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@ThaTruthiest another way to think about this is that there were live compromises in 1860 and 1861 that would have prevented war and preserved the union. lincoln rejected them for a reason, and that is, they would have enshrined slavery in the constitution. — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThaTruthiest after union victory at antietam, lincoln would draft the emancipation proclamation and issue it at the start of 1863. which is to say that lincoln was maintaining the pretense that this war would not touch slavery up and until he had the political space to say otherwise — PolitiTweet.org

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@ThaTruthiest the thing you have to remember is that the letter from which this narrative is drawn, to horace greeley in 1862, was written when the union was losing the war. it was part of a political effort to maintain support for the war effort. — PolitiTweet.org

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lincoln was not a saint but one thing you can say is he was a vociferous opponent of slavery with a deep-seated hatred of the institution. you can't really understand his political trajectory without this basic fact in mind. — PolitiTweet.org

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lincoln spent his early years on the national stage essentially warning that the united states was in the grip of a conspiracy to extend slavery across the entire nation & that americans had a duty to reject those institutions (like the supreme court) that would try to advance it — PolitiTweet.org

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there is a reason why the planter elite lost their minds when this guy got elected. he routinely said stuff like this: "To meet and overthrow the power of [slave power], is the work now before all those who would prevent that consummation." — PolitiTweet.org

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if anything this was a speech about heightening the contradictions https://t.co/psrbCqc9Ym — PolitiTweet.org

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also, and i will scream this until i lose my voice, lincoln's "house divided" speech WAS NOT ABOUT CIVILITY — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @AdamSerwer: Just a reminder that there’s an entire coterie of people whose job is to lie to you (and maybe even themselves) about the S… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Andresdq21: It’s wild to me that there are only 62 units being developed in San Francisco so far for 2022. D.C., which has a similar po… — PolitiTweet.org

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@edburmila @akela_lacy i guess my point is there is a way to rebut this that doesn’t involve recapitulating the attack — PolitiTweet.org

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@ryanlcooper gottheimer et al have successfully torpedoed a democratic presidency and when they lose because of it they’ll blame the left, like clockwork — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanlcooper: change the subject you morons — PolitiTweet.org

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@cliffnuttman @akela_lacy oh wow you got me, i certainly have never thought at all about what a focus group might say — PolitiTweet.org

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@Atrios they refuse to talk about literally anything else, it is mindblowing — PolitiTweet.org

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@vomsAKAtito they may not have had to do this if they didn’t spend nearly two years complaining about it — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @espinsegall: Good morning. There is no federal equal protection clause, anti-commandeering rule, or qualified immunity in the Constitut… — PolitiTweet.org

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it is absolutely wild to watch these democrats do everything they can to lodge “defund” into the minds of voters while complaining that voters associate them with “defund.” the call is coming from inside the house, my dudes — PolitiTweet.org

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@akela_lacy once again the only people at this point reminding voters about defund is centrist democrats — PolitiTweet.org

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@jaywillis you know people keep writing detailed arguments for court expansion and it is very annoying that folks just pretend like they don’t exist — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @donmoyn: It’s important to remember that the elites are the professors and journalists, not the people toasting their coup efforts with… — PolitiTweet.org

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“Howard and others understood that slavery had denied enslaved people familial rights and control over their reproductive choices.”https://t.co/Kvzqw6D5Hl — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @soc4austin: For all the love that Paris is rightly getting for the pandemic transition away from cars, I am shocked that we are seeing… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @InternetHippo: New big brain thing on this app is sneering at people for talking about the news https://t.co/OPB7ZlYGZp — PolitiTweet.org

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This has been a real tragedy and the family could use all the help you can give. https://t.co/0oFVvdP56f — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanlcooper: people just can't get it through their brains that it's the Dems' right wing that is the recalcitrant, muleheaded, no-comp… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ryanlcooper: Conor's right. conservative Democrats who killed Biden's popular compromise agenda are de facto collaborating with Republi… — PolitiTweet.org

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@isaiah_bb @pareene yep. also i should probably delete my tweet before it lands me in hot water — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @witchofwaxhaw: I want a baby so we can do things together https://t.co/CVQIhYAF3l — PolitiTweet.org

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@pareene has thoughts on which people are Authentically from the South as well — PolitiTweet.org