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  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Senate Republicans reject Democrat deal to reopen government
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    10 months ago

    Oh. Yeah. I really shouldn’t post late at night after drinking. Although I was surprisingly coherent despite my brain not fully working.

    Schumer’s efforts during the shutdown aren’t really connected to the last paragraph. I was rambling and the two thoughts aren’t connected. Philosophically I have strong doubts that anyone in his position wouldn’t be swayed by special interest money, but that is a conversation for a different place. I’ll edit my original post when I’m a little more awake

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtopolitics @lemmy.world•Senate Republicans reject Democrat deal to reopen government
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    10 months ago

    It’s simple, really. You can’t get an economic downturn without human misery. And the big money people can’t consolidate their holdings and acquire profitable companies at bargain basement prices if the economy is doing well. They don’t want some messy financial crisis or pandemic creating unexpected problems. They want a predictable downturn that only affects the poors and a few unlucky upper middle class types. Then they can keep the funding they want and have a large and desperate labor pool to staff their newly acquired holdings. Win-win, at least for the people that matter.

    You know. Not us

    It’s not that “both sides are the same”. It’s just that enough on all sides are bought and paid for that it doesn’t matter if a few actually are trying to do good. Personally I don’t see a reality where Schumer is not bought and paid for. And any efforts to circumvent the powers that be will be a nonstarter while the compromised ones hold power

    Edit: While the last part is still something I believe, I posted this late at night and started rambling. It’s not relevant to the OP and can be picked up in a more appropriate conversation another time

  • SirSamuel@lemmy.worldtoPolitical Memes@lemmy.world•Civil war
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    10 months ago

    That’s a really interesting read. I’ve taken excerpts from each state’s declarations, in case anyone wants a state by state breakdown of their justification for secession

    Georgia: “A brief history of the rise, progress, and policy of anti-slavery and the political organization into whose hands the administration of the Federal Government has been committed will fully justify the pronounced verdict of the people of Georgia.”

    Mississippi: “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world”

    South Carolina: “The right of property in slaves was recognized by giving to free persons distinct political rights, by giving them the right to represent, and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves; by authorizing the importation of slaves for twenty years; and by stipulating for the rendition of fugitives from labor.”

    Texas: “She [Texas] was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which her people intended should exist in all future time.”

    Virginia: "…and the Federal Government, having perverted said powers, not only to the injury of the people of Virginia, but to the oppression of the Southern Slaveholding States.”