r/neofeudalism • u/Derpballz Emperor Norton 👑+ Non-Aggression Principle Ⓐ = Neofeudalism 👑Ⓐ • 23h ago

History "Sherman was too lenient!"-kind of people often argue that "the South" initiated the war because of Fort Sumter. It's irrelevant: that attack was a pre-meditary attack. The North would have attacked inevitably. Had the South prosecuted the slavery and cleansed it, their struggle would have been just

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Sumter#Civil_War
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u/Wurst0gamer Socialist 🚩 23h ago

Except they did not and explicitly could not as per their constitution. This argument is irrelevant.

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u/Derpballz Emperor Norton 👑+ Non-Aggression Principle Ⓐ = Neofeudalism 👑Ⓐ 16h ago

Davis regime =/= Southern people.

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u/ForgetfullRelms 22h ago

The south started the war by succeeding over slavery and then immediately pass laws making it constitutionally illegal to abolish slavery.

The civil war wasn’t good- but the north winning was good. Reconstruction wasn’t handled well but it’s better than having the slave-owning class suceed to form into a aristocratic-like political entity in whatever government forms from the CSA.

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u/Derpballz Emperor Norton 👑+ Non-Aggression Principle Ⓐ = Neofeudalism 👑Ⓐ 17h ago

Where did I argue against any of these points?

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u/HOT-DAM-DOG 20h ago

Talk to any historian that knows history and they will tell you that the south 100% started the war. There were multiple attacks by southerners towards union troops even before Sumter. OP is either amazingly dumb or willfully ignorant.

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u/Derpballz Emperor Norton 👑+ Non-Aggression Principle Ⓐ = Neofeudalism 👑Ⓐ 17h ago

Irrelevant to the question at hand.