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stopdiggin

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11. so no point in trying, right?

Reply to roamer65 (Reply #10)

Mon May 29, 2023, 12:12 PM

May 2023

not really all that important after all ...
"this too shall pass .. "

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GIVEN HISTORY OF THE U.S, WE ARE LUCKY TO BE IN EXISTENCE AS A TOTAL COUNTRY, 50 STATES [View all] Stuart G May 2023 OP

Why are you shouting? Ocelot II May 2023 #1

Personally, I don't think that's a good thing Marius25 May 2023 #2

Hmm... anciano May 2023 #3

What should've been done was the leading traitors, pols and generals should've been hung... brush May 2023 #5

Then the rest of the South would have hated us even more Polybius May 2023 #23

You don't know that. That's the reason you hang traitors. What happened... brush May 2023 #24

They wouldn't have "given up" if they were gonna be hanged ITAL May 2023 #25

BS. The south got beaten badly. Reconstruction with US troops... brush May 2023 #26

Think again ITAL May 2023 #27

All the verbosity and I have one question? brush May 2023 #28

Why? ITAL May 2023 #29

Guess you were against the Nurmberg Trials too? brush May 2023 #30

Nuremberg Trials were different ITAL May 2023 #31

Get real. You know very well I'm talking about holding traitors and war criminals accountable. brush May 2023 #33

... ITAL May 2023 #35

Only a tiny percent of Nazi leadership was executed or imprisoned. former9thward May 2023 #34

Your second sentence is very true. former9thward May 2023 #32

Lincoln, Gen Grant and Gen. Sherman...without them we'd... brush May 2023 #4

Nah. roamer65 May 2023 #6

Possible. But if the south had won because before Grant and Sherman... brush May 2023 #7

Some sort of banana republic. roamer65 May 2023 #8

So how is that different than it being a separate nation like I said? brush May 2023 #14

You asked what they would have done. roamer65 May 2023 #16

If they had won they would've been a separate nation. brush May 2023 #21

even on DU, even on this date stopdiggin May 2023 #9

Rome thought it would last forever, too. roamer65 May 2023 #10

so no point in trying, right? stopdiggin May 2023 #11

It will pass. roamer65 May 2023 #12

I think the 'conceit' stopdiggin May 2023 #17

That would be for people of said northern states to decide through referendum. roamer65 May 2023 #19

I don't want to call it "luck" when it was the work of thoughtful, courageous people FakeNoose May 2023 #13

But I always try to remember that those "accomplishments" came at a heavy price. roamer65 May 2023 #15

Yes of course, thanks for the reminder FakeNoose May 2023 #18

... roamer65 May 2023 #20

A couple of things BannonsLiver May 2023 #22

...."Full of people who hate each other"....quote...How full is that? Yes, lots of people but the Stuart G May 2023 #36

You don't think or haven't noticed the country is divided? BannonsLiver May 2023 #37