History Trivia Thread Reducks

[Eddie Teach]

The CSA was a democracy and thus unable to enforce suicide on its population against their will. The USA was also a democracy, and the South was thus unwilling to fight to the death.

[Lettow77]

 Oh, I know. I just wish it had- the South's sacrifices are enormous, without american paralell and admirable worthy of veneration, but paraguay's efforts on such an ill-gotten cause gave me pause.

[Viking]

Oh, I know. I just wish it had- the South's sacrifices are enormous, without american paralell and admirable worthy of veneration, but paraguay's efforts on such an ill-gotten cause gave me pause.

Paraguay fought for independence from it's neighbors by gaining access to the sea. The confederates fought to keep black pipple as slaves.

[Razgovory]

The CSA was a democracy and thus unable to enforce suicide on its population against their will. The USA was also a democracy, and the South was thus unwilling to fight to the death.

I don't know if CSA could be classified as a democracy.  I know South Carolina didn't have universal manhood sufferage.  In fact it was rather restrictive.  I don't know about the rest of the States.

[Lettow77]

 Universal suffrage is required to be a democracy? If that is so, I am adamantly opposed to democracy as you style it.

Also, the notion that paraguay was fighting anything but an aggressive and unprovoked war is laughable.

[Barrister]

Universal suffrage is required to be a democracy? If that is so, I am adamantly opposed to democracy as you style it.

Also, the notion that paraguay was fighting anything but an aggressive and unprovoked war is laughable.

Still can't stand biving blacks the vote, huh?

[Razgovory]

Universal suffrage is required to be a democracy? If that is so, I am adamantly opposed to democracy as you style it.

Also, the notion that paraguay was fighting anything but an aggressive and unprovoked war is laughable.

I didn't say universal suffrage.  I'm not even talking about letting blacks vote.  I'm talking about a system that wouldn't have let you vote.

[Lettow77]

 I support not letting me vote. Voting should be restricted to 25+ year olds who contribute more money to the government than they withdraw. 

Anyway, barrister, any reason your trolling? I cannot imagine your sincere.

(I was thinking that it'd be quite the clever coup to give homemakers generous tax incentives. By giving housewives government funds, and mothers even more, we encourage a positive lifestyle while at the same time running women into a defecit that denies them the right to vote in a discrete method, while allowing angry feminists to still feel they have suffrage.)

[Barrister]

Still can't stand biving blacks the vote, huh?

I support not letting me vote. Voting should be restricted to 25+ year olds who contribute more money to the government than they withdraw. 

So I was right.   

Anyway, barrister, any reason your trolling? I cannot imagine your sincere.

Because I couldn't believe that you'd be a fucking apologist for the afrikaaners and apartheid.  But I guess you just are a racist.

[Lettow77]

 Sorry you feel that way. I think government should be in the hands of those who pay for it- the people who have a stake in the country should be those who determine its destiny. Responsible government that has to be earned would turn the country around.

And, what has happened since apartheid is apartheid's best apologist.

[The Brain]

Let's keep the thread on topic, shall we?

[Lettow77]

 My apologies. The civil war hijack is an old standby.

[Pat]

It's HVC's turn but I don't think he's realized this yet

[Pat]

How long before someone doesn't ask a question until the floor is open?

[Syt]

Ca. 24 hours.