Recent content by Blueskies

You're quoting among other things, secondary sources that interpret and twist the situation as they like. The South was absolutely fighting for state's rights. It's just those rights were primarily the rights to own other people as slaves.

You're strawmaning me. I said in some aspects. I didn't say the confederacy was worse than Stalin. Murder is of course horrible, but it's not the only way to violate someone's rights. Did Stalin forcibly breed Russians for his own enrichment? Did he keep a harem of women that he regularly raped?

That's cute and all, but I prefer to go straight to the horse's mouth: Texas: "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...

This is false, and complete revisionist history. Please read the declarations of independence of the various confederate states. Almost all of them cite slavery as the primary reason for this succession. And yes, the south really believed in individual rights. All those slaves had so many...

Huh? What does any of this have to do with the price of tea in China? My point is simply this: The Confederacy was a very evil, very anti-liberty government. One of the most anti-liberty governments in at least the last 300 years. So for someone who claims to support liberty, defending or...

Please tell me how a government whose existence was devoted to keeping almost half its population in total slavery from cradle to grave was in way compatible with the tenants of liberty. You'll fight against an income tax because you don't want the state to take a portion of your income, but...

I said "in many ways" not in all ways. In many ways, perhaps most ways, Stalin and Hitler were worse than the confederacy. The confederacy didn't round up and exterminate millions of people, for example, or wage wars of conquest. It didn't engage in purges. It wasn't obsessed with world...

In what way? Sure, the Civil War was a horrific event. Millions of dollars were wasted; hundreds of thousands of Americans died. But the Confederacy was a government literally devoted to keeping almost 40% of its people in bondage. No rights. Rape, torture, murder, mating like animals, the...

Libertarian support for The Confederacy really bothers me. It was an evil police state; one of the most anti-liberty governments of all time. It's easy to criticize Lincoln and many things the Union did, but you can not be pro-liberty and also support the confederacy.

Precisely the opposite, AF. Look at what the proliferation of smartphones has done to expose policy brutality. 20, even 10 years ago, it was laughed off. Now nearly everyone recognizes it.

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George Will is an idiot.

Can you stop nitpicking? There are about 50 people in the entire country that make their own potato chips (and that's being generous). If someone said, "I had some potato chips with sandwich at lunch" there's a 99.9% chance that they're referring to a bag of Fritolays, or Better Made, or some...

When I say "potato chips" I don't mean those made with potatoes you've grown in your garden and fried with organic oil. I mean what the overwhelming majority of Americans consider potato chips -- a bag of processed garbage from the Pepsi company. Ditto cake.

Uh....what? First, people are indeed dying from cake and potato chips. Obesity is one of the leading causes of death. If you want to eat unhealthy foods, that's your prerogative, you'll just have to limit your portions or accept the resulting weight gain -- and by extension, increased risk of...