AlxTgr
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I saw you in the classes
Are you talking Simeon’s criminal procedure? I don’t remember the class where a person breaking into an occupied dwelling couldn’t get shot.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:45 pm to grizzlylongcut
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I don’t feel bad at all for what happened to the Indians.
This was not some apocalyptic genocide as the sky screamers on the Left would have you believe.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:52 pm to Milk
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The Deep State has always existed and puts people they can blackmail and easily control into high government office.
It started to an extent with the robber barons in the late 1800s but it was wealthy private businessmen deciding elections. Only after WW2 did the deep state we know now begin to exist. I.E the MIC, intelligence agencies, etc. Eisenhower saw it coming and feared it
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:54 pm to Raging Tiger
Databases did not exist back then. There was no way for them to definitively know how many hunting licenses there were in our country.
People are just so gullible.
People are just so gullible.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 6:55 pm to Tchefuncte Tiger
They had advantages over American settlers in warfare until the late 1800s.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:00 pm to grizzlylongcut
The Battle of the Little Big Horn was a draw.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:02 pm to grizzlylongcut
John Wayne Bobbitt should have never closed his eyes.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:05 pm to dblwall
If there wasn't an undercover FBI agent hell-bent on getting his shotgun barrel shortened, then you don't have Ruby Ridge, Waco, and OKC.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:07 pm to Sam Quint
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That goes for literally every country involved in WW1
I’m putting us in the category of nations that had a “choice”. Most of continental Europe didn’t
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:09 pm to Defenseiskey
quote:Yes my point, very ironic for a inward system that relies on central government allocation of production and supply chain management. Blow the soviets off the map in 1945 and 90% of today’s problems would have been solved.
Soviets were backed by the financial system.
Another poster mentioned “but, but what about the power vacuum with the massive soviet lands”. Well if they’re radiated, no one wants them. Think of it as a region to test our nuclear development instead of Nevada.
Without the USSR the Chinese would still be a region of peasants. Maybe Mongolia wants Siberia?
This post was edited on 8/19/26 at 7:11 pm
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:11 pm to Darth_Vader
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And the same could be said of Great Britain. If they’d have stayed out
There’s a little chicken or the egg thing going here, vis-a-vis Belgium.
I’m under no impression that the British cared about a piece of paper. But they sure as hell could not let the Kaiser take Antwerp without trying to stop it. The Treaty of London was convenient—and still a tortured decision admittedly.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:12 pm to VooDude
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Yes my point, very ironic for a inward system that relies on central government allocation of production and supply chain management.
Kind of, if you look at their backgrounds it makes a lot of sense.
Posted on 8/19/26 at 7:19 pm to grizzlylongcut
We should let the Japs have China. No oil embargo, no Pearl Harbor.
And then, when they did attack, the Pacific should have been our primary focus. Saving the Brits' arse got a lot of good men killed.
And then, when they did attack, the Pacific should have been our primary focus. Saving the Brits' arse got a lot of good men killed.
This post was edited on 8/19/26 at 7:22 pm
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