The whole thing about "cold wars" is they're a lie, it's a war where the people talking about it are sitting too far away to feel the flames Vietnam didn't feel very "cold" to the people who were actually there And the US has *always* been in a "race war", just a "cold" one
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What it means when a cold war "goes hot" is just that the flames come home, the pain of war gets too close to the people voting for it and profiting from it for them to ignore This was the explicitly stated logic behind, say, Sherman's March to the Sea
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People talking all this shit about their terror and dread over "riots" America, sowing: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!! America, reaping: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
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Or as a certain gentleman from Illinois put itpic.twitter.com/F5sd2RnbYJ
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Slavery was the economic foundation of the United States The total wealth piled up by this country and its global trading partners as a result of it amounts to trillions in today's money
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It would be nice to see that money peacefully transferred but you know what if that's just permanently off the table, burning it all is a good second place settlement
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The number of deaths that can be directly attributed to the trans-Atlantic slave trade is about 20 million (and even using that number is an obscenity because it ignores all the lives shortened by slavery and all the long lives utterly wasted by it)
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That river of blood everyone whines about from the American Civil War? 620k battlefield deaths When it comes to servicing debts, 620k against 20 million is barely a down payment
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