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Davfff: Oct 27, 2008

Can we all just agree that slavery was bad and move on? I think we all agree that point (I hope we do) and that whatever negligible benefits some slaves may or may not have had, and for whatever reason, really doesn't change that fact?

# ? Apr 6, 2016 00:13

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# ? May 14, 2024 02:16

moist turtleneck: Jul 17, 2003; Represent.; Dinosaur Gum

Slavery built the pyramids and those are pretty cool since they supplied grain for all the Christians in that area

# ? Apr 6, 2016 00:18

ekuNNN: Nov 27, 2004; by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

# ? Apr 6, 2016 00:18

Control Volume: Dec 31, 2008

Slavery was only obsoleted by automation and wage labor and abolition was only allowed to gain traction because slaves weren't economically efficient in the north. :can:

# ? Apr 6, 2016 00:30

And More: Jun 19, 2013; How far, Doctor?
How long have you lived?

Control Volume posted:

Slavery was only obsoleted by automation and wage labor and abolition was only allowed to gain traction because slaves weren't economically efficient in the north.

Actually, this very helpful contributor to Southern Agriculturalist from 1833 might have disagreed:

quote:

If I employ a labourer to perform a certain quantum of work per day,
and I agree to pay him a certain amount for the performance of said
work, when he has accomplished it, I of course, have no further claim on
him for his time or services. But how different it is with a slave!

Since we're apparently actually having this discussion, lets also look at this nice quote from former slave William Byrd taken from
Smith, Mark M. 1996. Time, Slavery and Plantation Capitalism in the Ante-Bellum American South. In: Past & Present, No. 150. 142-168 (p. 163):

quote:

Master, he had great iron piece hanging just out side his door and he hit
that every morning at 3:30. The negroes they come tumbling out of their
beds.
If they didn't master he come round in about thirty minutes with
that cat-o-nine tails and begins to let negro have that and when he got
through they knew what that bell was the next morning.

And More has a new favorite as of 00:48 on Apr 6, 2016

# ? Apr 6, 2016 00:42

KoRMaK: Jul 31, 2012

New York talk from a couple pages back reminded me of tool academy. Remember tool academy?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpGWjN0Tf2k&t=9s

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:00

cash crab: Apr 5, 2015; all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology

Davfff posted:

Can we all just agree that slavery was bad and move on?

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:08

Control Volume: Dec 31, 2008

*in the voice of an alabaman educator* umm I think you mean states rights.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:17

Woodchip: Mar 28, 2010

Roro posted:

Never has a truer sentence been attached to a more worthy person. Now shut the gently caress up about how much you love how slavery used to be, you fuckhead.

For content, we have a brand new failarmy hot off the press!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJqXV_MW4aY

Happy Belated April Fool's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2dGy9vHxc

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:26

cash crab: Apr 5, 2015; all the time i am eating from the trashcan. the name of this trashcan is ideology

Woodchip posted:

Happy Belated April Fool's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2dGy9vHxc

Holy poo poo, this is satisfying

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:29

Say Nothing: Mar 5, 2013; by FactsAreUseless

# ? Apr 6, 2016 01:37

Rough Lobster: May 27, 2009; Don't be such a squid, bro

Solice Kirsk posted:

Anyone opening champagne outside and not sabering it is an rear end in a top hat who deserves anything that happens to them.

Can you explain why this is? Specifically the not sabering part.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 03:23

Weatherman: Jul 30, 2003; WARBLEKLONK

Rough Lobster posted:

Can you explain why this is? Specifically the not sabering part.

He likes sabering

# ? Apr 6, 2016 04:04

Captain Lavender: Oct 21, 2010; verb the adjective noun

Woodchip posted:

Happy Belated April Fool's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2dGy9vHxc

Fail Army's got this youtube thing figured out.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 04:14

LITERALLY A BIRD: Sep 27, 2008; I knew you were trouble
when you flew in

No more slavery talk please.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 04:22

tonberrykng: May 1, 2009

Woodchip posted:

Happy Belated April Fool's

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv2dGy9vHxc

3:44 - One of these things is not like the others...

# ? Apr 6, 2016 04:29

Knormal: Nov 11, 2001

LITERALLY A BIRD posted:

Oh man, he just got squashed.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 05:12

Chichevache: Feb 17, 2010; One of the funniest posters in GIP.

Just not intentionally.

Knormal posted:

Oh man, he just got squashed.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 05:15

Kay Kessler: May 9, 2013

Knormal posted:

Oh man, he just got squashed.

