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Apple Pulls All Civil War Games From The App Store

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We have been following the Confederate flag scandal with bemused detachment, painfully aware for what it is: i) a welcome distraction from the real and very profound problems this country faces and ii) the latest escalation in what has been a relentless attempt to polarize the nation over the past several years, only instead of political ideology, gender, sexual preference, ethnic background, and most certainly wealth, this time the emphasis is on geographic origin and an implied relapse to the days of latent the pre-civil war "racism."

And yet while most such scandals fizzle quickly after the have heat their peak only to be replaced with the next day's watercooler talk as the following projection by Google trends predicts...

... this particular snafu is showing a particular determination to stay at the front pages. What is more surprising, is the apparent willingness of countless third parties, from the media, to retailers, to pundits, to keep this topic front and center in the public's consciousness.

To an extent all of that was expected. However, even we were stunned when we learned moments ago that none other than that ultimate "arbiter" on all things moral and ethical, Apple itself, entered the fray with a decision to remove all Civil War games from its App Store!

According to MacRumors, "Apple has removed seemingly all Civil War games from the App Store for displaying the Confederate Flag in "offensive and mean-spirited ways," our sister website TouchArcade has learned. Apple has sent a removal letter to affected developers to inform them that their app does not comply with Section 19.1 of the App Store Review Guidelines."

"19.1 Apps containing references or commentary about a religious, cultural or ethnic group that are defamatory, offensive, mean-spirited or likely to expose the targeted group to harm or violence will be rejected."

MacRumors further adds that it did do a spot check of the App Store and can confirm that Apple has removed dozens of Civil War games depicting the Confederate Flag. Most educational or generic Civil War apps remain available on the App Store.

A sampling of the Civil War games removed from the App Store:

Which begs the question: is the Confederate Flag scandal reaching beyond the ethical implications of last week's Charleston shooting and is it actively become an attempt to rewrite a "shameful" period of US history?

What's next: Amazon "censors" chapters on the US Civil War from history textbooks?

And just why are tech companies getting involved in what is, at its core, a political issue and by implication, censoring free expression and limiting the revenues of those hard working programmers who created the above listed games?

Finally, where does such selective "pre-screening" of what is deemed appropriate for public consumption end and who makes that determination? Because at last check every single nation that imposed such a "filter" to its own history no longer exists.

And in light of this dangerous revisionism, it makes us wonder if the correct term no longer "politically correct" but "political correction"?

h/t TheUberGuy

 

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Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:40 | 6233981 SethDealer
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need more welfare programs to help blacks

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:41 | 6233991 Waylon Bits
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I've noticed the MSM is also deliberately trying to blur the lines between white, semite and latino.  They want a race war between these groups and blacks it seems.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:54 | 6234059 casey13
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I am beyond caring and just watch with bemusement now as they try to out stupid each other.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:54 | 6234064 A L I E N
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h

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:58 | 6234087 XitSam
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The flag whose name cannot be mentioned.  Sort of like Prince in his Symbolina years.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:02 | 6234110 Waylon Bits
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...when the MSM wanted to stir the pot again with "Trayvon Martin" they invented a new race, the "white latino"!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:13 | 6234170 duo
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Under TPP, a foreign game maker could sue for lost profits.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:38 | 6234272 0b1knob
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It's a test.

Designed to provoke,

An emotional response.

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Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:53 | 6234344 Anusocracy
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I wonder how Confederate flags would sell in China and Russia.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:09 | 6234418 sushi
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About time we purged the history books of all references to "NAZIS" and "SWASTIKAS," "POGRAMS" "LEBENSRAUM" "DER FURHER PRINZIP" and all other similarly offensive and derogatory terms.

And all those Sienfeld re-runs should have "SOUP-NAZI" bleeped out.

We didn't fight WWII to be haunted by offensive language.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:21 | 6234463 0b1knob
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There actually was a Seinfeld episode about the gang being assaulted by Hispanics during a Puerto Rican day demonstration.

It was banned in reruns for years

http://www.nytimes.com/1998/05/09/nyregion/nbc-apologizes-for-seinfeld-e...

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:48 | 6234571 Four chan
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every suggestion of black criminality being the only problem, or now the south being within its constitutional rights to defend against federal aggression must be suppressed. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:38 | 6234754 strannick
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The word civil should be banned for being offensive.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:47 | 6234783 Seek_Truth
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Indeed.

What's so civil about war?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYoIgKxOK4A

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:39 | 6234755 strannick
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The word civil should be banned for being offensive.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:53 | 6234348 PartysOver
Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:59 | 6234374 tarsubil
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We call it Voight-Kampff.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 18:30 | 6235259 Cui Bono
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What's a tortoise?

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 09:48 | 6237295 gladius17
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Well met, sir

Mighty fine flag there.

