• gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    But they didn’t just go to war to stop it, they burned the south to the ground.

    Do that to CA and you’re shooting yourself in the foot as the US

    Destroying your most important ports and where more than 50% of your agriculture nationwide comes from is not a good idea

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
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      Which is exactly why they would burn it to the ground. The federal government would never let California, let alone any state, secede peacfully. They can’t risk losing those resources and would destroy them before allowing them to be competition.

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          Climate change = mismanagement on the part of pretty much the whole world. So technically correct.

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          Question: what things were done in the 80’s to prep for wildfires? Do they do any of those things today?

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              I was alive in the 80s, I definitely know what I’m talking about. If you can’t answer the question though, then you obviously do not.

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                That’s cute of you, but I can answer the question

                That’s why I know you don’t actually know, because your implication that the way things were done in the 80s was perfect and correct and should still be done is wrong, we’ve learned, and so shit differently now using more modern understandings and tech

                But you’re an idiot conservative who thinks how things were done when you were young is still exactly the only correct way it seems, so fuck off

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        Was it really? I was under the impression that they mostly were agricultural, while the north had all the light and heavy industries… (sorry, I’m not american)

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          You are correct. It heavily contributed to their loss. Without international support, or the industries to leverage that support they were isolated, poor and out of manpower.

          If Union leadership was better in the beginning we would have seen them rolled much faster.

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          This was RIGHT before the industrial revolution in America. The timing of industrialization going north because the south was utterly burned to the ground was a massive shock that is still felt today. They couldn’t switch to industrialization in time

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        A huge reason the south lost was because they were NOT an economic powerhouse…

        Much like today.