All this supreme court business has got me thinking. Why don't you chaps just devolve into separate nations, east and west, north and south, however you want to do it. You can have the atheistic baby-killers in one half and the inbreeding Crusaders in the other. Everyone will be happy (maybe you could even have a war over it, just to make the whole thing fully American).
What do you say, a spot of cathartic national self-determination? It'll keep you from invading any more third world countries for a while, if nothing else.
Originally posted by VillagerYou must be having a bad day with the sheep and/or Irish.
All this supreme court business has got me thinking. Why don't you chaps just devolve into separate nations, east and west, north and south, however you want to do it. You can have the atheistic baby-killers in one half and the inbreeding Crusaders in the other. Everyone will be happy (maybe you could even have a war over it, just to make the whole thing f ...[text shortened]... tion? It'll keep you from invading any more third world countries for a while, if nothing else.
Originally posted by VillagerYour sarcasm aside, I think a more decentralised government would be a good thing for the United States. Canada as well.
All this supreme court business has got me thinking. Why don't you chaps just devolve into separate nations, east and west, north and south, however you want to do it. You can have the atheistic baby-killers in one half and the inbreeding Crusaders in the other. Everyone will be happy (maybe you could even have a war over it, just to make the whole thing f ...[text shortened]... tion? It'll keep you from invading any more third world countries for a while, if nothing else.
Originally posted by VillagerThey patronize and marginalize anyone who doesn't agree with them . Even their own people . Don't take it personally , they treat everyone like sh1t who doesn't drink the kool-aid .
Testy, no. My particular resentment of your lot was this morning provoked by one of your condescending government officials pronouncing that we had no right of protest at the G8 summit.
I think with the big issue of slavery an exception , everyone may have been better off if the rebels had won the civil war and we were a weaker confederacy .
Originally posted by Moldy CrowMy Civil War history is not so great but wasn't the premise of the war actually based around taxes imposed by the Union onto the Confederate states, and not slavery as some would have you believe...
They patronize and marginalize anyone who doesn't agree with them . Even their own people . Don't take it personally , they treat everyone like sh1t who doesn't drink the kool-aid .
I think with the big issue of slavery an exception , everyone may have been better off if the rebels had won the civil war and we were a weaker confederacy .
Originally posted by darvlayThe war was more about states' rights versus the Federal government. Slavery was a minor issue, that has become the "popular" cause for the war.
My Civil War history is not so great but wasn't the premise of the war actually based around taxes imposed by the Union onto the Confederate states, and not slavery as some would have you believe...