We could have avoided the Civil War if Lincoln had offered to teach southerners to code

Learn to cotton gin

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Meh, were Southerners all going bankrupt prior to the civil war?

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The Tariffs were designed to do just that..

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But were they doing it all on their own prior? You do realize that over the last 4 years the O&G industry has experienced record BKs

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Yes..from 1828 to the beginning of the war Tarriffs led directly to a reduction in exports from the south, increased cost of imports for goods they consumed more than the north, and economically impacted everyone living in cotton country. How it compares to oil..I don’t know

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Lincoln was our worst President, literally the first “king of America”. fricker ruined the Republic

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Suspended habeas corpus and freedom of the press in the north during the war.

Committed war crimes by today’s standards in the Confederate States.

Tyrant.

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Yes..from 1828 to the beginning of the war Tarriffs led directly to a reduction in exports from the south, increased cost of imports for goods they consumed more than the north, and economically impacted everyone living in cotton country. How it compares to oil..I don’t know

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You misunderstood the point, there are no tariffs bankrupting O&G. They're going bankrupt all on their own from a commodity price downturn beginning in '14 coupled with horrible mismanagement and damn near criminal misrepresentation of their reserves and cost structure. So unless you can analogize that to the pre-civil war era the square isn't fitting in the hole.

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Lincoln was our worst President, literally the first “king of America”. fricker ruined the Republic

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The atrocities he authorized during the war would be classified as crimes against humanity today.

And yet some on this board praise him.

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It’s fun to just make crap up and throw it out there isn’t it

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The above is the made up, thrown out crap. 1mmbo eur on an EF well. GFY!