'Better Off Without 'Em: A Northern Manifesto for Southern Secession' | |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:37 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The Solid South's evangelical rigidity of thought not only confers upon the region an inordinate influence in presidential politics, it enables the South to assume a disproportionate control of Congress through the assumption of congressional committee chairmanships. The seniority system for chairmanships adopted by Congress in 1910 has allowed change-fearing southern voters—who tend more than others to return the same officials to Washington year in and out—to seize control of House and Senate leadership positions. Thus have the most reactionary and entrenched politicians in the country wrested control of the laws and policies of the entire nation. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:38 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The South is bad for the American economy in the same way that China and Mexico are bad for the American economy. By keeping corporate taxes low, schools underfunded, and workers' rights to organize negligible, it's southern politicians who make it so. By separating itself from this suppurating cancer in our midst, the rest of the country would at least be able to deal with the South as it would any other Third World entity, rather than as the in-house parasite that bleeds the country far more than it contributes to its collective health. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:40 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The auto industry in the United States isn't dead. It's thriving. But it's doing so with cut-rate workers in southern states whose leaders have adopted the business tactics of banana republic despots who take jobs from American workers by shamelessly exploiting their own. It wasn't just Japan and Korea and Mexican laborers that killed Detroit. Essentially operating as its own country with its own economic interests in mind, the "patriotic" South has done plenty to help wreck the Motor City. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:41 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Indeed, one could make the argument that in terms of economic practice the South is profoundly un-American for the way in which it betrays our own citizens by prostrating itself to foreign interests and fat-cat traitors who sell out America's dwindling middle class for the short-term gain of a pocketful of euros and yuan; and that despite a few misleading statistics and specious political claims, northern citizens might actually be better off without the ball and chain of the southern economy. By underscoring the three pillars of southern economic philosophy—abuse labor, fellate corporate interests (especially foreign ones), and fuck the environment—I intend to make that every argument. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:43 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | What the majority of southerners are, and always have been … is willing to allow the most strident, mouth-breathing "patriotic" firebrands among them to remain in control of their society's most powerful and influential positions. This is true whether they operate in the realms of religion, politics, business, education, or just basic day-to-day civic operations, like the hamlet nabobs in Laurens, South Carolina, who, knowing it's wrong, still grant a business license to a guy who sells Klan shit from a shop in front of their picturesque little courthouse.... |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:44 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Maybe the fanatics do represent a minority, say one in three southerners—that's a fair guess, in my estimation. That's still an extremely potent one-in-three that the rest of the South enables—or succumbs to—or aligns with—or votes for—year after year, decade after decade, century after century. Theirs are the voices that perpetuate the agenda because theirs are the voices that ring with the most sincerity, that are most bereft of apology, that in their bellicosity resonate as the most authentically "southern." If there's one thing about the South that hasn't ever changed it's the hypnotic influence of the angry crusader. |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:45 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | The South's economic disregard for public education is incongruous with the rest of the country's determination to reestablish American schools as a standard-bearer for the world. The southern "approach" to education is nearly as dismal now as it ever was. The rest of us can no longer afford to drag the South's truant ass kicking and screaming into the world of twenty-first century knowledge and discovery…. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25534649 United Kingdom 10/14/2012 10:50 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who's going to fight Jew York's wars when the South is another country? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25388275 We were dragged into a multi-trillion dollar debacle of a war with Iraq by Texass and the voters of the south. I believe G. W. Bush is a native of Connecticut. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25388275 United States 10/14/2012 10:52 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who's going to fight Jew York's wars when the South is another country? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25388275 We were dragged into a multi-trillion dollar debacle of a war with Iraq by Texass and the voters of the south. The Bush family didn't come from Texas, ya dummy. [link to genealogy.about.com] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:55 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who's going to fight Jew York's wars when the South is another country? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25388275 We were dragged into a multi-trillion dollar debacle of a war with Iraq by Texass and the voters of the south. The Bush family didn't come from Texas, ya dummy. [link to genealogy.about.com] Dubya lived there and still does even after selling off his fake brush-clearing ranch. |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25388275 United States 10/14/2012 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Who's going to fight Jew York's wars when the South is another country? Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25388275 We were dragged into a multi-trillion dollar debacle of a war with Iraq by Texass and the voters of the south. The Bush family didn't come from Texas, ya dummy. [link to genealogy.about.com] Dubya lived there and still does even after selling off his fake brush-clearing ranch. So if you moved to Alabama next week you'd be a white trash Dixie boy too? |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 10:58 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | This drawling idiot is a member of the Science, Space and Technology Committee in Congress, deciding science policy for the United States!! [link to www.youtube.com] |
Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 11:00 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25542232 We were dragged into a multi-trillion dollar debacle of a war with Iraq by Texass and the voters of the south. The Bush family didn't come from Texas, ya dummy. [link to genealogy.about.com] Dubya lived there and still does even after selling off his fake brush-clearing ranch. So if you moved to Alabama next week you'd be a white trash Dixie boy too? What is your fucking point?? |
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Anonymous Coward User ID: 25388275 United States 10/14/2012 11:03 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Dubya lived there and still does even after selling off his fake brush-clearing ranch. So if you moved to Alabama next week you'd be a white trash Dixie boy too? What is your fucking point?? My point is that the person you hate so much is probably yourself, and not all these other people you're trying to drag into your personal nightmare. |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 11:09 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | ... Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25542232 Dubya lived there and still does even after selling off his fake brush-clearing ranch. So if you moved to Alabama next week you'd be a white trash Dixie boy too? What is your fucking point?? My point is that the person you hate so much is probably yourself, and not all these other people you're trying to drag into your personal nightmare. You don't know a damn thing about me. It doesn't bother you that Paul Broun and Todd Akin sit on the Science Committee? That our govt and nation is dragged down by political swamp scum? You approve of it or you don't care? |
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Anonymous Coward (OP) User ID: 25542232 United States 10/14/2012 11:22 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sounds like a good idea. Wherever there are mergers there are always workers and hangers-on. Like England/Scotland, and of course the bloody EU! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25535552 We would be richer and have a much higher standard of living without the South. What would happen though, is that the South would depopulate as they fled north. It would be impossible to prevent that happening. But it would probably still be better than what we have now since they wouldn't have such outsized political representation. |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5073178 United States 10/14/2012 11:24 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Sounds like a good idea. Wherever there are mergers there are always workers and hangers-on. Like England/Scotland, and of course the bloody EU! Quoting: Anonymous Coward 25535552 We would be richer and have a much higher standard of living without the South. What would happen though, is that the South would depopulate as they fled north. It would be impossible to prevent that happening. But it would probably still be better than what we have now since they wouldn't have such outsized political representation. but the opposite is happening right now, people are leaving the north in droves. |
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KimmieAnnaJones User ID: 10039683 United States 10/14/2012 11:25 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | Oh thank God! That would be such a blessing!!! "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." - I AM Vote for people that have a track record for loving your Constitution or lose your country forever!!! Put down the damn touchy feely koolaid and WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!! :militia: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 25432830 Hong Kong 10/14/2012 11:27 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i wish the north would leave, nobody would stop them. they could go full communist and the south could go capitalist, its going to happen eventually anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5073178 Ummm...the Southern U.S is made up of taker states who all use a vastly disproportionate amount of tax payer dollars, you would be utterly fucked. Capitalism??!?! hahahahaha....you are all Socialists already, you have so many welfare cases in the Southern U.S along with all the farming and other subsidies that keep the pathetic Southern U.S economies afloat. |
KimmieAnnaJones User ID: 10039683 United States 10/14/2012 11:28 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | So we could send them damn ole yankies home then, right? They are really starting to piss me off moving down here and taxing the fuck out of us! I say send em packing, gtfo and never come back! "Holy, holy, holy is the Lord God Almighty, who was, and is, and is to come." - I AM Vote for people that have a track record for loving your Constitution or lose your country forever!!! Put down the damn touchy feely koolaid and WAKE THE FUCK UP!!!! :militia: |
Anonymous Coward User ID: 5073178 United States 10/14/2012 11:29 AM Report Abusive Post Report Copyright Violation | i wish the north would leave, nobody would stop them. they could go full communist and the south could go capitalist, its going to happen eventually anyway. Quoting: Anonymous Coward 5073178 Ummm...the Southern U.S is made up of taker states who all use a vastly disproportionate amount of tax payer dollars, you would be utterly fucked. Capitalism??!?! hahahahaha....you are all Socialists already, you have so many welfare cases in the Southern U.S along with all the farming and other subsidies that keep the pathetic Southern U.S economies afloat. well the only way to find out is to try, lets go for it. |