Fuck the Feds

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:49 | 6234325 Squid Viscous
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meanwhile, pre-orders for "Heiney Hole 2016: Tim Cook's Revenge" are exceeding all expectations!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:05 | 6234079 Waylon Bits
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....and the MSM also seems to be wanting to rewrite the history of WW2 as well.  Disclaimer, I'm no fan of the nazis but Hitler was not fighting for people "with blond hair and blue eyes" as they brainlessly repeat.  In fact, if you go through the actual documents and photos you will see the average man fighting for the Axis powers was quite short, 5'4" - 5'10", and often had darker hair and features.  Just more liEberal BS and propaganda!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:08 | 6234137 DetectiveStern
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History is written by the victors. So it was so it will ever be.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:18 | 6234160 Lets_Eat_Ben
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It's obviously about state's rights and gun control.

 

Take the flag down - ban conferderate merch - who gives a shit

 

It's time for TX to sucessede. They already repatriated their gold - sever the gangrenous limb already. As a bonus, a new flag that represents decentralization of power (state's rights) can be born when the feds attack the sucession terrorists.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:23 | 6234215 cowdiddly
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I can hear the tour guides at all the historic battlefieds now.

"We had an unknown enemy who had no flag but put up a hell of a fight but we do not know who they were".

Down the Memory Hole.

And, all you grey team reenactors will need a background check and register with the front office. LOL

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:25 | 6234231 Waylon Bits
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... and no high-capacity Enfield P53's.  Needs an orange muzzle cap too.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:34 | 6234262 Bobbo
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But in such a context, the word "fight" will also be prohibited.  Don't want the slaves to get the wrong idea, now, do we?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:45 | 6234307 max2205
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They are  running the apps store like an HOA runs a condo.....

No flags on condos as well 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:13 | 6234434 OldTrooper
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Has the gold actually been delivered in Texas?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:45 | 6234560 swmnguy
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No, it hasn't.  It's a complete nonsense story, too.  The gold doesn't belong to "Texas."  It belongs to the University of Texas endowment fund.  The University of Texas Investment Management Co., which manages the endowment fund, leases space in New York City to warehouse the gold.  The Texas Governor signed a bill, passed through the Texas House and Senate, authorizing funds to begin the process of designing and building a depository vault.  

If completed, and if the proposed vault doesn't plan to charge more than the University of Texas Management Co. is currently paying to the landlords of the vault in NYC, then maybe they would be willing to move the gold to Texas' (as of now, hypothetical) vault facility.

There's a bunch of silly language in the back parts of the approved bill that don't mean much but provoked hard-ons among people who like to hyperventilate, don't read so well, and don't know how government or money work.  Or, apparently, what it takes to store $650,000,000 worth of gold.  Of course, the Governor, who might be the silliest Governor Texas has ever had (Yes, I did think through what that statement means), said some equally silly things, like overstating the value of the gold by about 35%, and spouting some nonsense betraying his lack of understanding of money, among other things.

It's just a bunch of showboating for ignorant people.  And no, the gold hasn't moved.  It's still in the rental warehouse in New York City, per the wishes of the rightful owners of said gold.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:36 | 6234250 Bobbo
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The issue here is not the flag per se

It is the "suggestion" of civil war and any "hint" of its legitimacy.

Note, if you will, the amazingly coordinated national action against civil war symbols.  Now, against civil war games.  Next, against civil war TV series and Civil war library books.  Civil war?  You are being told to forget about it--and we know arrest can be very bad for your health.

This is not an accident.  It is not some Political Correctness.  It is about Fear and Control, except in this case the fear has broken out among the owners and their hired sock puppets and brutality experts.  Therefore: mind control.

YOU ARE HEREBY INSTRUCTED TO FORGET ABOUT CIVIL WAR PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE !
(or else!)

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:49 | 6234311 Anusocracy
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You are absolutely correct.

The War of Southern Secession was anti-ingroup morality and therefore elicits feelings of moral high dudgeon. It offends the control freaks.

Time for apartheid based on political philosophies.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:29 | 6234487 Meat Hammer
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Because the truth is out there, they know it and they don't want you to know it.  But, just like when you tell a kid not to look in the upstairs closet, they look in the upstairs closet.  People might be sssssssllllllllllloooooooowwwwwwwllllllllyyyyyy waking up to the fact that everything the government says is a lie and are doing their own research.  Maybe a few more people realize that the North didn't attack the South over slavery and they go tell a few peopl..........SQUIRREL!!!!

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 09:55 | 6237317 gladius17
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The last part of your comment really hits home with me. Reminds me of sitting over at the neighbor's house trying to have a serious discussion about pressing issues. How the fuck is one supposed to seriously think about anything, when the dude can't even pay attention for 5 seconds straight without being distracted by something? Totally clueless guy, absorbed in the TV and video games and other shit, has a certain amount of skepticism about "conspiracy theories" but believes in aliens though. Eyes glaze over pretty quickly when you get into the deep stuff. At least he's loyal, and receptive to new ideas, for the fleeting moments when you can focus his attention. When his ass is starving I'm guessing he will be a lot more focused then.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:38 | 6234523 taoJones
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Interesting notion...

So just in case the future sheeple ever wake up long enough to see the mess they're in, and try to think about how this very siuation was handled in the past, they won't be able to remember the Civil War, since it has been eradicated from the landscape.

