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Some of the greatest thinkers of all time are Saint Augustine, Saint Aquinas, Hobbes, Burke, C.S. Lewis, Tolkien, G.K. Chesterton, Roger Scruton. Political philosophers, theologians, doctors of the church. Or geniuses. Whichever you prefer.

Also, Joe Biden's favorite philosopher was Kierkegaard and he cited him frequently in speeches.
I really feel like Chesterton is very underrated, he reads like a prophet these days. And not just because I love the ideal of Distributionism. I also feel like making an "Either/Or" joke about Biden, but I'm drawing a blank on how to make it work. Which sounds like a very Biden thing.
 
>complains about gotchas
>pulls one of his own
"state's right to what"?"
The state's right to SECEDE over the massive tariffs and lack of representation!
Massive tariffs that had a greater effect on the South due to their reliance on what institution?
Also, you said about how "slavery was only mentioned in slightly over half of the Causes of Secession". Ignoring that just over half isn't very flattering, I'd like you to find me a single example of any of those documents containing the word "tariff", since it was obviously the real reason behind the war.

Also, fun fact: In Alexander Stephens' Cornerstone Speech, the word "slave" and related words (enslavement, slavery, etc.) is said 11 times. The word "tariff" is said exactly once.
 
Massive tariffs that had a greater effect on the South due to their reliance on what institution?
Trade goods like cotton and tobacco, the former having the cotton gin which was already displacing the need for slaves.
And again, you keep ignoring the slave states in the Union. Not to mention West Virginia which was readmitted into the Union as a slave state in 1863.
 
It's a little ironic that people choose to be atheist despite the clear counterfactual that without the church like 90% of the population would still be serfs/slaves/whatever sub class of humans.
You mean the same Bible which has a guide to slave ownership? The church supported slavery and practiced it for centuries and centuries, and it was only Methodist heretics (who always believe women can be pastors) who started abolishing it.
Christianity has done more for the betterment of the human condition in 2000 years than science and Baal worship has in the entire existence of humanity. Polio cure ain't shit to banning the ownership of people.
Lol the church did nothing at all beside forcing everyone to follow a bastardized version of their ancestral faith where instead of worshipping their gods they worship Jews. Even medieval goatfuckers invented more for humanity than the church did because goatfuckers realized those ancient texts had something to it. Christianity is just another side of the same coin as Islam, and would be just as bad if the average Christian IQ were 75-80...oh wait, see the Christian parts of Africa or the ghetto.
 
Let's fucking goooooo
"The leadership changes have drawn internal consternation, in part because these officials didn’t have anything to do with prosecutions of Donald Trump, which have been the focus of the president’s ire."
Wait, weren't they just pissed a couple days ago that he was only firing officials related to that? The whiplash is a blast here, whew!
 
Any give a qrd on what Trump getting elected in 2016 felt like? (I wasn't that interested in politics back then) I heard the main difference between then and now is that it legit felt out of the blue. Like, no one expected Michigan and Pennsylvania to flip.
I had gone to bed relatively early that night, pretty sure my posts from here are still around, it'll be under the XYZpdq name, but I woke up shocked that he won, caught up on the onlines, headed into work at a financial joint so they weren't as HOORAH TRUMP as some of my gigs have been, but they were still pretty happy with At Least It's Not Hillary. I wasn't on the Trump Train until partway through the primaries, not that I thought the RNC's offerings were any better. Although I will be fair that I actually sorta like Jeb. I recall was happy it wasn't Hillary, thrilled at the salt, not sure where things were heading next.
A mushroom cloud will form from any sufficiently powerful enough explosion I believe.
iirc it's concentration, power relative to the space it's blowing up
 
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