• EleventhHour
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    States’ rights to legal slavery

    • snooggums
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      Which we still have, but limited to prisons.

      California just voted down getting rid of it at the state level.

    • @[email protected]
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      159 hours ago

      State’s rights to force the northern states to return runaway slaves. Can’t forget that part.

      • EleventhHour
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        “How dare you disrespect our sovereignty by exercising your own! And during a Civil War that we started over this very issue, no less!”

        This country has been half dogshit-brained fuckbag since the first European “explorer” landed here. And while I’m sure, like any society, Native Americans had their share of colorful characters, we’ll hardly hear of them due to the whole cultural erasure which followed the landing of the aforementioned European “explorers”.

        “What’s so great about discovery? It’s a violent penetrative act that scars what it explores. What you call discovery, I call the rape of the natural world.”

        — Dr. Ian Malcom, Jurassic Park