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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by Asparagirl on Friday January 08, 2021 @08:36PM (#25694828)
Half of the US fought for the right to own other humans as property. You are very, very sheltered if you think large numbers of people aren't capable of holding terrible ideas and performing horrific acts.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by jessaustin on Friday January 08, 2021 @09:59PM (#25695874)
The CSA was certainly not half of the United States at that time. They inflated their numbers with the "3/5 compromise". Even with that method of inflating their representation, 11 states with 66 House Representatives seceded, while 23 states with 173 House Representatives did not secede. It wasn't close to half.

On top of which, the decision process for secession was (shockingly, I know!) not democratic in the least. The Union didn't need a "Home Guard" to enforce conscription, but the South did.

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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by macinjosh on Friday January 08, 2021 @10:08PM (#25695987)
You are very, very sheltered to believe this situation is even close to what happened in the civil war.
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Re:Apple has threatened to ban Parler from the App Store by quadrangle on Saturday January 09, 2021 @01:10PM (#25702806)
I suggest we call it what it was and say the "slavery war" instead of the "civil war" (civil war is generic and even the American Revolution was a civil war)
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