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Originally Posted by mjkidd
This is very true. Officers like Sherman who correctly predicted a very long and very bloody war were thought to be insane. But the libertarians aren't the only ones with revisionist history here; Fly et al who saying that Lincoln's intent was to free the slaves at the outset of the war are wrong as well.
I know if you were better at reading you probably wouldn't believe so much neoconfederate horse****, but I never said that. I don't think anyone else said that. Not in this thread, at least.
Like, pvn generally just skims threads and scripts his first 15 or so posts per thread, so he's doing the same thing. Nobody is saying Lincoln was a saint or the Union were flawless heroes. The United States government has been doing awful **** to various people since 1776.
The issue here is about Ron Paul making **** up, **** that even if it was true is morally reprehensible(The slaveowners had NO RIGHT TO COMPENSATION FOR THEIR SLAVES, northern states abolished slavery without a buyout for ****'s sake, though again I'm 99% that even after reading this sentence you guys will doubt that happened) and pvn defending that before randomly backtracking to lol agree with me and Wookie.