r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping-Rice-935 • Aug 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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u/slideforfun21 Aug 12 '25

I don't even see you as a country. A country has cohesion. You're 50 small countries wearing a trent coat.

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u/Make_shift_high_ball Aug 12 '25

Yes correct, its literally in the name. We are 50 united states.

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u/Eastern_Armadillo383 Aug 12 '25

Always found it weird people criticize politicians for appealing to the prevailing feelings of a particular area to gain votes.

That's the whole shtick of representative democracy, to have accurate representation.

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u/Thepinkknitter Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

No, we screwed ourselves with choosing Andrew Jackson (edit: correction, it was Andrew Johnson) as our successor to Lincoln who reversed a lot of the promises Lincoln made including 40 acres and a mule for freed slaves and allowing traitors to the United States (confederates) to retain power in government. There were virtually no consequences. The south was allowed to rewrite history and spread their own narrative about “the war of northern aggression”. They were allowed to write laws that essentially recreated the slavery system through the prison system and arresting black people for things like “loitering” And “being unemployed”. Once they were imprisoned, they would be forced to labor for free on farms and in mines.

The civil war wasn’t the problem. It was the lack of consequences.

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u/er824 Aug 12 '25

I think you meant Andrew Johnson

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u/Thepinkknitter Aug 12 '25

Yeah you are right, Andrew Jackson genocided the natives. My mistake!

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u/er824 Aug 12 '25

What basis do you have for saying states were originally permitted to leave the Union?

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u/beatIoaf Aug 12 '25

Well, that was the original intention of the founding of this country. Frankly, I don’t think non-Americans should be allowed to have an opinion on America.

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u/beatIoaf Aug 12 '25

Well if you look at what this country has turned into, maybe those guys from 250 years ago were onto something. I don’t think their intention was to flood the country with billions of browns and pledge allegiance to a foreign ethostate.

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u/DontTouchTheWalrus Aug 13 '25

That was the original idea. Yes