They.
Were.
Still.
Slaves.
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She was reminding people of the crucial role slavery played in the founding of this country. He implied that it wasn’t that bad because slaves received “decent” food and housing and tried to minimize the role played by slavery.
No, it doesn’t sound like he was contradicting her, merely accusing her of exaggerating.
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He did, but Nixon is widely though of as the turnaround agent on this stuff.
Well, yeah… until the last … almost 8 years. Oh, and then there’s
Roe and the Civil Rights act, and Emancipation, and the New Deal, and the Great Society.
Is anti-vax a Republican position now? I thought dangerous kookiness defied party affiliation.
The anti-vax thing is a cross party insanity. I knew quite a few Alex Jones types that were all anti-vax.
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It wasn’t even a new strategy… he ripped it off from Nixon.
Eh, if we’re digging deep into origins, Barry Goldwater’s got Nixon beat. Nixon and Reagan both studied at his feet (and a young Hilary Clinton was there, too, while Sanders was getting arrested at civil rights’ rallies).
The thing Reagan did differently was that he was successful and people liked him, so he’s just the success they’d like to repeat.
But by all means, stick Nixon or Goldwater in that short skirt. 
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The original…the best.
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Already there.
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the government, which stopped hiring slave labor in 1802. However, the feds did not forbid subcontractors from using slave labor
An excuse which is literally more than 210 years old, and I hear it every week.
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“At this festive season of the year, Mr Scrooge, … it is more than usually desirable that we should make some slight provision for the Poor and destitute, who suffer greatly at the present time. Many thousands are in want of common necessaries; hundreds of thousands are in want of common comforts, sir.”
“Are there no prisons?”
“Plenty of prisons…”
“And the Union workhouses.” demanded Scrooge. “Are they still in operation?”
“Both very busy, sir…”
“Those who are badly off must go there.”
“Many can’t go there; and many would rather die.”
“If they would rather die,” said Scrooge, “they had better do it, and decrease the surplus population.”
- Charles Dickens, A Christmas Carol
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They were so well treated that it would have been immoral to let them choose for themselves!
It’s like defending rape by praising the quality of the attacker’s sexual attentions.
Ugh
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