America's Attack on the Lemonade Stand

[Amaris]

Anyhoo, to stay on topic...or at least in the same general area according to ninjacore, black people should have to wait 50 years to be free of slavery and oppression by the government, but she should have the right to carry a gun wherever she wants, and she wants that liberty to stay available right now, instead of waiting.

Kind of a moot point, since she's not old enough to buy a gun.

Maybe Daddy buys them for her.

I'm sure she'd be okay with another 50 years of slavery if it meant her getting her right to buy a gun a few years sooner. According to her posts, no black person's rights are too disposable as long as she gets what she wants when she wants it.

Also, I contest the 50 years estimate.

The only reason emancipation happened when it did was because the the necessary conditions were met--which was no small feat. Had things otherwise gone along as is, it would have probably been up to (or even through) the Second World War and probably not until the 60s. In other words, the civil rights movement would have been the "free the slaves" movement. In that case, it's an entire century.

The fact that there is currently a fringe movement to return to indentured servitude (a happy-go-lucky name for slavery) speaks volumes. Yes it's fringe, but the fringe is getting bigger.

50 years. 100 years. Doesn't matter as long as she gets that badass steel.

 

[RoJoHen]

It is very rare that I show up to a 29-page thread and read the whole thing from start to finish. Kudos, everyone. I am very entertained...and very disturbed.

 

[CorporalClegg]

It's far better than you think it would be. Give it a try, all the episodes are on youtube.

I tried the first 10 minutes of the pilot and was drowned in a deluge of Tara Strong. Now I HAVE to watch.

Sexiest. Voice. Ever.

 

[Awesome Possum]

I don't know if womenfolk should have guns, their husbands will protect them from the injins. After all, it says all "men" are created equal. Although some are more equal than others of course.

 

[Captain Ice]

^You forgot to mention that the only people who should be allowed to vote are White Anglo-Saxon Males.

 

[iguana_tonante]

Did he swear by his pretty floral bonnet?

The battle's done and we kinda won.

So we sound our victory cheers?

 

[RJDiogenes]

niggling

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Also, I contest the 50 years estimate.

The only reason emancipation happened when it did was because the the necessary conditions were met--which was no small feat. Had things otherwise gone along as is, it would have probably been up to (or even through) the Second World War and probably not until the 60s. In other words, the civil rights movement would have been the "free the slaves" movement. In that case, it's an entire century.

The fact that there is currently a fringe movement to return to indentured servitude (a happy-go-lucky name for slavery) speaks volumes. Yes it's fringe, but the fringe is getting bigger.

The very fact that the Civil Rights movement was necessary demonstrates that the Civil War did not solve the underlying problems. Some kind of Civil War was probably inevitable.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

niggling

This kind of language is not acceptable at TrekBBS. Warnings will follow if this kind of behavior continues.

RJ, it's not a racial slur, and he used it in the proper context:

nig·gling (nglng)
adj.
1. Petty, especially in a nagging or annoying way; trifling: a pointless dispute over niggling details.
2. Overly concerned with details; exacting and fussy.

 

[Squiggy]

This thread just gets better and better.

 

[SPCTRE]

Abe Lincoln was truly America's first superhero.

He is the leader of the Lincoln Force, a time-travelling group of elite mercenaries who fight to free humanity from the oppressive helicopters who have enslaved them.

My source is completely reliable.

I also didn't quote the article out of context.

[ http://www.giantbomb.com/abraham-lincoln/94-3731/ ]

 

[Sephiroth]

no, no no, Lincoln was a Vampire hunter, Teddy Roosevelt was the time-traveling bad-ass, and it wasn't helicopters he was single handedly destroying with his pure badassery, it was mother-fucking death stars

 

[Squiggy]

And Jefferson beat the shit out of gorillas.

 

[SPCTRE]

no, no no, Lincoln was a Vampire hunter, Teddy Roosevelt was the time-traveling bad-ass

Well, good sir, how then do you explain that I am in the possession of a fucking T-shirt that says otherwise?

I rest my case.

 

[RoJoHen]

The battle's done and we kinda won.

So we sound our victory cheers?

Where do we go from here?!

 

[Ninjacore]

The battle's done and we kinda won.

So we sound our victory cheers?

Where do we go from here?!

You didn't win, you spammed the thread tillit wasn't worth responding, not the same at all.

 

[RoJoHen]

Somebody needs to watch more Joss Whedon shows.

 

[doubleohfive]

"Get out! Get out get out GET OUT!"

 

[RoJoHen]

"Get out! Get out get out GET OUT!"

Really? We're quoting Dawn now?

 

[doubleohfive]

Why not? Would you prefer a pony-themed thread bomb?

 

[iguana_tonante]

Bugger this. You should go back inside. Finish the big group sing, get your kumbyayas out. The day you suss out what you do want, there'll probably be a parade. Seventy-six bloody trombones.