• scarabic@lemmy.world
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    Slavery was such an ingrained institution that there was for sure some disruption brought by ending it - even some disruption for the enslaved.

    People can mine this for evidence that the Union harmed people by ending slavery, but that’s a bad faith outlet for slavery apologists, and nothing more.

    Good change can be disruptive. I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though. It’s kind of right there in their name.

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      I guess we can always count on Conservatives to place “no change” above all other priorities though.

      Unless the changes are hiking tariffs, gutting regulations, and embarking on a new generation of wars.

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        That’s the terrifying thing: Republicans are no longer conservative and we don’t know what the hell they are.

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          Republicans have been fascist since McKinley. Anyone who tells you otherwise is selling you something.