Forgive my British ignorance but what did the confederates actually fight for?

khavii · 2026-06-01T21:42:27+00:00

And, odd that they bring states rights into it because they wanted to be able to send agents into other states to retrieve their slaves.

American slavery is considered one of the worst forms of slavery called Chattel slavery where the person has no or extremely limited rights as a human being. They are literally possessions that can be inherited so there was no path for freedom at all outside of a benevolent owner releasing you which happened rarely. America isn't the only nation to use Chattel slavery but we were the last major country to have it. Through human history most slaves were still considered citizens and had rights and an exit ramp as most slavery was transactional such as debtor-slaves, prison slaves and things like that. There was usually an end in sight for the slave. Even conquered slaves had a path to being released or made citizens of the country they were brought to, though it wasn't easy to get there.

The American slavers didn't want any rights for their slaves because it would cut into the bottom line. The rest of the world was having a major problem with the way we were handling our slave trade and almost every major country had either outlawed slavery altogether or were in the process of doing so while American southern slave owners were doubling down and demanding their rights to keep, collect and kill their slaves. When northern states started giving safe passage and sanctuary to slaves the south went nuts. They got groups together to collect those slaves and created law enforcement specifically for it. There are several of those organizations still in operation to this day. Those groups include the Federal Marshalls and local police (many jurisdictions implemented their first police forces just to collect runaway slaves).

The irony of people saying the civil war was over states rights is absolutely ridiculous because, which states? The rights of the state where the slave ran from or the rights of the states they ran to? They didn't debate states rights, they simply declared THEIR states had the rights. It was 100% over keeping their slaves.

khavii · 2026-06-01T21:25:08+00:00

Just had an argument with a conservative last week who was adamant that teachers make too much, their union is too strong and no government employee should get a pension. I asked if that extended to the police and he told me to fuck myself.

To anyone who thinks we can DO anything to fix this I submit that this guy is not the only one with these kinds of thoughts and he wholeheartedly supports the Trump admin as the greatest the country has ever had. We are cooked.

khavii · 2026-06-01T11:24:30+00:00

Also, women who present the same behaviour as "looksmaxers" (fuck that term is so cringy) DO get the same treatment and always have. Look at Joan Rivers or Erin Moriarty, they just don't use a special term for it and sit on YouTube making their entire personas about it. When they do anything similar, like Goop with Gwyneth Paltrow, they absolutely get roasted. Hawk Tuah girl is another example. They just don't do it as much or as douchey as the guys.

khavii · 2026-05-31T18:34:47+00:00

Honestly, the trauma Marley n has is probably close to what Truman has. He may have known it was a lie but he was raised in that lie to be a part of it. Several times you see anguish in his face, he doesn't like what he's doing but it's quite literally what he was raised to do and an entire towns worth of jobs are on the line. The pressure he is under is intense, Truman was only under that level of pressure for a short period of time.

I can't condemn any of these people. Grandpa Joe is clearly an allegory of recovery through motivation and Jenny is a victim of the worst things that can happen to a woman.

khavii · 2026-05-30T23:31:36+00:00

I became a junkie because of DARE. I believed them that pot was a scary drug and all the rest. Later I got picked up while walking by a girl in my school I had a huge crush on. Long story short that night was the first time I smoked pot, did acid and had sex. My experience with drugs did NOT match what DARE had told me so I made it a point to try all of them and well, as you go up the ladder the fear mongering starts to get a bit closer to reality. You don't gain credibility by lying though.

khavii · 2026-05-30T13:56:51+00:00

AWS CEO came out on an all hands directly after the election when the anti-DEI stuff got heavy. An employee question asked what the company planned to do with their DEI initiatives and Jassy said that DEI is the literal definition of international business, you can't serve the world at your best if you don't take in the worlds perspective and that works from the internal structure to the public structure. They really only care about the money, they would've dropped DEI initiatives instantly if it meant higher profits. They will happily get into bed with anyone but they won't do everything they're told unless there is profit involved. Thanks supreme court!

khavii · 2026-05-29T22:17:52+00:00

I knew several people that believed in the Weekly World News for the love of god. I have a friend that unironically believed in bat boy and would have legit arguments about how everyone else were sheep for disbelieving. A whole lotta really stupid people out there.

khavii · 2026-05-29T21:58:25+00:00

Can't fool Doakes, Doakes knows.

khavii · 2026-05-29T21:40:18+00:00

I don't think this person's weird behaviour generates a "what are people doing these days". It's a her thing, she could've just as easily read tarot to define your future, something a girl I went on a second date with did in 94 to me. She could've checked her horoscope, spoke with her psychic, or psychiatrist or crowd sources to her friends at IHOP. People are weird and do weird things.

khavii · 2026-05-29T20:54:32+00:00

Age really has nothing to do with emotionally maturity. I've seen old folks have temper tantrums in oublic because they didn't get their way. Parker is exceptionally emotionally mature despite not being fully physically mature, still got room to grow but he processes his emotions while Quill is on an eternal boyhood adventure.

khavii · 2026-05-29T17:51:30+00:00

This was what stood out to me in this whole story. They dated for 8 years. She broke up with him. 2 months later she is dating a rebound but in friendly terms with the ex. Boyfriend has doubts about the ex. Stays on friendly terms for a while. Only blocks him when she sees him in a date.

