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[M. Espinola, slurring] Recall, the 'neo-confederates' always excuse southern slavery

Let's get this straight.

Refusal to condemn, refusal to participate in, or sign off on, your rant (which is what it is), is not the same thing as endorsing, or excusing, or morally catering to whatever you're complaining about, capiche?

Just because I want Frank Nitti to have a fair trial, doesn't mean I'm in league with his rum-runners.

But you do that constantly, and I think you know better.

I agree with your overall policy aim, which is, no bond labor anywhere in North America -- it should be a free-labor zone and exempt from coolie labor (California -- we don't talk about that with moral rancor, do we?), peonage (New Mexico, in Spanish-speaking communities), or indenture (which Tata International tried to re-introduce to the Left Coast from India, 12 years ago, and promptly got sued by some Hewlett-Packard employees who found themselves competing with indentured bondmen from Bangalore).

That said, how you achieve your policy goals makes all the difference. You can't just take the community hostage and demand things be done your way when others disagree for substantial reasons having to do with their continuing to be able to get a living themselves. You will admit, won't you, it's a weak play to tender a moral demand that all roulette croupiers give up their careers so we can have a principle of roulette-free gaming?

Oh, and I'm not a "neo-Confederate", either. Let's get that straight, too, while we're at it. The only thing I've said like that is to suggest that southern New York and New England might profitably be kicked out of the Union and their blue voters cast adrift, to raft on a sea of misery with their socialist neighbors in Ontario and the Maritimes.

I've called your attention to the inappropriateness of that label a couple of times now.

i've (sadly) come to the conclusion that one/both of two things are true about damnyankees calling southrons SILLY terms like "neo-confederates".

either/or both may be true:

1. they are too stupid to know that there are NO such people (or at least i've never met even one!)

2. or they DO know the term is MEANINGLESS/DISHONEST & are just being their NATURAL hate-FILLED,ARROGANT, DIShonorable, self-righteous selves.

free dixie,sw

"Yo, Cod! I did quote you -- now get on back to Beantown's bars and finish drinking your life away. I promise we won't miss you.", and then he states.....

"Oh, and I'm not a "neo-Confederate", either. Let's get that straight, too, while we're at it."

Shades of Dr. Goebbels' argumentum ad nauseam?

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

President Abraham Lincoln

In here everyone is abundantly clear of the shaky ground on which you stagger. Now, you can return & "finish drinking your life away", since I do not drink another stronger then AJ Stephans' Root Beer, plus Boston's pubs are a 4 hour drive, just to view you pitifully sloshed---singing.. "I wish I were in the land of cotton...".. rum pot. I'll take a rain check..lol