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[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

Excellent point!

[sneakypete]

But not for us.

@Slide Rule

I am ASSUMING there is an explanation for this,and would LOVE to hear it.

Granted,this has NO linkage to our own  borders because the politicians in power seem to LOVE open borders in America.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

EXCELLENT point,and one I hadn't even considered.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

Not a single thing will be done to punish these creatures. Not ONE.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule


To be fair,Slow Joe is not to blame for any of that. His only responsibilities are to not say "I have to poopy" in front of a microphone,and to not lose his blankie.

A Committee of Comrades do the rest.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

Sounds like wunna those "kill two birds  with  one stone" things to me. They get to ship assault rifles to comrades,and by doing so reduce the number of assault rifles available in the US.

Win/Win for Globalism.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

Are those "Parachutist wings" I see on that creatures fatigues?

There is NO way in hell THAT creature would last even ONE day at at the Ft.Benning jump school.

Trust me on this  one.

[sneakypete]

Le Moron James

@Slide Rule

Is this true?

If it is,who  are the people on the board at Niky?

What are their names,and in what city,state,or country  are their primary residences located in?

[Bigun]

 

[sneakypete]

Le Moron James

@Slide Rule

Le Moron James

@Slide Rule

Is this true?

If it is,who  are the people on the board at Niky?

What are their names,and in what city,state,or country  are their primary residences located in?

BTW,is it just me,or does "China Girl" look to be undernourished AND pissed-off?

[Bigun]

Large operations could support large numbers of slaves. Smaller farms had few, if any, as the investment was substantial. Gold was only about $20 an ounce, and slaves were hundreds of even thousands of dollars each, in gold. DO the math in today's dollars: $500 was 25 ounces of gold, today roughly $50,000 Each bought slave was the price of a new car or more.

Poorer families did what poor families in labor intensive economies do: they had lots of kids. Compounded by problems with childbirth and sanitation, babies had fairly high mortality rates, and infections and sepsis were killers (no antibiotics).

But most folks couldn't afford slaves because their farms were not big enough because they did not have the labor. Kind of a circular problem. BTW ten acres of tobacco was a lot. Still is, because there is no machine to harvest the plants. Cotton didn't just support farmers, though, the crop supported shipping companies, mills, gins to remove seeds, and even though the North set up the laws so the machinery to build a textile industry in the south almost had to be purchased from northerners or foreigners who wanted to keep the markup between raw cotton or wool and finished fabrics and products, the South still had a budding textile industry at the onset of hostilities. While slavery has been given top billing as a casus belli by northern historians, tariffs which affected the south's ability to industrialize were  another factor. One of the reasons for the Anaconda Plan was to cut off trade between the South and virtually anywhere else, which only established a rollicking and overpriced black market in virtually anything the South could not produce for itself, not to mention commerce raiders (CSS Alabama, for instance) and blockade runners. That also led to the development of the first purpose built submarine to sink an enemy vessel and the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, built on the hull of the Merrimac.

You can believe the Fable, or really dig in and realize the situation was complicated. One thing led to another, sometimes seemingly unrelated.  As a side note, about the time the Confederacy ran out of gold and silver for the black markets (to obtain supplies), things got really tough and the war ended soon after. Ever wonder who got rich off of that trade? (me, too)

Excellent post @Smokin Joe Its good to know that there are still some around who didn't get everything they know about history from post 1865 public school history books.

[sneakypete]

Excellent post @Smokin Joe Its good to know that there are still some around who didn't get everything they know about history from post 1865 public school history books.

@Bigun

Ever wonder who got rich off of that trade?

Nope.

In general,they were known as "Carpet baggers",but the truth is they were just the front men for wealthy Yankee banking families.

The Civil War was about money,and nothing else. Slavery was just an excuse the public would swallow. The origins were the south deciding to ship cotton and other products to Europe though southern ports instead of paying the yankee banks to ship it through norther ports for them. It was primarily the big banks in NYC that handled all the trade back then,and they wanted to keep getting their cuts of ALL the international trade.

[240B]

[Bigun]

https://twitter.com/jjfThompson/status/1771893059589972153

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[240B]

[sneakypete]

No kidding!

There are also a hell of a lot more people.

[Smokin Joe]

Yeah, well, only about 4% of the African Slave trade came to the US.
But you'd think this nation was the only one to have slavery, ever.

[Slide Rule]

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Stolen.

[sneakypete]

@Slide Rule

Who says  there is never any good news?

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