Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "The Cotton Gin - Seeds of a Lie - US History - Extra History" video.

As opposed to Progressivism which can be construed as about deconstructing everything until nothing decent is left? Making biased statement doesn't make them true, thankfully; but I wouldn't expect bigots to understand that.
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@TheVoiceOfReason93 Woops, sorry, thought this was referring to something else. That statement applies to the world at large with their differing governments, cultures, ethnicities, etc. The Civil War was just in almost every way imaginable for the Union.
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@sabotabby3372 There literally is no such thing as an economic system that doesn't put profits over human lives; because human life has and always will be cheap due to the sheer abundance of humans and the scarcity of resources.
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There is no such thing as anything in life that doesn't have a negative consequence. There is no such thing as anything in life that doesn't have a positive consequence. Worrying about that doesn't change anything, ultimately.
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@Aditya Chavarkar Yeah, we used to tax them more because there was nowhere for them to fucking go, genius. The world was a smoking crater after WW2. Now? There's millions of places for them to run off to.
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@navilluscire2567 Okay then, absolute poverty then. Which has fallen to its lowest level in all of human history and continues to decrease. FFS people, stop being so proudly ignorant. The information is literally a few types away.
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@navilluscire2567 You can't, really; which is why such studies only go so far back in time. Are you implying there might have been a time when 99% of humanity wasn't living under extremely dire living conditions? Because that sounds very...naive to be blunt.
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@TheVoiceOfReason93 The only way to "do something about that" is by using force with lots and lots of imperialism. And if that's the option, then you're looking at massive opposition.
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@8is A "fair" system which just so happens to have the worst record of creating the worst oligarchies in human history with absolute power and human rights abuses. People like that get hung and guillotined, at best.
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@DieNibelungenliad That's like saying the BLM flag is most often used by the same people who wave the hammer and sickle, which was considered an enemy of the US and an evil imperialist power in its day. Guilt by association is a pretty shitty way to judge any ideology or group.
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