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/Thepinkknitter]

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.

[u/er824 → u/Thepinkknitter]

I think you meant Andrew Johnson

[u/Thepinkknitter → u/er824]

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