I don't notice any "virtue signaling" in my posts. I can't actually see an angle to how someone could be "virtue signalling" by defending the rights of slave owning states to leave the union. You will have to explain your angle on this to me.
If you don't see it, no body can explain it to you. Read enough DiLorenzo and lewrockwell.com and eventually you might realize the smarminess of people who turn the supposed rights of slaveowners into a moral cause.
Mostly I get opprobrium instead of admiration, so there isn't much "reward" to be had for this sort of virtue signalling, which defeats the entire purpose of virtue signaling (to be thought better of by everyone else) as I understand the term. :)
Virtue signalling isn't about making people think better of oneself. It's about making a public display that makes one think better of one's self.
That display is directed at a particular audience. If one isn't a part of that audience, one doesn't think better of the person doing the signalling.
Most of the people who respond to your posts don't think better of you, but what you post clearly makes you think better of yourself.
It’s always about the money. Like the $4 billion in slave holdings?