re: Who loves the Georgia Bulldogs more than the USA?

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Your analogy is absurd.

Who fired the first shots in the Civil War?

That is your answer as to who was the aggressor.

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Do you even know what Fort Sumter was?

It was a federal Customs house. There was no income tax yet back then, (Lincoln was the first to install that evil shite, btw) so in order to fund itself, the federal government had to confiscate revenue from the people of the states by collecting tariffs and duties on their imports at their ports.

So, when South Carolina left the U.S. and joined a new confederacy, what you had was a foreign government (ie the United States government) keeping a tax-collecting depot on another country’s soil actively trying to extort money from any ship entering this other country’s harbor.

This is an act of aggression, shithead. An act of war.

If the Chinese sailed to Boston harbor today and started collecting fees from any ship entering the port, the U.S. government would fire on them in a heartbeat. And justifiably so.

Beyond that, the Confederates tried diligently to work with the feds to peacefully come up with ways to re-imburse them for forts, customs houses, military installations still on confederate soil, including Ft. Sumter. But Lincoln refused to meet with Southern diplomats to discuss the subject. He claimed the Southern states were still his. And that he had a right to collect taxes from them.

Also, let’s not forget that not a single person was killed during the firing on Ft. Sumter. And that they were warned to abandon the fort for weeks leading up to it.


Honestly, I am ashamed that people like you live on Georgia soil.