Not being a student of American history, per se, I may be a little offside on this one, but isn't the war to best remember and emulate the Revolutionary War?  April 19, 1775... Concord and Lexington...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:37 | 6234748 DetectiveStern
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Jade Helm having endless troops running around the South just after the Confederacy is hammered in MSM. Coincidence? No chance

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:43 | 6234767 Mariposa de Oro
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but if they erase the Civil War history, how can they use the racism stick to beat us with?  It won't have any power because noone will know what it is supposed to mean.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:47 | 6234314 Dig Deeper1
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If the collective consciousness is this effed up after 100-200 years imagine how distorted something like the bible must be.  Sooner or later all history becomes fiction.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:50 | 6234331 DutchBoy2015
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The Buybull is a big hoax book written by Jews making themselves the ''chosen''

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:18 | 6234687 taoJones
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That assumes the Bible was merely conceived & written by men.  If that was the case, then yes, the rules of "broken telephone" apply.  But if that's not the case, if the Bible is indeed "God breathed", then no, the aforementioned rules do not apply, and in spite of attempts to dilute it via various dubious translations, the Message contained therein nevertheless stands the test of time: The Son of God came into this world to reconcile man to Himself. 

As for Israel, the Chosen are the spiritual Israel NOT the country nor the the jewish religion.  The New Testament makes that clear, as well as portions of the Old Testament, like the prophecies in Isaiah, for example.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 16:08 | 6234832 Seek_Truth
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Amen, bro!

There's good reason for faith in the Bible and its teachings.

The 66 books of the Bible were written:
 On three continents.
In three languages.
By about 40 different people (kings, shepherds, prophets, an army general, fishermen, priests, physician, etc).
Over a period of about 1,500 years.
On the most controversial subjects.
By people who, in most cases, had never met.
By authors whose education and background varied greatly.

Yet it tells a completely cohesive story, all based on the same theme, of mankind’s fall, and the Love God showed by sending His son as a sacrifice to buy the souls of all men wishing to be redeemed.

And what is required to be redeemed?

“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.” – John 3:16

Only a book breathed by God could meet the above criteria, and there is no other book like it.

It is The Word of God.

Fulfilled Prophecy:

It is not only completely coherent, it prophesied ~600 years in advance every thing that Christ would accomplish, in Isaiah 53: https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Isaiah+53

There are hundreds of other prophecies that He fulfilled, as well: http://www.accordingtothescriptures.org/prophecy/353prophecies.html

Not to mention all the other prophecies that foretold in advance what would occur in what was then the future, take Daniels prophecy of Alexander the Great: https://www.christiancourier.com/articles/869-amazing-prophecy-in-the-bo...

It also accurately foretold many events hundreds or even thousands of years beforehand, the times we are living in, for example- yes- the end times, all going as foretold.

Proof that the integrity of the scriptures has been preserved:

It is a well researched and attested to fact that the Bible has been copied accurately and faithfully. On the integrity of the New Testament:

“As with all the previously published New Testament papyri (127 of them, published in the last 116 years), not a single new reading has commended itself as authentic. Instead, the papyri function to confirm what New Testament scholars have already thought was the original wording or, in some cases, to confirm an alternate reading—but one that is already found in the manuscripts” - http://www.dts.edu/read/wallace-new-testament-manscript-first-century/

And all are in agreement with one another. The standard practice is to ensure that modern translations adhere to these earliest copies of the papyri. We therefore know that they are faithful replications of what occurred in the first century.

http://www.bible.ca/ef/topical-the-earliest-new-testament-manuscripts.htm

https://carm.org/manuscript-evidence

The Old Testament is just as well preserved as the New Testament.

Another reason why the Bible can be beleved- its absolute CANDOR:

It does not attempt to paint a rosy picture of most men- in fact, only a mere handful of the Kings of Israel and Judah were spoken of as "good," and even they had their foibles commited to writing. Jesus' own Apostles had huge faults- and they are all attested to in writing.

Willingly choosing to ignore these facts won't result in a good outcome- to put it very mildly.

The time is drawing near- IF you haven't already done so- accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and personal savior.

 

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 16:58 | 6235006 MasterControl
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Not even a close comparison seeing that instant media wasn't around.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:09 | 6234144 Bloppy
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Fox host (probably sucking up to the Murdoch sons) attacks Rush Limbaugh over flag ban issue:

http://tinyurl.com/od9xlah


Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:28 | 6234223 Praetorian Guard
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Yep, civil war had nothing with slavery. Look up the Corwin Amendment!!! Come join us for free at   www.gunsgrubandgold.com   Everyone is welcome!   Survival links, financials, much more!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:38 | 6234281 Billy the Poet
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Lincoln put his support behind the Corwin Amendment in his First Inaugural Address. It would have permitted slavery in the South forever and ever and ever.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:46 | 6234563 zvzzt
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agreed, but shouldn't they then start mandatory rebel flag waving before school starts? that should do the trick (me thinks...)

