Relax, Mr. Featherston. Your position as one of the forum's best ACW experts
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Snake has yet to list a
single number of
any type. You would think he'd never heard the word 'statistics' before. He has built up a funny little narrative grounded in NO actual evidence except for broad generalizations about the history of the period and you people seem to be intent on pretending that makes him an expert.
This is absolutely sick. Are you people 12? Have you finished high school yet?
I would abandon this topic, but it seems like future discussions about the Civil War period are going to be colored by the outcome here so I just want to get this absolutely, positively straight: Snake does not know a damned thing about the Civil War. I'd be willing to be he hasn't graduated college yet, let alone received a degree in the field like some of the people I've seen him argue against.
I may dislike 67th Tiger, I may KNOW he has a habit of being dishonest, of fudging numbers and outright mis-citing them.
But at least he has had numbers to fudge. He's ten times the Civil War 'expert' Snake could ever be. I would take his word over Snake's any day,
even though I would 90% sure he was lying.
This whole thing is one, big, fat joke. Pretending you're being reasonable is not rationality. Logic, reason,
the actual discipline of history, is based in evidence a little more nuanced and deep than just asserting that somebody said something somewhere. Like I said earlier, talk is cheap. I want numbers. I want evidence that there would be the votes to deprive millions of men of their hard won votes a decade or more after they won them, especially after they've fought a war for their independence and freedom.
Truth is everything that Snake believes about the Civil War, about the contemporary North and South, smells, no,
reeks of bullshit he believes because he buys into the variant of the Just World fallacy known as Whiggish history: Evil people only ever do evil things, in a very incompetent ways, and history always shits on them from great heights. Everything in our history was an inevitable, glorious path towards building what we have today. Blah blah blah etc etc jesus christ do I really have to do this.
Read a fucking book.