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In March 2025, in the thread "Re: OT, out", Umm asked the members: "Do you think it is because America is made up of magical soil that makes businesses based in America magically profitable?" This week it is put to everyone again. The button below opens the small thread re-asking it - read what others have said so far, then give your own answer as an ordinary reply.
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Author: Dope1 ⎊  😊 😞
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Subject: Re: 18 USC 241 Intent
Date: 08/08/23 12:13 PM
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Dope, you're on the dopey side with your resentments. It was because the Republicans who were saying that Democrats were the racist partyand pointing out that the Republicans were the party of Lincoln and the racist South was the Democrats, which was true. Y'all were sitting back there snickering and laughing while you plastered it all over the internet, and we had to learn about the Southern Strategy - because then Southern racists switched parties.

Who's been posting "resentments" this entire thread? Not me.
It was the democrat party that started (and lost) the Civil War.
Then it was the democrat party that ruined Reconstruction and ushered in anti-black laws all over the South.
democrat President Woodrow Wilson forciby re-segregated the government (after Republican Teddy Roosevelt integrated) and hosted the kkk movie Birth of a Nation in the White House.
JFK would appoint racist judges in the south to ensure survival of Jim Crow laws.

And then of course we have the famous LBJ quote of "I'll have <them> voting democrat for 200 years".

So yeah, there's far more history and fact behind the charge that the Republicans are the racist party. In fact, the quote you've been using the entire thread has been taken 180 degrees out of context.

So now you want to tell us to get over it?

I'm not asking you to do anything. You're operating off a bad set of facts fueled by the liberal media.

What I'm asking you to understand history from a factual basis and take a look at the assumptions you're making.
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