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:42 | 6233997 goldhedge
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All those guns!.  You could start another Civil War.

pu$$ies.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6234007 spastic_colon
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ya the new civil war flag will have a picture of dear leader on it once he gets what he really wants

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:49 | 6234037 Winston Churchill
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Does seem to be plan B if they can't goad Russia or China into a pretext for WWIII.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:57 | 6234082 El Vaquero
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I fully expect further violent clashes where at least one side is racially motivated, but I don't see an all out race war.  That would be over almost as soon as it started. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:03 | 6234113 Winston Churchill
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The secessionists down in Florida are going apeshit Vaq.

I'm on their mailing list. Some good old boy will do something to really set this off.

You watch.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:13 | 6234174 El Vaquero
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It's a numbers thing.  Who has both more guns and more people?  Blacks or whites?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:34 | 6234259 ThirdWorldDude
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Now, ask that same question 51 times and use a map of N. America to color your results...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:34 | 6234265 Winston Churchill
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It will devolve into makers vs. takers.That crosses racial lines pretty quickly.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:40 | 6234289 El Vaquero
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Now that I can see. And I expect that this sort of conflict would look very different across various geographical regions of the US.  (And the rest of the world too.) 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:32 | 6234252 PartysOver
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I am not sure which fringe group will set off the chain of events.  But some group will.  And I think it will spread like wild fire in CA.  Perhaps we should remember that the Arab Spring was set in motion with one guy settiing himself on fire.   From there it became out of control and took on a life of its own.  It will not take much.  And if/when it goes look out.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6234001 MarkAntony
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Here we go changing the history again to suit someones personal agenda.

We are have definitely entered the twilight zone (que the music) and there is no way back... Goodbye America - it was nice knowing you...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:54 | 6234061 Ms. Erable
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If one were to show the Red, White, and Blue and the Stars 'n Bars side-by-side to people NOT in the FUSA, I'm pretty sure I know which one would be regarded as a symbol of tyranny and oppression by the vast majority.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6234009 JLee2027
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More political correctness. LOL

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:51 | 6234047 Realname
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I believe this goes beyond political correctness. This is backdoor censorship. It will only get worse from here on out.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:58 | 6234091 TBT or not TBT
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But this will end Badthink once and for all.  What's wrong with you people?   There's only one cure for some badthinkers, but once the solution is implemented, wow.  A thousand year FSA party will ensue.  

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:59 | 6234093 El Vaquero
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This is out and out revisionist history. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:11 | 6234425 TheFourthStooge-ing
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Preview of new app from the RoadApple App Store:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NITBfc1EOBo&t=23s

Maybe something bad, maybe something good, I guess we'll never know...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:14 | 6234179 Kassandra
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Oh for Gods sake...this entire confederate flag thing has gotten completely out of hand. This is insane...as insane as taking that flag off the General Lee.
What is wrong with these people??

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:40 | 6234293 Billy the Poet
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They think they own you. Ironic, huh?

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 09:56 | 6237342 gladius17
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Not ironic, since very few if any of my ancestors owned any slaves. Just simply unacceptable...and really bad karma.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:21 | 6234022 knukles
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Fabulous Week for Redacted History and Lawful Lawlessness
SCOTUS males shit up as it goes because that's what the intent was, not what the law says.  Same things happened in Nazi Germany.  The New Judges just ruled as they saw fit, new interpretations of the laws on the books never repealed. 

Words no longer have meaning and some interpretations of some laws are more important than others.

Let's abolish the past as it's not been very nice to some "folks".  Redacted History.  Shades of 1984 and Soviet Empire.  The textbooks were rewritten daily to conform to the moment's Propaganda Meme.

Pure Unadulterated Lawlessness.
The Progressives are in for a surprise when the Opposition (whom ever that might be some day) turn table on them.
That's why there are laws.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:47 | 6234023 MayIMommaDogFac...
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Two words: Dr. Dre

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:13 | 6234176 BullyBearish
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Divide and conquer/distract/obfuscate..."By Way of Deception Thou Shalt Do War"

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:42 | 6234298 Grinder74
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WHY DOES APPLE STILL HAVE INDIANA JONES MOVIES AND GAMES WITH ALL THOSE NAZI REFERENCES AND IMAGES?!?!?!?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:22 | 6234699 MFL8240
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Should see about reversing the result of the Civil War.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:47 | 6234784 Blythes Master
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Fuck Cook the cum guzzling faggot and the Crapple empire.

Shit is getting dumb and dumber.

I'm offended by your faggot flag, Cook, remove all your faggot apps from the crapple store.

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 00:28 | 6236226 IronForge
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Those most reliant on Public Assistance Programs happen to be Single White Mothers in the South, IIRC.

Most of them work, too.

Would you care to continue mocking the Poor?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:40 | 6233984 Waylon Bits
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I just want to kill the mainstream corporate media.... watch it bleed.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:41 | 6233989 KnuckleDragger-X
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Orwell would understand.......

