First Person: 150th Anniversary of the Civil War

[ironbmike]

in honor of the war's anniversary, check out The Jerks Corps (google it) for some commentary on the war!

[GordanMFreeman]

150 years and still stupid people racists pollute this cpuntry and make it look bad

[MrOutlawCountry]

stupid union faggots

[iknewitalready]

Slavery was too profitable that Americans had to wage 'civil' war to abolish it.

[MrOutlawCountry]

@iknewitalready you are an idiot. Get out of your schools history books and learn real history. The civil war had nothing to do with slavery. The south was fighting for states rights. The north didnt know what they were fighting for until about 5 years into the war someone made up the idea that they were fighting to get rid of slavery. Slavery was going out of style already before the war began. The north had just as many slaves as the south. THE CIVIL WAR WAS NOT ABOUT SLAVERY PEOPLE.

[SuperFightingFrog]

@MrOutlawCountry Of those state rights was to keep slavery.

[iknewitalready]

Just Wars. Noble Wars. Noble Men.

"3 Holy Wars." - Howard Zinn.

/watch?v=XUBYI97cUgU&

[iknewitalready]

Can bloodshed & wars ever be civil?

What is so civil about US civil war?

/watch?v=sDkhzHQO7jY

/watch?v=2Rlqjxst6xU

[ODDNOMAD]

for some people, the civil war never ended, i still see them in their pickup trucks with comfederate flag bumper stickers....still pissed off the YANKEES won. thats why i wonder why they call us the United States of America if we are all not really united in the first place

[AngelLadyinSC]

@ODDNOMAD I am A Southern Woman. I Am not a racist. I am not still "fighting the war". The fact of the matter is this: The South was attacked. You obviously do not know History at all. And whatever you think, this was a War of Northern Aggresion. In my opinion, we should give the North to all you progressive liberals and leave us alone! And by the way, I DO drive a pickup, I do have a Confederate Flag, and I always will. If you don't like it, don't look!

[ODDNOMAD]

@AngelLadyinSC i dont like it because of what it stands for....and if you have it on your truck i know what you stand for....and i do know history enough to know that it repeats itself. dont get mad at me because i know all you confederates still feel bitter, its the truth, and denying it on youtube comments aint fooling me...me and you both know what the truth really is...i dont deal with opinions i deal in facts

[sblove99]

dumb.



[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Do all Canadians and Brits have an inferiority complex or is it just the ones that are fucking retarded?

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok We think America makes good movies but the rest of it, you can keep it. Dirty, dangerous and filled with horrible people. Men are all thieves and woman are mostly sluts. If Americans could see themselves from our eyes for one day they would puke at how rediculous they have become. Your a joke. The economic melt down caused 100% by America and spread around the world by greedy piece of shit Wall Street salemen will "never be forgiven"

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Ignoring the rest of your post, why do you believe Wall Street is responsible for the economic decline of other nations? Could you give me a specific/detailed reason or list of reasons? Also, do you believe that Canadian or European (in general) social programs are sustainable? Last I checked budget deficits were pretty high up on the list of issues for European and Canadian politicians.

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 LOL Oh yes, 100% America's fault. The credit crunch just knocked down an unsustainable house of cards. Declining working class population, insanely ineffective/expensive/thuggish social programs, shitty/inflexible implementation of a universal currency (that's killing the EU right now, btw), risky loans to weakest EU nations (who are constantly begging for bailouts from those who actually have good fiscal policies), risky over investment into developing/Slav nations, etc.

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok Yes 100% America's fault. Every bank worldwide that failed or is suffering is due to the fact they purchased American defective loan bundles. This is a FACT. No other single item or multiple item can be blamed. Trillions in America AAA rated CRAP certifried by American Moody's and overlooked by American regulators caused the melt down. America oil traders have drive oil up to records with the largest reserves in 75 years? Wheat, corn, metals all driven up by American traders.

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok NO! WRONG, the world was humming along GREAT, Canada where I am was booming with record exports to China and Japan and USA THEN American backed mortage bundles were found out to be worthless. Credit rating agencies and US government regulators had AAA rated about 7 Trillion in bad bundles. US had done this for so long no one could figure out where they were and how bad they were and the banks and governments that bought them as AAA were told sorry they now have junk. 100% USA.

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Is that why Canada's deficit is less than it was in 1997? And the US caused high oil prices? Not BP's perpetual incompetence? Also isn't Canada the biggest exporter of oil to the US? (you know what they say, when the host is sick so is the parasite). And last I checked the faulty loans are estimated to cost European bankers no more than 2 trillion dollars over the next ten years (and that's a liberal estimate); compare that to the EU's 14+ trillion dollar deficit (lol).

[derberg19486]

@glukaschlok Its all crap, America fucked us all in the ass and never ONCE said "ah sorry" and not ONE American went to jail? Canada was forced in 1977 to join the world oil trade against our wishes by....who? you guest it America. Join and give us your oil or else. But... we are close to a deal with China to divert 60% of our production to them, just doing the American thing and going where the money is. Pipeline and oil terminal is being built to load ships right now with China's money. LOL.

[victorthegreat96]

@derberg19486

@glukaschlok

No Offence , But This Is A YOUTUBE VIDEO, NOT HISTORY 101 haha

[glukaschlok]

@derberg19486 Then by your account America has nothing to worry about. We control the world oil trade so why should we be worrying about Canada? (which on a global scale, isn't even close to being the largest supplier or having the largest reserves on Earth). Canada bent over and spread their cheeks for us, it's not like were buying oil against their will. What about deficits? All you did was go off about oil, but I suppose that's okay since it's the only redeeming thing about Canada.

[gounc93]

lolz

[jxsilicon9]

A war reenactor is the most pathetic person alive.

[THEARBITER641]

Who gives a shit about a terrible war that no one wants to remember because of the betrayal and brothers fighting brothers?

today ALSO AP marks 50 years of the first man in space

[SweeterThanKisses]

admiral flag hey....hmmm,i like it...long as it dont insult god..

[Kurohadol]

150 years? seems longer than that.