• Lembot_0006
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    29 天前

    Slavery looks no more than just an excuse. “Bad local laws” in the neighbourhood should never be a reason for annexation.

    • Zorque@lemmy.world
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      29 天前

      Only if “bad federal laws” (re: laws that don’t allow us to benefit from the subjugation of an entire people) aren’t a good reason for secession.

    • PugJesus@piefed.social
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      29 天前

      “Bad local laws” in the neighbourhood should never be a reason for annexation.

      Uh, I didn’t realize you were an advocate for a wealthy minority holding secession votes at gunpoint.

        • PugJesus@piefed.social
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          29 天前

          Yes, particularly in Virginia, where armed Confederate soldiers ‘monitored’ the vote, in addition to out-of-state Confederate soldiers casting votes in the election.

    • NOT_RICK@lemmy.world
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      29 天前

      The north didn’t force South Carolina to fire at Fort Sumter. I find your hand waiving away the evil that was chattel slavery to be weird and gross, too.