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:42 | 6233993 Ramesees
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This is what happens when you give SJWs an inch. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:45 | 6234015 nuubee
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I was born in the west. I've never spent time in the south (Florida doesn't count). I am completely agnostic towards various races and subscribe more to what TJ Sotomayor says about his own race, as it actually can be followed logically...

 

But honestly, who isn't feeling like flying the confederate flag on the 4th? This is just bullshit. The civil war, win or lose, was part of our shared history. Trying to erase symbols of that struggle only serves to help everyone repeat that same struggle.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:50 | 6234040 chunga
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This place here is sold out!

http://www.rebelstore.com/

You can always get some paint and make signs.

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 09:59 | 6237353 gladius17
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I've repurposed a few Obamacare signs, from about 60-70 I've taken down soon after they've been put up near every intersection down here, as if from some sleazy title loan place. The flag is easy and fun to draw, and with a big enough marker you can go right over the old letters no problem.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:57 | 6234081 Daisy Duke
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I live in Tennessee as have at least 5 generations of my family. You are absolutely right that the Civil War was part of our shared history, and it is extremely relevant to our current circumstances. The Civil War has everything to do with people fighting tyranny and oppression from federal overlords. On our present trajectory, I don't think it is too out of line to speculate that some states could want to secede again in the not-too-distant future. Unlike our first Civil War, however, technology and massive arms purchases by our federal overlords will quickly squash any attempts to resist subjugation. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:34 | 6234263 smokintoad
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They're painting the civil war as an archaic symptom of slavery,  and thus the "history is decided".   It wouldn't do to have it out there in the public conciousness where  some of the "slower" folks might even start to see the light.  Someone might make the connection with subjects of the British crown engaging in a civil war that led to the formation of a new free nation four score and some odd number of years earlier.  The colonists won and it becomes the "Revolutionary War" and is celebrated.  The South lost and it becomes the "Civil War" and becomes a dark chapter of history better left forgotten. 

The audacity of those southerners to celebrate the fact that their ancestors had the guts to put up a damn good fight against tyranny.  

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6233995 bigrooster
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FULL RETARD!  Should we burn all books about the Civil War?  

Good thing that you can still buy Nazi shit on eBay!

http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_from=R40&_trksid=p2050601.m570.l1313.TR1...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:47 | 6234019 Shaznardickleze...
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Achievement unlocked!
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Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:52 | 6234003 nope-1004
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Anyone still wonder if Apple is independent from .gov?

The media hype, the fake lines for "new versions", the CNBC pom-poms.

In addition, the financial killing of Blackberry by Wall Street. Blackberry has the most secure encryption which is why it had to be broken.

Ya, let me go read section 19 again.  FFS, the US is owned by Wall Street and totally corrupt.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:52 | 6234052 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Why do you think they call it an Apple (throat) eye (i) phone?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6234008 WTFUD
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I find Obama and Congress 100 times more sickening than the flag. Can we get rid of those MF's first.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:55 | 6234608 Cruel Aid
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they keep getting voted in, wtf?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:44 | 6234010 booboo
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Blow back from people discovering what the Civil War was really about should be interesting.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:53 | 6234054 Billy Sol Estes
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Like that shit will ever happen. Haven't all those books been burned and articles removed from the net?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:57 | 6234083 i_call_you_my_base
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Most americans probably think the civil war was simply very polite.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:47 | 6234172 MrPalladium
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The civil war was driven by fear of northern manufacturers that an independent Dixie would enact tarrifs against northern states manufactures the same as United States imposed against English and European manufactures. Thus the Northern states had what amounts to a captive market for its manufacturing output in the largely agrarian South, which had little manufacturing of its own. Independence would cause huge losses to the commercial interests in the Northern states and a huge revenue loss to the federal government which was dependent upon excise taxes and tarrifs for all of its revenue. In addition, the booming railroad companies did not want to have to deal with the South as an independent country with independent taxing and regulatory power over their long lines, and the expense of "capturing" a new set of elected officials. The dream of manifest destiny and control over a vast continent was the vision of the four northern War Governors and the railroad barrons. Holding the union together was well worth the price of hundreds of thousands of dead, the casualty list populated primarily from the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. The northern states with the most to gain financially suffered relatively few casualties. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:51 | 6234336 corporatewhore
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Kudos for you for posting the truth.  Nonetheless, I as your professor teaching nonsense history, give you an F since you have failed to learn political correctness theory.

Try explaining your truth to the bullshit taught out of today's textbooks.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:18 | 6234455 Depression is Coming
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The south was in economic shambles while northern states were going through an industrial revolution of sorts. Lincoln forced a war to preserve his legacy. He was selfish and wanted to be president of all states and not half of them. He didn't give 2 shits about slaves. The south would have been forced to rejoin the north no more than 50 years later based purely off of their economic situation. Northern states were trading more and more with Europe and not relying on cotton picking south.

Lincoln was one of the worst and most selfish presidents in history... Somehow going down as a fucking hero and liberator of negroes.

Somehow the confederate flag hit the MSM after flying for fucking generations...and is being taken down, taken out of stores, banned in other places...why? People are suddenly so affected by a symbol of slavery????????

