Correcting a popular misconception, shared in particular by a friend of mine

But you're mussing with the revisionist history, this time not to make the slavers the heroic saviours, but to put the blame on the Democrats - not the Confederacy - even though the Confederacy had no parties and skip the "I will do anything to preserve the Union..." & "... to win this war..." Lincoln quotes, because he loved the Negros, as exhibited by his issuing of the Emancipation Proclamation that preceded the war yadda yadda the Dems are now time travelling to alter history welcome to the era of deliberate stupidity what's with the Nembutal I need coffee.

The Confederate Constitution also forbade any individual state from abolishing slavery. Owning slaves was seen as an individual right that no state could take away.

A pity it got only 5 votes. Well, 6 now.

I do this with anyone who irrationally scraps with me. It restores some of my faith in humanity if there is at least one thing we can agree on.

8 months old isn’t too bad. I’ve seen worse.

Epstein memes almost got an upvote but conspiracies, even ones that are obviously or probably true, are not good foundations to find common ground.

We must disagree. Truth is always a good common ground, at least for those who choose not to be blinded merely because the CIA manfactured an @$$-covering "ooh kooky conspiracy theorists" dynamic to cover themselves after America's first military coup. But suit yourself.

There is a difference between truth and evidence. This is the problem with conspiracy theories. The absence of evidence doesn't mean truth. I'm not saying conspiracies can't be proven or that they aren't true, I'm just saying it's not a good common ground. Common ground, again, requires an actual foundation. And you can't establish a foundation on theories that may never be proven.

My contention is that the crux is not a lack of evidence, but a specific agenda to suppress it. Since I prefer to research things for myself rather than mechanically accept sometimes comical received academic wisdom, I come by a very different perception of the information dynamics.