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Ken Burns Civil War Series - Episode One: The Cause (1861)

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  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 28,708
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    We lost Football to the Confederacy.

    The Big and Pac giving up the Rose Bowl @RaceBannon was as if Pickett's Charge had broken the Union center at Gettysburg.

    More hawt talk to come in the Greatest Battle tournament.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,658
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

  • SECDAWGSECDAWG Member Posts: 5,004
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    We lost Football to the Confederacy.

  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    SECDAWG said:

    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    We lost Football to the Confederacy.

    Objectively speaking, there’s no way around it.
  • RaceBannonRaceBannon Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 100,717
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    We lost Football to the Confederacy.

    The Big and Pac giving up the Rose Bowl @RaceBannon was as if Pickett's Charge had broken the Union center at Gettysburg.

    More hawt talk to come in the Greatest Battle tournament.
    Homework assignment

    History Channel 3pm today

    6 hours of Unconditional Surrender Grant
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,658
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.
    California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.

    There are other metrics besides coin, fren

    You should get east of the wasatch more often.



  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.
    California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.

    There are other metrics besides coin, fren

    You should get east of the wasatch more often.



    The snow in Colorado sucks compared to Utah. No need to. Great quality of life there too except I’m not into armpit sex.

    Sure they are other considerations, but that’s not my point about the Civil War. The North won with more bodies and with more GDP. The south has caught up some but the Union still has more bodies and more GDP.

    I’m sure an argument can be made that TX or FL has a better middle class quality of life than CA, but that’s not where I was going with this.
  • PurpleThrobberPurpleThrobber Member Posts: 41,658
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.
    California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.

    There are other metrics besides coin, fren

    You should get east of the wasatch more often.



    The snow in Colorado sucks compared to Utah. No need to. Great quality of life there too except I’m not into armpit sex.

    Sure they are other considerations, but that’s not my point about the Civil War. The North won with more bodies and with more GDP. The south has caught up some but the Union still has more bodies and more GDP.

    I’m sure an argument can be made that TX or FL has a better middle class quality of life than CA, but that’s not where I was going with this.
    I'm talking present day. Both mindset and lifestyle -and, with the amount of New Yorkers and Californians fleeing, the economic tables will turn soon enough.

    Go spend two months in the south and your perspective will change dramatically.
  • YellowSnowYellowSnow Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 33,796
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.
    California has the sixth largest economy in the world and its gone to shit.

    There are other metrics besides coin, fren

    You should get east of the wasatch more often.



    The snow in Colorado sucks compared to Utah. No need to. Great quality of life there too except I’m not into armpit sex.

    Sure they are other considerations, but that’s not my point about the Civil War. The North won with more bodies and with more GDP. The south has caught up some but the Union still has more bodies and more GDP.

    I’m sure an argument can be made that TX or FL has a better middle class quality of life than CA, but that’s not where I was going with this.
    I'm talking present day. Both mindset and lifestyle -and, with the amount of New Yorkers and Californians fleeing, the economic tables will turn soon enough.

    Go spend two months in the south and your perspective will change dramatically.
    We shall see.

    Alas I’m not a fit recreationally or weather wise for the Souf. Is what it is.
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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    We lost Football to the Confederacy.

    The Big and Pac giving up the Rose Bowl @RaceBannon was as if Pickett's Charge had broken the Union center at Gettysburg.

    More hawt talk to come in the Greatest Battle tournament.
    Homework assignment

    History Channel 3pm today

    6 hours of Unconditional Surrender Grant
    So as it turns out bend Broadband doesn’t have the History channel on its standard package.

    I guess the Ducktards dont care about history.
  • SFGbobSFGbob Member Posts: 31,919
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    edited February 2023

    As today is the anniversary of the Battle of Fort Sumter, I kick off my annual rewatch of the PBS documentary series The Civil War.

    Annnndddddddd roll “Ashokan Farewell”...

    https://youtu.be/uZmxZThb084

    SPOILERS FOLLOW...

