Comments on: History Lesson

By: Tayl

Tayl — Sat, 01 May 2010 04:20:12 +0000

LOL @emanresu
that comment was win =p

By: emanresu

emanresu — Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:21:45 +0000

Well….in her defense..there’s no studying on the plantation

By: nevart

nevart — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:47:53 +0000

Nah…. you were right dreamingawake….. it was not about slavery. Slavery was just a good way to stir things up and help to set white folks against each other. The same tactics (make it seem like a religious issue instead of a financial one) are still being used in war today.

By: dreamingawake

dreamingawake — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:33:55 +0000

Sensible Madness…
thank you for clarifying.
Just so you know, your drawn out post was not a complete waste of effort. I read your message in it’s entirety and it was actually enlightening in a way. You see…I had intended to post something about the Civil War NOT being about slavery, but then I read your comment and I actually have to agree with you.

By: hellzyeahdouche15

hellzyeahdouche15 — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 17:37:30 +0000

@Sensible Madness- you have too much time on your hands.

I was on this last night and one of the things said :I need to get a tan, this whole winter/cold/dry thing isn’t working out for me, and her friend goes: “Uhmmm, we’re black.”

ROTFL!

pwnage.

By: Insane

Insane — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:20:45 +0000

You seem to be forgetting the biggest truth in all of this. Abraham Lincoln was a politician. Politicians lie in order to achieve some goal. Do you not think it possible for him to appear sympathetic to the Southeners (and slave traders/users etc.) to maintain popularity?

By: youcancallmemick

youcancallmemick — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:29:46 +0000

If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it… – Abraham Lincoln.

you’re all dumb.

By: tomchuk

tomchuk — Sat, 12 Dec 2009 08:59:33 +0000

lol nicole got ownnnnnnnnned

By: lostintranslation

lostintranslation — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 09:31:44 +0000

@Mr Haiku – awesome!

By: Titty Twister

Titty Twister — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:17:25 +0000

Wow, that’s like a Jew wishing Hitler was never stopped…

By: Mr Haiku

Mr Haiku — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:39:25 +0000

What we’ve got here is,
Failure to communicate.
Nic, you just can’t teach.

By: lamebookpro

lamebookpro — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:33:43 +0000

am i in fucking school?

By: your name here

your name here — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 04:31:45 +0000

This is quite possibly the most intelligent “comments” page I have ever read here on lamebook. Well done. No one called anyone a douchebag or said anything idiotic with the exception of sea bea calling sensible madness “lame”. Which was, you know…lame.

By: becky

becky — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 03:14:57 +0000

I am speechless.

By: SeeBea

SeeBea — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 02:19:46 +0000

@Sensible Madness
See now, that’s what we need more of here a sense of humor.

By: Insane

Insane — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:55:21 +0000

@Sensible Madness: Thanks again for filling in the blanks. To increase the basic level of my understanding (not being one for war knowledge) would it not be fair to say that almost all wars are started from some political agenda?

@Moneyshot NZ: “Also Nicole is a muppet how can you live in a country and not be *a where* of your own history that impacts on your culture like that ?”. classic!!!!

By: Moneyshot NZ

Moneyshot NZ — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:33:42 +0000

Its a fascinating part of your history, the use of trench warfare pre WW1, the brothers that fought on different sides, the first submarine use, steel battleships etc.
Its a shame the White trash skinheads and KKK have taken the Stars and Bars and turned into their flag like that, I think it belittles the Southerns fight and their dead, why do people let them away with it ?

Also Nicole is a muppet how can you live in a country and not be a where of your own history that impacts on your culture like that ?

By: Sensible Madness

Sensible Madness — Fri, 11 Dec 2009 00:09:53 +0000

@Insane: not so much for the north to impose their anti-slave laws on the South. It was more that the South felt they were overpowered by the North in the federal government, and there was little to stop the North from doing so, even if the North had not shown any real interest in outlawing slavery in the South. The President’s stated policy was to contain slavery, allowing it in the states it was already allowed, but prohibiting it everywhere else, including in new states that may join the Union later. Of course, the South believed doing so would eventually leave them isolated and overwhelmingly outnumbered by free states, making an eventual blanket ban on slavery all but inevitable.

@Jenivere Britain was officially neutral, but spent a great deal of money building blockade runners to get through the Union naval blockade that surrounded the Confederacy throughout much of the war. This allowed Britain to buy Southern cotton, and gave the Confederacy some cash, but not enough to alter the course of the war in any significant way.

In fact, the Confederacy’s entire military strategy largely depended on getting either Britain or France to enter the war on their behalf. Unfortunately for them, neither nation did, although Britain felt the Confederacy would probably win. Britain toyed with the idea of officially recognizing the Confederacy and offering to mediate a peace settlement between the North and South when it looked as though the South might win in 1862. However, the Confederate defeat at Antietam made a Confederate win look highly unlikely, and the idea was dropped. The Emancipation Proclamation in 1863 put the final nail in the coffin of the idea that Britain might be persuaded to join the Confederacy, since Britain had itself outlawed slavery some 30 years earlier, and while the war had mostly been about slavery before, the Proclamation made it explicitly so.

By: Jenivere

Jenivere — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:36:08 +0000

*(take out the “we were”, oops)

By: QuothTheRav3n

QuothTheRav3n — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:35:08 +0000

Well if the Civil War didn’t happen she wouldn’t have to study, at all.

By: Jenivere

Jenivere — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:34:58 +0000

I browse lamebook to remind me that there are far more and indeed worse idiots out there than the few that inhabit my friends list. It’s good to see a few people still have braincells too, and know how to use them. Bravo, Sensible Madness, you have successfully vaguely educated a brit about a war we were (I’m 99% sure) we had nothing to do with. In return would you like to know about some of our ridiculous monarchs?…maybe some other time then.

By: Insane

Insane — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:34:36 +0000

@Sensible Madness #17
Thanks for the history lesson. Where I went to school we did not need to know about the Civil War. So as you could imagine I had a grim understanding at best and your comment [Blog] helped to fill in alot of blanks. Thank you.

Nicole: I am an Indigenous Australian and even I know that the (basic) reason for the Civil War was for the North to superimpose their ‘anti-slave’ laws on the south. In saying that, yes you would be a Billionaire had it not been for the Civil War.

By: Anitalaff

Anitalaff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:41:56 +0000

I wish I had a time machine, so that I could take ignorant little girls for a ride into the future and show them the myriad ways they will have their asses owned by being dumb as posts.

By: Anitalaff

Anitalaff — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:39:23 +0000

Doomed to repeat

By: bry

bry — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:01:25 +0000

Sensible Madness, you’re awesome.

And also, I LOL’d VERY loudly when reading this. Good job, Nicole!

By: Sensible Madness

Sensible Madness — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:54:19 +0000

@SeeBea yes, that’s probably the most likely explanation.

By: SeeBea

SeeBea — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:46:10 +0000

@ Sensible Madness
Could it be cuz you’re lame?

By: lamebookpro

lamebookpro — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 21:20:58 +0000

why the fuck is lamebook deleting my fucking posts??? is it because I’m motherfucking cussing? fuck you. fuck you. fuck you. now lamebook is lame…….fuck, shit, piss, cunt

By: Big Bud Niles

Big Bud Niles — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:10:57 +0000

I can’t stop thinking about a Nicole/Ashley sandwich…I would do them both very fast and very hard…I also like robots and sausages…

By: The Scarlet Pimple

The Scarlet Pimple — Thu, 10 Dec 2009 19:03:58 +0000

Maybe you should go back to school, Grandma Frances, lololol.