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(True to form, you frame this sort of political sabotage as exclusively within the GOP bag of dirty tricks)

No such claim made.

This is becoming a familiar refrain from the resident master of insinuation and implication.

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she not only a professional internet troll but a warrior of the Alt-Right (and, in fact, a very terrible person)

I did not say Lash was/is a professional troll.

Of course not, and you, reliably, take refuge in what you didn't precisely say. (See above) In any case, it's nice that you're not accusing her of being a political whore...just a racist, neo-Nazi gremlin who is devoted to disinformation for personal gratification.


But I do expect she is linked with others doing similar work.

Ahhh... I see. At least she's not doing it for money - right?

"Terrible person"? No. Just a liar with political ideas/aims I find morally repugnant. I might have this wrong but Occam's razor suggests I don't.

The ever cute blatham.

I on the other hand have come to realize that you are a terrible person. You have attempted, rather pathetically, to defame a member in this forum as a means of striking out at one of the few left-wingers on A2K who not only refuses to acknowledge you as their spiritual leader, but regularly calls you out on your propagandizing. I imagine you are also trying to rally your followers like emmett/bobsal and izzy (and the novitiate Setanta) who have already gone on record with this preposterous calumny.

For someone who revels in the simplistic, you have an interesting view of what might be the simplest of explanations.

I think to most honest people the simplest explanation for Lash's posts is that they are an expression of her essentially libertarian world view. She may, in fact, be one of the few professed socialists in this country who actually gives a damn about individual freedoms. In time, I expect that she will find that her devotion to liberty and inherent distrust of the State is irreconcilable with her newly developed infatuation with socialism, but she also may be the only person in this forum who displays a mind that is wide open to alternative views and more than willing to reassess established opinions.

Your application of Occam's Razor is laughable.

You would have us believe that the simplest explanation is that Lash, who for years presented in A2K as essentially a moderate conservative, became convinced that she could fool everyone with a fanciful tale that her disgust with the ruling Establishment encompassing both parties led her to see an old 50's era commie-lite as America's last best hope, and volunteered to become an operative of the GOP, Movement Conservatism, David Duke, or the Koch Brothers (Or maybe the Russians!). She then embarked on a pro bono effort; with the assistance of a network of fellow right-wing propagandists, in an effort to demoralize and divide Democrats across the land; focusing her attention on an obscure little internet discussion forum where the liberals have all become enthralled by a progressive prophet in Canada. Gosh, how could anyone not see that?

I never gave it much thought before, but it now seems quite probable that paranoid schizophrenics who rant about the Frankenstein radio air waves that are transmitted by the Trilateral Commission from an outpost in Butte Montana, and enter their anuses to embark on a journey to their brains with the intent of seizing control of it...is their simplest explanation for the voices in their heads.

In any case, it's nice that you're not accusing Lash of being a political whore...just a racist, neo-Nazi gremlin who is devoted to disinformation for personal gratification.

But I do expect lash is linked with others doing similar work.

The constitution is, and was, a contract, a compact, if you will, among sovereign states.

If I agreed to buy your car for $5,000, but you later refused to give me the title or the keys to it, you're just the kind who would insist that I had agreed to give you $5,000 and must do it, eh?

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That was the reason [slavery] why the south fought the war. But the fact remains, most southerners today view the flag as symbol of pride in southern culture, and of resistance against leftists who sneer and demean southern culture.

The fact that leftists respond to the flag by sneering and demeaning southern culture even more only reinforces the flag's symbolism as resistance to anti-south bigotry.

It is actually quite reasonable for southerners to use confederate flags as a symbol of southern pride. Local regions around the world often use the flag of a past era when that region was politically independent as a modern symbol of regional pride. It's the same reason why Texans fly the flag of the Republic of Texas.

So, what do you make of your march in Charlottesville, victim?

Actually, the Southerners who fly the Confederate or Virginia Battle Flag are celebrating nothing but their wish that the South had won the Civil War and slavery was never gotten rid of.

You just blurt out your emotions, assert them as obvious truths which require no rational explanation or justification, and go on your smug, merry way, satisfied that your mere assertion has proven you right.

It is conceivable that there might be some well-meaning southerners who buy the hype that the flag stands for the South's contribution to the country as a whole, without relating it to a put down of civil rights for all, but they are being deluded.

Ask any cheese-eater what a confederate flag or statue of Robert E. Lee "stands for," and they will quickly tell you that it stands for only one thing: Racism and Slavery.

Ask a typical southerner what it "stands for" and they will tell you it symbolizes the courage, selfless sacrifice, and determination to resist oppression of their honored ancestors, of whom they are rightly proud.

The cheese-eaters will not accept this. Something can only mean what THEY tell you it means.

I often get down to Richmond onto Monument avenue where they've got statues of Lee, George Washington, Jeff Davis, Matthew Maury, and ARTHUR ASHE. Wonder how these statues will be handled??

"When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him."

Leave it to a full-blown cheese-eater to claim that Lee is not worthy of a statue, but Arthur Ashe is, eh?

The claim that these public chochkies represent "SOuthern heritage" is an unfortunate linkage especially when that heritage is heavily based upon an assumption that the institution of slavery was a sworn duty of those who claim these symbols as sacred.

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No Southern State had to "fight" for the right to own slaves. They already had that right. The problem was that their rights were being trampled on by the northern states.

At the end of the civil war, slavery was legal under BOTH the confederate flag AND the stars and stripes. Several slave-holding States actually took up Lincoln on his offer, made in the Emancipation Proclamation, to cease fighting the Union, and, likewise, he made good on his promise to allow them to continue as slave states.

Things changed after that for all states, not just for the confederacy. The confederate flag was no longer "valid" after 1865, but the constitutional right to own slaves was STILL the law of the land, under the American flag.

So why is one a symbol of slavery (and nothing else) and the other not?

That question is not for you, Blicky, because no one expects you to some up with any kind of rational argument about anything. You just blurt out your emotions, assert them as obvious truths which require no rational explanation or justification, and go on your smug, merry way, satisfied that your mere assertion has proven you right.

However, some other cheese-eater may want to take a stab at answering it, eh?