zoux posted:

That and stuff for after It Finally Happens. Decades worth of emergency canned food, water and air filtration systems, gold, etc.

zoux posted:

Reminder that the Oprah military industrial complex sells just as bad and way more stuff to gullible white women.

zoux posted:

Reminder that the Oprah military industrial complex sells just as bad and way more stuff to gullible white women.

rkajdi posted:

That latter stuff I expected. The cock pills even make sense since the demo for infowars is pasty white losers, who undoubtedly are worried about being too small or a one pump chump with whatever idiot make the poor decision to sleep with them. But the seeds thing is just the dumbest thing ever. Considering most of these losers are sitting on a year's salary in metal cock replacements, couldn't they just go all warlord on people and steal the food someone else grows? They're planning for the U.S. to turn into Somalia but haven't even spent a second thinking about what that would entail.

The more I see it, the more it obvious to me that prepper culture is one of these fake consumerist cultures built around what you buy. Like gamers, or what hipsters and hippies ended up turning into.

Rhesus Pieces posted:

Vegetarian capsules! 100% vegan!

For all we know they're capsules filled with lawn clippings going for almost ninety dollars a bottle.

I know, a fool and his money, etc. but someone should really go to jail for this poo poo.

quote:

At GNC, for example, the agency found that five out of six samples from the company’s signature “Herbal Plus” brand of supplements “were either unrecognizable or a substance other than what they claimed to be.” In pills labeled ginkgo biloba, the agency found only rice, asparagus and spruce, an ornamental plant commonly used for Christmas decorations.

gradenko_2000 posted:

The idea behind this is based on historical hindsight: the industrial revolution would have changed up economics and manufacturing so much that slavery would no longer have been a feasible backbone for the Southern economy and they would have had to either adapt or collapse.

It's also largely BS, as the Southeners only ever had plans to expand slavery at the time.

McDowell posted:

Didn't the CSA have aspirations of conquering Mexico/South America and establishing a White Supremacist Empire?

zoux posted:

Is there any truth to the Lost Causer/States' Rights claims that the South was on the verge of abolishing slavery themselves? Seems to me like you wouldn't go to war over a thing you're about to get rid of anyway.

McDowell posted:

Didn't the CSA have aspirations of conquering Mexico/South America and establishing a White Supremacist Empire?

Unzip and Attack posted:

4.7 stars out of 5, with 179 reviews. loving unreal man.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

another problem with the continued existence of the CSA is that it was unpopular, like all of the slaves would have found very good reason to escape to the north asap but many white southerners rejected secession as well and the 1864 southern landscape was rotten with deserters, bandits, and military police militias all sniping at each other, so there would almost certainly be a large exodus of southern whites from the border states to the north if not the unsecession of chunks of states like tennessee triggering civil war 2

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On one occasion, in 1841, that happened—and it involved not only Lincoln but his fiancée Mary Todd. The two had collaborated on a series of scurrilous letters from a fictitious “Rebecca” that vilified James Shields, a rising candidate in the Democratic Party (he would later be elected a senator three times from three different states). The fake Rebecca, who claimed Shields was a former beau, mocked his Irish origin and declared him “a fool as well as a liar…. With him truth is out of the question, and as for getting a good bright passable lie out of him, you might as well try to strike fire from a cake of tallow.”

Shields stormed into the office of the Sangamo Journal, demanding that the editor, Simeon Francis, tell him who was behind the Rebecca letters. When Francis asked Lincoln what he should do, Lincoln, in order to shield his Mary, took sole responsibility (without admitting he wrote anything). Shields challenged him to a duel, and they actually met on the dueling ground—but Lincoln, as the one receiving the challenge, had the right to choice of weapons. When he called for broadswords, this gave him, with his long and strong right arm, a ludicrous advantage, and the fight was called off. Though Mary liked to recollect how her own beau had stood up for her, Lincoln cut off any later attempts to remember this episode—perhaps (though Holzer does not mention this) because Shields, vilified by “Rebecca,” became a Union officer when Lincoln was president, and was wounded at the Battle of Kernstown. There was a real duel after all.

Unzip and Attack posted:

Had a lecturer (Eric Foner)at my University a couple years back tell that same story about Lincoln and the duel, except that he said he chose wood axes. Either way it's still next level poo poo.

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

zoux posted:

Anchor Wanker posted:

Amazing

http://imgur.com/tOUSjGX

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

quote:

But fueled by voter fears about ISIS after the attacks in Paris — and a subsequent boost from the largest paper in one of the key early primary states — New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is focusing on terrorism.

At a standing-room only town hall inside the firehouse in tiny Loudon, N.H., the crowd took the Pledge of Allegiance facing a poster of firefighters raising the American flag at the World Trade Center site on Sept. 11, 2001. And it was fear of another such attack that hung heavy over Christie's 36th town hall meeting here.

"Our world war is happening right now, has been happening," said Christie as he opened the town hall. "You and I all in this room all know, all understand, that a couple of weeks ago this campaign changed dramatically."

Unzip and Attack posted:

Had a lecturer (Eric Foner)at my University a couple years back tell that same story about Lincoln and the duel, except that he said he chose wood axes. Either way it's still next level poo poo.

zoux posted:

So they just had swords sitting around in mid 19th century America?

Fried Chicken posted:

Here, have a really good article about struggling southerners trying to organize a Chinese factory in Alabama

Fried Chicken posted:

Do you not?


anyways, after that anecdote about Lincoln, here's one about Christie


Jesus, what has the GOP come to? You know, I don't like them, but I still want to see the party recover if for no other reason than eventually they will win again and I'd rather the country not burn to ashes as a result. Eisenhower wasn't that long ago guys.


Here, have a really good article about struggling southerners trying to organize a Chinese factory in Alabama

Raskolnikov38 posted:

Georgia's governor threatened to secede from the Confederacy several times during the war. Most hilarious were the ones from during Sherman's Georgia campaign.

"Please save us from this red haired Ohioan, oh and also we're gonna take our ball and go home"

Bryter posted:

Decades after that, even.

Popular Thug Drink posted:

well when there's an army rampaging through your countryside and the national forces are more or less letting him to it that's a great time to raise grievances

GalacticAcid posted:

Jacobin has a lovely rep on these forums but they published a fantastic interview with Foner in their Civil War + Reconstruction issue.

Fried Chicken posted:

Do you not?


anyways, after that anecdote about Lincoln, here's one about Christie


Jesus, what has the GOP come to? You know, I don't like them, but I still want to see the party recover if for no other reason than eventually they will win again and I'd rather the country not burn to ashes as a result. Eisenhower wasn't that long ago guys.


Here, have a really good article about struggling southerners trying to organize a Chinese factory in Alabama

zoux posted:

Is there any truth to the Lost Causer/States' Rights claims that the South was on the verge of abolishing slavery themselves? Seems to me like you wouldn't go to war over a thing you're about to get rid of anyway.

zoux posted:

Find your own!: http://store.infowars.com/

Toph Bei Fong posted:

I first read that as "help energize midichlorian function", which, I guess, it has just about as much a chance of actually doing...

Raskolnikov38 posted:

I always felt Joe Johnston got the short end of the stick but maybe that's just the effect of the disaster that was John Bell Hood.

gradenko_2000 posted:

The idea behind this is based on historical hindsight: the industrial revolution would have changed up economics and manufacturing so much that slavery would no longer have been a feasible backbone for the Southern economy and they would have had to either adapt or collapse.

It's also largely BS, as the Southeners only ever had plans to expand slavery at the time.