Well I commend you for taking a page out of the jewbook and playing the victim card until you get what you want. Unfortunately we can erase slavery from our history all together if you like...still won't help blacks get ahead..their own culture prevents it. Not some fucking flag

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 10:05 | 6237372 gladius17
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"The south would have been forced to rejoin the north no more than 50 years later based purely off of their economic situation."

You give us FAR too little credit. In fact, the South would have caught up to and exceeded the North. Slavery would have ended regardless, due to the industrial revolution...which we had plenty of hand in. Just not enough, at that time, due to the focus on agriculture.

Never forget who invented the world's first naval submarine, and successfully used it in battle to sink a Union ship. That's Confederate ingenuity at work there. Too many of that generation died off in that horrible war, but 150 years of genetic mixing and improvement later, we are once again ready for battle. And we're more ready than ever.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:46 | 6234016 i_call_you_my_base
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The civil war is racist.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:57 | 6234080 booboo
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So was the Emancipation Proclamation, how dare Lincoln free only the southern slaves so his wifes family and his banker buds could keep their negro's in chains. Politics is a funny thing.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:46 | 6234017 Budnacho
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Obviously next is just getting rid of the South altogether and just calling it the "Almost-North"....

Let's have fun with this and say we will Boycott all Apple products now..

On the Plus side it's good to know that by doing this Racisim is all over and we can all sing kumbaya together!.....Yaaaaa Diversity.

And all it took was removing flags....

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:46 | 6234018 The Chief
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All you people that own Iphones, Ipods and Macs.....YOU are to blame.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:50 | 6234041 i_call_you_my_base
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Yes, if I had just bought a windows machine americans wouldn't be as dumb as a bag of hammers.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:46 | 6234020 Winston Churchill
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He who controls the present, controls the past.He who controls the past, controls the future,

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:49 | 6234038 knukles
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J Goebbels and E Bernays are loudly cheering from Hell.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:36 | 6234246 e_goldstein
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while JM Keynes is dancing a jig.

and no, that's not ray's cyst.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:52 | 6234051 Winston Churchill
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Who is the George  Orwell hater ?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:15 | 6234188 centerline
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Serial junker has been around for awhile. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:20 | 6234208 knukles
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You're in good company Winnie.  I get one almost every single post.  Rite of passage, emblem of honor.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:45 | 6234309 ThirdWorldDude
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So, you've made a few enemies in your life? Good, that means you have principles and are a man enough to stand behind them, not bending your spine to every fool that comes across.

- from my late grandfather, one of my best lessons in life101

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 21:09 | 6235709 XitSam
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With no disrespect to your late grandfather: Obama has no principles, yet lots of enemies.

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 00:43 | 6236255 ThirdWorldDude
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One crucial difference though: puppets don't have principles, they have handlers.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:47 | 6234024 Billy Sol Estes
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Ban Age of Empires, everyone was a slave back then!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:04 | 6234118 Flagit
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Checkers. Most racist game ever. Blacks vs the Redskins for amusement.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:47 | 6234026 roadhazard
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Jesus Christ what a FUBAR.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:48 | 6234030 The Delicate Genius
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This is that doofus Schmidt, spineless weasel.

I wonder how millions of dead Korean, Vietnamese, Cambodian and Laotian civilians feel about Old Glory.

Apparently - it doesn't matter worth a speck - them slopes was killed fair and square by our boys defending their freedom!

Huzzah!

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:13 | 6234175 rejected
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Yea,,, but hey,,,, the Nazi's in Ukraine love us. LOL.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:48 | 6234032 Skip
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Authors may need to change covers

WALMART sells Castro, Iranian flags

Many memorials to Confederates, other slave holders: What happens to them?

New Orleans mayor says time to tear down statue of Robert E. Lee

Group demands removal of confederate site in Orlando

Film critic calls for 'GONE WITH THE WIND' to be banished to museum

"This sycophantic grovel is obviously absurd: capitulating to the on-going highly orchestrated MSM pogrom against the Battle Flag is just shows abject cowardice. very predictable given the facts I laid out in Diagnosis: South Carolina GOP Has Terminal ADD (Adelson Dollar Disorder)"

Who Is Really Responsible For Motivating The Charleston Shooting? (Not The CCC)

“How could the news be blowing up the Trayvon Martin case while hundreds of these black on White murders got ignored?” Dylann Roof

The world in which White boys and girls were growing up became more alien, more hostile. It was no longer their world. They no longer had a sense of family, of belonging. They no longer had clear standards and models, no longer a clear image of what was expected of them. When young Whites lost their sense of belonging in the chaotic, racially mixed world into which they suddenly were thrust in the 1960s and 1970s, many of them also lost their sense of responsibility to that world.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:12 | 6234165 rejected
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"The world in which White boys and girls were growing up became more alien, more hostile. It was no longer their world."

All courtesy of their politically correct parents, 'education' and religious centers.

What an enjoyable world we are leaving them....

