"The United States are going to war."

So would that make Lincoln the original grammar nazi?

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Right? How dare he make you pay your laborers! What an a-hole.

Trey Anastasio... History buff extraordinaire

The grammatical difference really signifies how Lincoln shifted the way our country is set up. And how we view it as citizens. The simplest of grammatical changes is so powerfully indicative of how our nation's entire identity and structure has changed.


It used to actually make a difference what state you were from, aside from property taxes. Now it's all just one big bland country and states don't mean shite.

Well seeing as each state was it's own entity (country) that was grammatically correct. I wish that had never changed but that is a whole other discussion

Lincoln gets a thumbs up for preserving the Union, the North winning the war, and ending slavery.

He gets a thumbs down for insane breaches of power, castrating the states (all states, not just southern states), and centralizing all power at the federal level. He turned the Union into something it was never meant to be, and permanently and fundamentally fricked up the balance of power. Our federal government has been shitting all over its own damn Constitution every single day since Lincoln.

So why did he wait two years into the war to free the slaves? Slavery was a horrible blight on our history but that does not change the narrative: Lincoln only freed the slaves as an act of war not out of benevolence.

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But the fricking war was about slavery, and Lincoln won the war.

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Of course it was, but only because paranoid southerners made it that way.

My only point is that Lincoln shouldn't be regarded as the patriot of civil rights as he is when he wouldn't have done anything regarding slavery until it became a useful war tactic, and being that he in fact was a racist who wanted to ship all the slaves back to Africa.

They see the colonel next to our name and start assuming all sorts of things.