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"Fucked" can also be an adjective, meaning "having no chance of success; completely broken or destroyed". It's still grammatically awkward, but not quite as bad as it being used as an intransitive verb.I love the ,, My Pronouns are Get and Fucked ,, shirt but man that would drive my ocd crazy to wear for more than a few hours ... get is a transitive verb and fucked in an intransitive verb ...
I can’t wrap my head around all of the super-patriot Americans who identify with the confederacy.
So you’re an American patriot, but you’re proud of/support a group that staged a literal rebellion against the United States of America?
Secession was written into the constitution and was a right every state had the guaranteed freedom to do. I know its hard to imagine that, but its true, and it was important.This is exactly my thinking on the Confederate flag. It represents what was essentially a foreign power making war on the United States, and killing at least 620,000 young men directly in battles. I do understand that to help efforts to reunite the union, Congress allowed statutes of Confederate leaders to be erected, bases to be named after Confederates and so on, and I don't support efforts to erase that history. At the same time, I wouldn't wear a confederate flag, as that can easily and usually correctly be seen as an endorsement of the revolt.
Secession was written into the constitution and was a right every state had the guaranteed freedom to do. I know its hard to imagine that, but its true, and it was important.
It wasn't a foreign power waging war on the united states. In actuality, the United States waged war against states exercising their freedoms. The Confederate States fought a defensive war, on their own soil.
It really was a turning point in our history, changing the definition and the dynamic of the federal government forever. If you ever wondered how the government has gotten so out of control, you don't have to look any farther back than the civil war.
i'll just edit to say it was so much a revolt as the states saying "thanks, but no thanks, the federal government isn't working for us and we the states will handle our own business from here". That was ok to do, unfathomable now, but not then. It wasn't an attack or a revolt, the states wanted peaceful relations with their neighbors in the union.
yea ill pick the debate up tomorrowCan you please cite this provision of the US Constitution?
Are you claiming that the Confederacy was not a foreign power after succeeding? Or are you claiming that the Confederacy didn't wage war? As I recall history, the Union troops moved to a US Federal base known as Ft. Sumpter, and put up an American flag. The Confederacy later fired on that fort, firing the first shots of the war. To be fair, South Carolina had just declared independence from the US, but Sumpter was still a federal installation. And, despite your assertion quoted above, there was no right of a state to succeed.
Meh, maybe, but I think it was the establishment of the Federal income tax and several horrid SCOTUS decisions, like Reynolds v Sims, Chevron and Wickard v Filburn, that put the Federal government out of control.
changed my mind. i didnt want the debate in the first place. the information is out there if anyone wants to find it but im not internet arguing things anymore. its become exhausting.yea ill pick the debate up tomorrow
I read this thread. I have a history degree and it's a fancy schmancy one. You the winner !!!!!!changed my mind. i didnt want the debate in the first place. the information is out there if anyone wants to find it but im not internet arguing things anymore. its become exhausting.
i dont have a degree in anything. im really not that smart to be honest.I read this thread. I have a history degree and it's a fancy schmancy one. You the winner !!!!!!
Yes but you were right and I am proud of youi dont have a degree in anything. im really not that smart to be honest.
thanks manYes but you were right and I am proud of you