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:56 | 6234825 Mariposa de Oro
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There's a video on prisonplanet where an Amazon rep admits the US Gov ordered them to stop selling the stars and bars flag

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:48 | 6234033 Dre4dwolf
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in 30 years, America wont even be mentioned in its own history books due to so called political correctness LOL

FLAGS DONT KILL PEOPLE, IDIOTS ON PRESCRIPTION DRUGS KILL PEOPLE.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:00 | 6234099 Rainman
Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:49 | 6234036 Consuelo
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Plenty of free speech, association and expression to go around.    As long as it is the correct form.    What's not to like...?

 

/s

 

 

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:10 | 6234154 Dewey Cheatum Howe
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Like the Metallica lyric

You can do it your own way as long as you do it how i(phone/y/ticaly) say.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:58 | 6234042 rejected
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Has anyone noticed that shit like this always seems to crop up when something evil is being done to them. The TPP, The NDAA, Patriot Act......

Keep in mind these illustrious corporations like Apple had a hand in writing that top secret  trade treaty We the People are not allowed to know what's inside. 

As usual we are little bots controlled by the transnational corporations.

Never mind.... just another con-spiracy fact.

 

Edit: Independence Day is coming up,,,, I'm sure most will all be strutting about declaring how free and independent we are while watching the pretty fireworks.

Perfect display of mass hypocrisy and delusional thought.

Amerika

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NAM3rIBG5k

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:51 | 6234043 Pantalone
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I'm lucky enough not to be able to afford an Apple product. 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:51 | 6234045 kowalli
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orwell 1984

The totalitarian government of Oceania is constantly at war with one of the other two totalitarian superpowers that dominate the world: Eurasia and Eastasia.The objective is not to win the war, but to maintain a constant state of war in order to keep its citizens under control. When it is at war with Eastasia, the government declares that it has always been at war with Eastasia, that its people are an eternally hated enemy that must be destroyed. When the sides change, the same thing is said about Eurasia. It is considered every patriotic citizen's duty to believe both statements are true.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:51 | 6234046 sleigher
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This is fucking retarded!  I don't own any apple products but wtf ever.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:53 | 6234053 Sanity Bear
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your culture is next

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:53 | 6234055 youngman
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I will say one thing...that kid started what he wanted.....its all Blacks vs Whites now.....and the racists on both sides are screaming it all over the place....

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:56 | 6234075 Quinvarius
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Obama got a Nobel Peace Prize.  Race baiting cant be wrong.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:58 | 6234057 SmittyinLA
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it wasn't so much civil war memorialia which the state was interested in but military strategy games in general.

BTW what about the racist Lincoln and his negro deportation plan which Booth interrupted, Lincoln was from Illinois, had he lived ill wouldn't be a Negro haven that it is today but Liberia would be. 

African Americans should have a John Wilks Booth memorial statue put up in his honor for preventing the Lincoln planned ethnic cleansing of America.

"Lincoln the noble anti slavery saint" was product like "Reagan the Conservative", he only emancipated the southern slaves. 

 http://www.archives.gov/exhibits/featured_documents/emancipation_proclam...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:54 | 6234060 Quinvarius
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Ask blacks if they will say "thank you" to the dead Northerners who fought in the Civil War to free them.  They won't.  I have seen it.  All this racial crap has nothing to do with equality or stopping police brutality where it happens.  It is pure hatred of whites.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:59 | 6234074 kowalli
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civil war was not about slavery, so black people are right, and white people are stupid sheep

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:03 | 6234094 Quinvarius
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And you exactly proved my point.  It is impossible for haters to show gratitude to whites.  Your post is exactly what comes of asking for a simple thank-you to those that died ending slavery in the US.  Can't even thank a dead man who died in your cause.  You'd rather tell a lie to yourself that the Civil War had nothing to with Slavery.

And something else.  Every time you post a response refusing to say thank-you and trying to justify that, you only make yourself look worse.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:09 | 6234127 kowalli
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slavery isn't ended in USA....debt slave is still a slave, they can do anything with them as they could do with actuall slaves.

Why we(Russians) should have gratitude to white people of USA if they killed aborigines of America?

You have more rights than black people, can do more, but you are the same=/

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:08 | 6234139 kowalli
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"thank you' that you died for nothing? Why should i positively response for every stupid thing that you can say with words "thank you"?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:14 | 6234177 Quinvarius
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Ya ne sprashavau ty govarat "spacibo" c kashdi otvet.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:16 | 6234189 kowalli
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You should talk in english, because your google translate is bad...

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:20 | 6234211 Quinvarius
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That isn't google.  And since I didn't do it in cyrillic, you can't use Google to understand it.  Which is probably your issue.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:45 | 6234310 kowalli
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tvoi rysskuu eto google translate, xvatut naglo vratb

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:46 | 6234481 Quinvarius
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Hvatayu s chem otvet?  von nichevo.  e, ty pishesh plohoii, prosto plohoii.  And since you clearly need this in English, even my meager skills can see that, X in cyrillic is H in English.  y is u.  You just took letters that looked like cyrillic versions assuming they sounded the same.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:08 | 6234656 kowalli
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this is why I said that you used google translate, because we are using different latin symbols to talk if we haven't cyrillic symbols.

but you don't know it because you don't know russian.

