US invades in 1850s, Cuba secedes with a victorious Confederacy, actual Cubans rebel against Anglo rule in the 1880s and establish a native republic in the highlands where the Confederate army can't reach. Boom. Landlocked.
So it's necessary to give context to the DoI, but an actual fucking speech giving actual fucking context to the secession of the south doesn't count? Bish...
So that makes it okay that legally slaves were livestock unless their masters wanted to fuck them?
Jesus motherfucking Christ on a crystal meth binge, man, you've gone from "Lost Cause doesn't real" to "slavery wasn't that bad"
Jesus motherfucking Meinertzhagen's Haversack H Lothario Percival...
What the actual fuck kind of "hey, look, over there" kind of misdirection cunt argument was that?
"Yes, Auschwitz was bad, but hey, Schindler actually saved Jews, and can we talk about the Katyn Massacre instead?"
That's basically your argument.
They had equal representation. In the Senate. In the house representation was done according to population. A state with fewer people is not entitled to equal representation in the house. That's how the Constitution works, as any seventh grade can tell you.
Have a much more aggressive and less competent President push Maryland and Kentucky into the arms of the CSA, and have a much more competent anti-war movement. John C Fremont might be a good fit for the job.