He's lucky he didn't get gourd.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 05:46

nerdz: Oct 12, 2004; Complex, statistically improbable things are by their nature more difficult to explain than simple, statistically probable things.; Grimey Drawer

Solice Kirsk posted:

Anyone opening champagne outside and not sabering it is an rear end in a top hat who deserves anything that happens to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYPVAES4kuw&t=52s

# ? Apr 6, 2016 05:48

Rorac: Aug 19, 2011

Kay Kessler posted:

He's lucky he didn't get gourd.

I hope he's alright, I'd hate to see a kid become a vegetable.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 06:16

Megillah Gorilla: Sep 22, 2003; If only all of life's problems could be solved by smoking a professor of ancient evil texts.; Bread Liar

Rough Lobster posted:

Can you explain why this is? Specifically the not sabering part.

Maybe he just has a fetish for waving a sword around like a wanker before drinking overpriced crap with possible tiny glass fragments floating in it.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 06:26

Helios Grime: Jan 27, 2012; Where we are going we won't need shirts; Pillbug

Newly appointed head of FIFA Gianni (Babyhead) Infantino just got linked to some dubious Panama Papers about selling TV rights below value.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 06:36

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Does he own a bald cat, by any chance

# ? Apr 6, 2016 06:48

Regalingualius: Jan 7, 2012; We gazed into the eyes of madness... And all we found was horny.

Is there a single person in the upper management of FIFA that isn't hilariously corrupt in some fashion?

# ? Apr 6, 2016 07:02

Helios Grime: Jan 27, 2012; Where we are going we won't need shirts; Pillbug

Regalingualius posted:

Is there a single person in ~~the upper management of~~ FIFA that isn't hilariously corrupt in some fashion?

ftfy

# ? Apr 6, 2016 07:05

Jippa: Feb 13, 2009

10 Beers posted:

So, some rapper named Azealia Banks doesn't understand how fake news sites work.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywood/2016/04/04/rapper-azealia-banks-calls-sarah-palin-gang-raped-black-men/

Jesus.

Twitter seems too offer this unique window into some peoples souls as it bypasses all the filters. That she has that just sitting there in her brain says a lot.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 07:30

Humphreys: Jan 26, 2013; We conceived a way to use my mother as a porn mule

Helios Grime posted:

Newly appointed head of FIFA Gianni (Babyhead) Infantino just got linked to some dubious Panama Papers about selling TV rights below value.

A few pages back I said that nothing would eventuate from the the Panama Papers. Oh so wrong I was.

The Iceland PM resigning over it for one.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 08:44

Stupid_Sexy_Flander: Mar 14, 2007; Is a man not entitled to the haw of his maw?; Grimey Drawer

Humphreys posted:

A few pages back I said that nothing would eventuate from the the Panama Papers. Oh so wrong I was.

The Iceland PM resigning after 8% of his country's population showed up to protest, over it for one.

FTFY by adding a fact I think helps make it all the better :allears:

# ? Apr 6, 2016 16:48

Not Operator: Jan 1, 2009; Not A doctor, THE Doctor!

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

FTFY by adding a fact I think helps make it all the better

What, they don't kettle in Iceland?

# ? Apr 6, 2016 16:57

Rush Limbo: Sep 5, 2005; its with a full house

Stupid_Sexy_Flander posted:

FTFY by adding a fact I think helps make it all the better

Those 20 people had to be bussed in from all over the country.

# ? Apr 6, 2016 17:00

Inspector Gesicht: Oct 26, 2012; 500 Zeus a body.

I hate to take stock of a person's appearance, but that Iceland PM looked like a skeleton who gained weight. I hope the PP scandal brings up dirt here in Ireland.

Inspector Gesicht has a new favorite as of 17:20 on Apr 6, 2016

# ? Apr 6, 2016 17:17

dee eight: Dec 18, 2002; The Spirit
of Maynard

Bloody Hedgehog posted:

So Many Skydivers Seen Out Airplane Windows

What's that annoying whistling sound??

# ? Apr 6, 2016 17:26

Solice Kirsk: Jun 1, 2004; .

Inspector Gesicht posted:

I hate to take stock of a person's appearance, but that Iceland PM looked like a skeleton who gained weight. I hope the PP scandal brings up dirt here in Ireland.

He looks like a virgin that was starved to death.

Thank you Silicone Valley

# ? Apr 6, 2016 18:21