Stupid western troll. You can't mimicrate and tell bs, because you are stupid as horse shit.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 19:46 | 6235276 Quinvarius
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Yes.  I do speak Russian.  You are the one that doesn't know what sounds cyrilic makes.  I am not troll here.  Clearly this website does not accept cyrillic.  So the words have to be sounded out.  That lets me know you don't know what the sounds are that go with the letters.  You are guessing and guessing wrong.  You could not even sound out the word for "Russian".  You thought the ikraka and the e sound were both U sounds, and that the U was a y.  And you did this because you were guessing.   How can you not pronounce the name of your own country?  Also, b is a soft symbol is Russian.  It is not pronounced.  Yet itshows up as a literal "B" on the end of your infinitive becasue you thought it was one.  The only reason I could even barely understand your nonsense was after recognizing your mistakes.  And you never once answered anything I said that was in Russian.  You assumed I was repeating myself in the English, but I was not.  

Mne ne nado Google.  No, ty ne moshyesh proveryat ono, potemu ty ne ponamayesh skazal po rooski.  Yesli ty menya ponamal, ty otvetil bwe.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:14 | 6234182 Mrmojorisin515
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I usually enjoy your comments, but you are out of line on this one.  The civil war was about power, just like everything that is occuring now.  Slavery was added to the mix to keep the english out of the war.  Do your research first.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:19 | 6234201 kowalli
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  Slavery was added to have more meat and troops. England was destroying slavery ship to destroy economy of USA, nothing more, and to have more slaves to England themself. England have many conflicts at the same time, so it was hard for them to punish americans

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:28 | 6234239 Quinvarius
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LOL.  Dude.  The war that ended slavery in the US was the civil war.  It is not out of line at all.  You are just of the wrong assumption that what is going on in America now is some civil rights push.  And it is very uncomfortable to see the answers you get when you ask a black person to say thank-you to dead white boy who fought for him.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:35 | 6234513 Volkodav
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You have no perspective...

Slavery in loss of rights, increased control started with end of civil war.

there were free people before that, not after..

Lincoln was first draconian acts, depradations against free peoples.

 

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 14:43 | 6234553 Quinvarius
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There is that.  And then there is actually being chained up and forced to work in the fields.  I think the degrees of difference are enough that they are actually two different things.  I will concede you 1/10th of a point.

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 10:10 | 6237409 gladius17
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"And then there is actually being chained up and forced to work in the fields."

Do you pay taxes, asshole?

 

Why or why not?

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:47 | 6234315 rejected
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The slavery issue was the WMD of that time. Hypocrisy at it's finest. In the north slavery was called indentured service. Much suffering, many died.

But of course this is unimportant due to the fact that they were white.

And all you better than thou hypocrites buying your cheap Apple ithing manufactured by workers receiving  $2 per 16 hour day,,,

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 15:43 | 6234768 mastersnark
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They died for a lot of things, "ending slavery" wasn't one of them.

Fri, 06/26/2015 - 05:55 | 6236262 IronForge
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Many have; and do.

"We" as a country do not educate our Children about the Abolitionist Movement, Underground Railroad, and the Negro Units of the North.

A Damn shame, really.  Being half Black, I shake my head every time I hear/see some FUBAR'd Negro spew out some unjustified hated against  "All White People".

Does anyone recall the Attack on Reginald Denny?  IIRC someone wrote that he was allegedly on his way to deliver construction matl to a low income housing project; and he was attacked at the intersection of MLK and JFK (Urban myth?  can't verify quickly).

A Damn Shame; and of course - the ignorant N-types don't care...

...which leads to one reason why Blacks are the majority of Violent Crime Perpetrators and Victims.  A dedicated and well armed Neighborhood Watch working closely w/the Police should take care of most problems.

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 12:57 | 6234065 Skip
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Does NOT surprise me, Steve Jobs widow, within a week of his death was sleeping with and financing a mulatto and she has always been big on supporting non-whites. The elite HATE us, just remember that.

What’s coming?

More black on White violence:

On Twitter, from blacks: #WeWillShootBack - Tweets that would get any one of us tracked down, prosecuted and fired from our jobs if we said the same about blacks or other non-Whites.

twitter.com/search?q=%23wewillshootback&src=tyah&vertical=default&f=tweets

This video from Brazil shows a 13 year old white girl being attacked because she was the only child in the school who was "blonde" meaning "white". This happens daily in America's schools as well.

NO matter what living creature in nature, they ALL defend their children, but not the mainstream whites of USA, Brazil, England, see the Rotherham scandal. Yet, despite the violence against white children you don't see white parents doing ANYTHING about it.

And now something ABC, CBS, NBC, Fox, CNN, et al will never show you:
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=ea3_1410435260
Girl was beaten for being blonde

Thu, 06/25/2015 - 13:22 | 6234219 centerline
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They are doing everything they can to stoke a race war.  And, sadly, most people are just too stupid to see it coming. 

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