Yeah that makes a lot of sense on this new page... seriously all my drug dealers are white guys with cheesy circuit-bent toys in their heads.

If the drug dealer is a "meth dealer" There may not be space for both a full size TR-808 and an internal power supply. So you may end up having to use a external "Wall Wart" power supply.But I am sure a unit like that would put a big pillow of sound with a solid bottom

Civil War hero:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Tecumseh\_Sherman#Total\_warfare

unsaved wrote:Civil War hero:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Tecumseh\_Sherman#Total\_warfareAnd in that vein: Gary Brecher, the War Nerdhttp://pando.com/2015/04/10/war-nerd-th ... en-hanged/http://pando.com/2014/11/20/the-war-ner ... n-atlanta/-r

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unsaved wrote:Civil War hero:https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William\_Tecumseh\_Sherman#Total\_warfareI often refer to Athens,GA as Sherman's oversight,

Steve V. wrote:Maybe they have pride in the courage it took their ancestors to stand up to a force they saw as oppressive by what they felt was inconsiderate governing. Whether it was right or wrong depends from person-to-person.And herein lies the problem. Taking pride in fighting for something that is by any measure morally reprehensible requires a lot of fancy footwork to get around the cognitive dissonance. This is like saying something is a matter of opinion when it is a matter of fact.The Civil War wasn't about states' rights generally, it was about one specific states' right: that of owning other human beings. Pretending that it was about anything else or trying to deflect that basic fundamental fact in order to celebrate some minutia about your auntie's cousin-in-law's grandfather who was a brave man is like pointing out that Hitler had some good ideas. It's true, but it sorta ignores the larger point casting a shadow over it.Don't get me wrong - I understand that painting the Civil War as Good vs Evil is dishonest and inaccurate. It was mostly evil in it's execution by both sides, because it was a war. I don't think anyone comes out of something so brutal and destructive looking anything but horrible. But it was not fought over nothing, and that matters.

numberthirty wrote:Also, look up "Town Line, New York".Gramsci talks about the year 2015 in the southern United States. numberthirty talks about 1861 in the North. I don not expect him to understand how these two things are not even remotely the same.

Steve V. wrote:jimmy two hands wrote:Gramsci wrote:And WTF is with all the Confederate Flags?!?!? "As a foreigner" what I don't get is that surely it should be regarded as treason to fly one of those right? They fucking lost a Civil WarThe South has a lot of whiney loser babies who are still pissed 150 years after the fact that they are no longer allowed to own human beings. And America in general, north and south, has a bunch of assholes who like to fly the treason flag to show their support of a racial caste system.Could also be that a Southerner is proud to have come from a bloodline that dealt with a complete savaging on behalf of Union troops and rebuilt their economy/society while also contributing to the American arts canon.The southern United States did not rise, and even today, does not survive by its own hand. It has never really learned to exist and be self-sustaining without that olde-tyme subsidy of slaved, human labor. The largest welfare states (states that receive more money from the federal government than they pay to it), exist in the South. This fits the trend. In its politics, we can see a habit that veers toward serfdom. For all it's posturing as a "rebel" stronghold, time, and time again, we see Southern culture pay fealty to wealth and power.

numberthirty wrote:blackmarket wrote:I don't think anyone really cares. The institutions these men were fighting to uphold no doubt paled in comparison to what was going on in those camps. Perhaps getting a taste of one's own medicine?War Crimes? Nah...Look at what they were fighting for. We can do whatever we want to them. Totally fine.I wouldn't personally say it is totally fine. Others might. War crimes are terrible. But we have to prioritize. For myself this ranks pretty low on my List of Things to Care About.