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Originally Posted by roachboy
1. well, the civil war is a pretty big sorta unless you are thinking that the secession meant nothing--but if it meant nothing, then there wasn't a whole lot of point to the war, really--the question of which production regime would in the end be dominant could have been sorted out by other means and the question of slavery was ancillary, if you think about it.
even the endless war against the native americans was more ambiguously of the set that includes the elements "state force used against its own citizens."
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2. this:
is
at the point where
tips over into trolling.
and done without style, i might add.
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You were whining and being melodramatic with your 'They came for the' post, sorry, I call'em like I see them. You were already calling me a troll before them with this ...
the only reason ustwo introduced the civil war so far as i can tell was to trivialize the op.
No, I bought up the US Civil War because it was the most direct and strongest use of force ever to be seen by the US military on US civilians.
I enjoy making fun of hippies in any thread though, its a guilty pleasure of mine.