Without industrializing the North could have lost the war to the South as they would have been more evenly matched. The North needed to win the political battle, the war, and then after the war, the culture war. They won the first two, but we are still fighting the culture war.
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5·1 day agoThis is what the incoming Trump administration wants to do to the US.
My point is the North employed violence in the form of a successful military campaign to maintain the Union. Where the North failed was following up with a re-education campaign to squash southern propaganda, such as the myth of the Lost Cause.
The Federal Government’s current preferred medium of communication is UAVs. They leave little room for further discussion and semantics.
Also, the North’s industrialization which allowed the North to outman, outgun, and outrailroad the South.
https://www.nps.gov/articles/industry-and-economy-during-the-civil-war.htm
A jaywalker doesn’t petition the town council to cross the street illegally. They jaywalk. A state seceding could involve as little as a governor declaring their state left the Union. At that point the ball would be in the Federal Government’s court to set the record straight, to clarify that the state in fact did not secede.
They can be North Texas, West Texas, Central Texas, East Texas, and South Texas.
As we learned from the American Civil War, the southern states were incapable of seceding. However this isn’t the question at hand. The above user asked this:
What’s the process like?
There is no such process.
States can not secede from the Union. That was Lincoln’s rational for reforming the Union. Since states didn’t have the right to leave, they had never left to begin with.
https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/secessiontableofcontents.htm
And before anyone brings it up, Texas cannot secede.
1·2 days agoNot sure if you noticed, but the attitude in America is dominated by proud ignorance and failure to discern real data from propaganda.
The people who know better have to educate the people who do not. There are people who aren’t trapped in right-wing information silos who are interested in learning. But there have to be people who are willing to teach.
Not yet, but the stage is set for that scenario.
There are worse case scenarios after that one as well unless we work to make things better.
That time is past.
People are always coping. Might as well do it in a way that is enjoyable and doesn’t require us to misrepresent our current and approaching circumstances as the worst case scenarios, when there are worse.
I was going to refer you to a doctor who is also a ninja to learn more about using humor to deal with stressful situations. But his website is down. So you get to read these instead.
This explains what RCPs and SSPs are.
These are SSP scenarios.
https://www.vox.com/22620706/climate-change-ipcc-report-2021-ssp-scenario-future-warming
This was considered to be the worst case RCP scenario. But I wouldn’t be surprised if there has been some new work done on this.
Presumably researchers will need to start looking at what were considered to be less likely scenarios given the results of this election.
That is the publicly stated plan of this most recent Trump administration.
https://www.npr.org/2024/11/06/nx-s1-5181891/trump-win-climate-change-fossil-fuels-clean-energy
You don’t understand. We ALREADY tried the Trump thing and it failed miserably.
I was there. I’m from the 20th century. I remember the videos of college students on our campus running around late at night like chickens with their heads cut off.
We don’t listen. We don’t learn.
We don’t with that attitude.
We’re doubtful to ever experience a more black and white election than what we just experienced. And we still managed to fail.
I would love to see the encounter table you’re referencing. Rather than assuming things are as bad as they could possibly be, they aren’t, I recommend using humor as a coping mechanism. The former, assuming things, plays into accelerationism which falsely, without evidence, claims there is some bottom to how bad things can get. The latter, humor, is enjoyable.
We already haven’t.
It’s a week since election day.
We already have.
It’s a week since election day.
This was the most blatant decision we’re ever likely to make as a society in our lifetimes.
This was the most blatant decision we’re ever likely to make as a society in our lifetimes so far.
We have enough of those people to do this for the majority of Americans?
Only one way to find out.
Pessimism may feel true, but just because something feels true doesn’t make it true.
No one knows the future. But if we don’t learn from out mistakes, it’s likely we will keep making them.
The fascists are saying that since their political party won the election, men can threaten to rape women. Not fascist men, any man. Not progressive women, any woman. Avoid agreeing with them by imitating them.
That sounds clever, but it’s still a rape threat, so don’t.
19·4 days agoNamely, even though they were all, broadly speaking, Christians
The majority of the founders were deists.
https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Founding-Fathers-Deism-and-Christianity-1272214
Although orthodox Christians participated at every stage of the new republic, Deism influenced a majority of the Founders. The movement opposed barriers to moral improvement and to social justice. It stood for rational inquiry, for skepticism about dogma and mystery, and for religious toleration. Many of its adherents advocated universal education, freedom of the press, and separation of church and state. If the nation owes much to the Judeo-Christian tradition, it is also indebted to Deism, a movement of reason and equality that influenced the Founding Fathers to embrace liberal political ideals remarkable for their time.
it was only a matter of time before someone whose religion was not agreeable to take over and start doing things that you don’t like
Not just a disagreeable religion, but any religion.
https://firstamendment.mtsu.edu/article/establishment-clause-separation-of-church-and-state/
Both Jefferson and fellow Virginian James Madison felt that state support for a particular religion or for any religion was improper. They argued that compelling citizens to support through taxation a faith they did not follow violated their natural right to religious liberty. The two were aided in their fight for disestablishment by the Baptists, Presbyterians, Quakers, and other “dissenting” faiths of Anglican Virginia.
The christo-fascist MAGA movement is not consistent with the origins of our nation and the Constitution despite originalists claims to the contrary. We are not a christian nation, but a secular nation. All religions, including Christianity, were deemed dangerous to mix with the government.
I’m sure you didn’t mean anything by it in your argument, but these misconceptions are what the MAGA movement will use to push christian nationalism on all of us and to exclude people based on their faith or lack of faith.
102·4 days agoHarris promised to do everything in her power to end the war in Gaza.
“This year has been difficult, given the scale of death and destruction in Gaza and given the civilian casualties and displacement in Lebanon, it is devastating. And as president, I will do everything in my power to end the war in Gaza, to bring home the hostages, end the suffering in Gaza, ensure Israel is secure, and ensure the Palestinian people can realise their right to dignity, freedom, security and self-determination,” Harris said to applause during a rally in East Lansing city of Michigan, home to 200,000 Arab Americans.
That’s where cult deprogramming comes into play. There are people who specialize in getting people out of that kind of mindset your argument describes. The rest of us need to do our part and educate, even if it doesn’t always have the impact we hope in the moment.
We’re not dead yet. So we’re still fighting.