    Episode opens with the anecdote about Wilmer McLean and how a cannonball exploded through his fireplace and went into the kitchen of his Virginian farmhouse to kick off the First Battle of Bull Run (ILTCIT because I’m a Northerner). Fast forward several years and the same dude is hosting Lee’s surrender to Grant. “The war began in my front yard and ended in my parlor.” WHAT ARE THE ODDS?

    You briefly are introduced the cast of characters.. heavy hitters with the voice talent: Jason Robards, Morgan Freeman, Center, Jeremy Irons. You also get the first of many interviews with historians like Shelby Foote (raawwwrrrr) and Barbara Fields. Barbara definitely appears ready to rumble.

    Film footage of FDR thanking Civil War vets that fought alongside @RaceBannon at Gettysburg.

    Causes of the conflict are outlined...states' rights, the invention of the cotton gin, John Brown at Harpers Ferry, the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, bleeding Kansas, the firing on Fort Sumter...we didn’t start the fire...it was always burning, since the world’s been turning.

    John C. Calhoun, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, and some Southerners write a bunch of racist crap that nobody asked for.

    Mary Chestnut begins her diary, predicting a “cataclysmic” and quick end to the conflict.

    The episode ends with a heart wrenching letter a Union solider Private Jacob Browning writes home to his wife, Martha, before being killed at Manassas Stadium by a superior Confederate squad, 34-17.

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    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.

    This was key. The bigger population and better infrastructure was an absolute advantage and if not for McClellan, I wonder if the Civil War would have concluded in 1964.

    Has anyone read the Grant Book by Chernow? Ridiculously good. Grant is one of the most notable Americans ever IMHO.
  • pawzpawz Member, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 18,681
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    HFNY said:

    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.

    This was key. The bigger population and better infrastructure was an absolute advantage and if not for McClellan, I wonder if the Civil War would have concluded in 1964.

    Has anyone read the Grant Book by Chernow? Ridiculously good. Grant is one of the most notable Americans ever IMHO.
    I literally finally finished it this week. Really good read. Biased though, I'm a long tim Chernow fan.

    Didn't know a lot about Grant before hand. One of our most underrated Presidents.

    He should have gone to the convention floor to get that 3rd term, IMO.


    For as great a leader as he was, it was amazing how he managed to get burned often in his business dealings.

    One mentally TUFF sob. That's for sure.



    @YellowSnow @HFNY @CFetters_Nacho_Lover @Doog_de_Jour
  • CFetters_Nacho_LoverCFetters_Nacho_Lover Moderator, Swaye's Wigwam Posts: 28,708
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    pawz said:

    HFNY said:

    SECDAWG said:

    Shout out to our Shelby Foote @RaceBannon .

    Fuck off @SECDAWG you treasonous cousin fucker.

    @swaye @whlinder Northern Virginia is for gay lovers and losers.

    Sorry Pod. Minus slavery issues, I fight with my confederate brothers against big gubment.

    As Hank Jr sang:

    https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qxEmry5lRKk

    Just needed more supplies. Could out shoot em 10:1.

    Was a terrible War. Lotta good lives lost and beautiful families and properties destroyed.

    SEC still hasn’t forgot and thus, football.
    The North

    1-0
    The South is the new North

    Uhm yeah, no. The GDP of the union states circa 1865 still dwarfs the CSA states. Both per capita and in absolute terms. Same as it ever was.

    This was key. The bigger population and better infrastructure was an absolute advantage and if not for McClellan, I wonder if the Civil War would have concluded in 1964.

    Has anyone read the Grant Book by Chernow? Ridiculously good. Grant is one of the most notable Americans ever IMHO.
    I literally finally finished it this week. Really good read. Biased though, I'm a long tim Chernow fan.

    Didn't know a lot about Grant before hand. One of our most underrated Presidents.

    He should have gone to the convention floor to get that 3rd term, IMO.


    For as great a leader as he was, it was amazing how he managed to get burned often in his business dealings.

    One mentally TUFF sob. That's for sure.



    @YellowSnow @HFNY @CFetters_Nacho_Lover @Doog_de_Jour
    Thanks Pawz!
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