Adam Something is a favorite of mine.

Don’t worry: JFK, Jr. will be pulling into New York harbor any day now on the newly raised Titanic, to proclaim the reign of god-king Trump, and the woke crowd is going to be screwed.

What a shpadoinkle word!

Making an important distinction, my friend.

I liked Google+, mostly because it wasn’t Facebook, I guess.

I dug the whole album, but this is a banger for sure.

I guess what I want is a suggestion for a good history of the labor movement.

Are there any good resources that give an overview of some of this stuff? I must confess my ignorance, but your words are stirring and I want to know more.

pink…eye…

Interesting. Looking at the Business Plot, it looks like Smedley Butler may just be a new hero of mine. Thank God they chose someone who wouldn’t go along with their crap.

How is it legal for him to use funds raised for a political campaign on his personal legal fees? Isn’t this a kind of fraud or something?

As discussed elsewhere in the comments, the Union should have crushed the southern elites until this nonsense was dead for good. As a modern southerner, I can attest that was the time to deal with this foolishness.

The last few years have taught me the flag they’re effectively honoring is not the stars and stripes at all. Honestly, the situation today is kind of like them awakening to the fact that they were Confederate traitors all along and not only acknowledging it, but being proud of it.

In a sense, it was about an economic system: slavery. Economic freedom for me, not for thee.

As a born and bred southerner, I wish Reconstruction had continued with harsh penalties until the freedmen would be able to retain their stake in government without the backing of the Union Army. As it was, after the compromise following the election of 1876, the Republicans effectively sold out the former slaves for thirty pieces of silver. Of course things went right back to white supremacy, just with different words for the institutions–not to be funny, but it was literally slavery with extra steps (sharecropping, Jim Crow, poll taxes, literacy tests, and the like).

There were so many missed opportunities from the late war to that election. I’ve always thought land redistribution to the freed slaves (aka “forty acres and a mule”) would have gone a long way towards establishing a class of black landowners while eating away at the power and wealth of their former masters. That kind of economic freedom would have gone a long way towards ensuring personal freedoms could be defended and retained. Simultaneously giving poor whites more education and economic freedom could have robbed the elites of their mob over time.

As it turned out, they created a stratified set of underclasses, with African-Americans at the bottom all over again.

Anyway, it would have been a mercy to white trash like myself and freed slaves to just crush the old master class until they couldn’t rise again. Lincoln was wrong about letting the Confederates up easy. Maybe if Andrew Johnson’s impeachment had resulted in a conviction, things would have been different. Again, so many missed opportunities…

Gentlemen, gentlemen! There’s no need to fight!

However, if you would continue, I would be greatly amused.

NOTE: No offense intended with the “gentlemen” line if either of you is not male–I’m just trying to preserve the spirit of this Victorian era-style psuedoscientific slap fight.

Being one of the lesser-endowed, I’ll allow it.

As a South Carolinian, I’m afraid for my mixed race family. I’m going to be getting my son a passport (my wife and I already have ours) and I’m seriously considering fleeing the country if the Confederacy rises again. I will not live in a nation where my wife and son may not be considered equal. I’ve lived here my whole life, and I used to think we were past all the racism and stuff like the Klan. The last 8 years have shown me how wrong I was. I’ve lost a lot of former friends to this, and I’m ready to go back to living somewhere I don’t have to worry about basic human rights, democracy, and the basic decency of my neighbors.