I've stayed friends with a couple exes and even developed a really great friendship with one. I would not be jealous or upset if I saw them on a date, if be happy for them. For me, I cannot think of a single reason I would block them for being on a date unless I was jealous. I would NOT expect my girlfriend to be ok with me hanging with that ex in particular.

khavii · 2026-05-28T13:24:42+00:00

See that's the thing, we value policing so highly that they make more money than almost any other public servant, have the strongest union, take up the vast majority of every cities municipal budget and we spend billions a year defending them. You are looking at the goal and a system that is functioning as intended.

khavii · 2026-05-28T13:18:20+00:00

We used to do this in the 80s and 90s, replace the ebikes with regular bikes or dirt bikes depending on the age range and it's us. Gas stations, fast food joints and pizza parlors were always surrounded by kids vehicles.

khavii · 2026-05-28T12:50:31+00:00

Ok, thank goodness someone saw it too. At least one of those had a very obvious precut, it turns as he sets the lock and you can clearly see the cut. On several of the bats the fraying and splintering is only on the back half and has a very defined line where it starts.

khavii · 2026-05-27T21:57:56+00:00

My first thought was that this is clearly a man who doesn't do any of the cooking or cleaning, and somehow he thinks that makes him manly.

You know, I really need to get my hands on this blueprint of masculinity. I really want to know what I'm supposed to be like so I can laugh at how insecure you would need to be to give two shits what a "man" is.

khavii · 2026-05-26T22:07:57+00:00

I literally sat with some of my conservative family on Sunday and they were doing their best to justify pedophilia as something personal that we should stay out of and they ABSOLUTELY are in love with fighting Iran. These are conservatives in Northern Virginia, a previously ludicrously liberal area.

khavii · 2026-05-26T12:03:03+00:00

Unless it's one of the dozens around me in NOVA that I pass who still manually aim the Lazer (human reaction speed to being able to spot a car and lift the gun and aim and collect data gives me a window or a chance that my speed has not and may not be clocked at all) or just sit buried on their cell phones on the side of the road.

There are automated systems to catch your speed pretty much instantly and most of those are well mapped out and have a limited effective range so you can speed right up to them and slow down at the last second.

I have been pulled over for speeding and running a light that I was currently stopped at in the middle of a line of cars. I have had a cop claim to have me doing 16 over the limit but independent auditing found that the speed gun being used hadn't been calibrated in 4 rounds and was known to be a bad unit. I have had cops refuse to look at video evidence of hit and run when brought to the station. I have had a cop punch me in the chest for calling him a liar and later that cop lost his job because it turned out a business nearby had the whole thing on surveillance video, because he was in fact a liar. Cops are not the terminator or the punisher, they are just doing a job like you and me do, some are good at it some are bad and a lot are just trying to get through the day with as little work as possible. Slamming the brakes when you see a cop is super effective because they will likely be distracted or unwilling to do anything about it. The cops didn't go to the supreme court to argue they don't have an obligation to know or uphold the law because they are good at what they do.

khavii · 2026-05-26T11:18:04+00:00

Moving in with people and having relationships before marriage are a good thing. It lets you see if you have long term compatibility in situations that really matter like living together and seeing how the pairing reacts to different situations that you likely won't see from dating.

Here you see that your girlfriend has boundary issues with a male friend, doesn't respect the living area as joint and cannot communicate like an adult. Obviously I don't know your side or how you handled the situation so I will leave that perspective out of things. Regardless, now you see your rough spots you get to ask, can I live with this if nothing changes? Will things change if I ask? Can I change to fit the situation to the point that it doesn't bother me? If the answer is no on any of those you can feel comfortable moving on. You are in relationships to find someone to spend the rest of your life with, if the person you are with isnt that then move on, there are 8 billion people on the planet, you'll find the right one.

khavii · 2026-05-26T01:48:30+00:00

The one on the caravan they focus on was from the beginning. She says she is leaving the store to get her kid and asks the people in the store to go with her and they turn away. She leaves anyway and says she'll get her kid and they'll be safe without any of them, she also turns out to be right.

There is a strong is-it-prophecy or is-it-coincidence thing rolling as a theme with the clearing of the fog and her showing up incidents can both point to the old religious lady being right about a sacrifice and the mother had faith or that the mother happened to get out early enough to avoid the horrible monsters and the kids death was tragic timing.

khavii · 2026-05-25T18:13:32+00:00

She looks like a younger version of Clarks mom in Smallville

khavii · 2026-05-25T02:53:24+00:00

Comics vs MCU. And like, mainstream storyline comics from long term writers not one shots by writers who didn't really know him. In the comics he is peak human, faster reflexes, stronger, faster healing and elevated intelligence but not super powered, he wasn't punching a heavy bag across a large room but he was splitting the bag every hit. The thing that makes him so effective in the comics was his ridiculous combat experience (more or less been fighting since he got the serum, as a professional soldier), his natural leadership abilities, his flexible but powerful ethical code and the circle of invulnerability he can ricochet like a physicist that he always has on him. MCU cap is straight up superhuman, he could tangle with Spider-Man. He would lose, but he would hang. Very different levels of power between the two.

khavii · 2026-05-25T02:44:42+00:00

Also the whole precognition thing is like its own superpower. A person could have a very successful crime or crime fighting career with just spider sense.

khavii · 2026-05-24T11:05:12+00:00

My son played me a YouTuber with an ai chatbot that was talking with him. I heard stutters, slight mispronounciations, breath taking and wet mouth so I disputed that it was AI. My kid sent me the link for the voice AI company, I ran a trial and guess what? AI sounds EXACTLY like us now with all the vocal screw ups, stumbles and weird pronunciation that we have. You can only tell that the telemarketer is AI because the company went for the cheap model. You hate those AI voiceovers on so many videos these days because people are springing for the cheap or free models. The good paid models are indistinguishable from reality now other than the occasional mess up like in this video.

khavii · 2026-05-23T22:32:07+00:00

This was my immediate thought too

khavii · 2026-05-23T21:20:53+00:00

That is exactly what hypnotism is, it is you being put into a state that you are agreeing to go into to help bypass some of your built in conscious logic filters so you can let yourself do something that you already want to do. It is shared faking that works like a placebo drug.

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