"Reboots" and "Sequels" - and biopic

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TPRJones wrote:Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
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Leisher wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
And after the next disaster they'll then be referred to as "resources to be used."

Because most yankees will get eaten because they are soft.
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Right. Until the first 2-inch snowfall brings all your southern transit and traffic to a grinding halt.
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Leisher wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "whiners".
Fixed.
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TheCatt wrote:
Leisher wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.

You misspelled "whiners".

Fixed.

At least the Union didn't kill off the best general they had with friendly fire. Furthermore, at no time did any Union commander-in-chief say, "Hey, you know what'll swing this war our way? A balls out charge uphill into a position fortified with artilley."




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Yeah, losing Jackson may have lost the war.

That and wrapping your cigars in your battle plans, then losing your cigars.
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Eh, it hurt most definitely but was only one nail in a well-sealed coffin.

1) The South had better generals. It also had the fewer miles of railroad track and less industrial capacity.
2) The Confederacy could charitably be called "inefficient" when it came to matters between their members.
3) This.

I'd say #3 had the the largest effect, followed by #2.
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GORDON wrote:
Leisher wrote:
TPRJones wrote:Not that it really matters, it's all just yankees anyway.
You misspelled "winners".
And after the next disaster they'll then be referred to as "resources to be used."

Because most yankees will get eaten because they are soft.
Says the guy posting pictures of himself and his kitty in bed.
Right. Until the first 2-inch snowfall brings all your southern transit and traffic to a grinding halt.


Exactly.

Fixed.


When the Onion posts stories mocking Northerners for always talking about how someday "we'll rise again", then your "correction" will make sense.
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Malcolm wrote:Eh, it hurt most definitely but was only one nail in a well-sealed coffin.

1) The South had better generals. It also had the fewer miles of railroad track and less industrial capacity.
2) The Confederacy could charitably be called "inefficient" when it came to matters between their members.
3) This.

I'd say #3 had the the largest effect, followed by #2.
Lee only managed two forays into the north, and both of them were fucked by bad luck. It could be argued that if an entire battle plan could be unraveled by pulling on two different strings you're already fucked, but whatev. If the Confederacy had some time to really rampage around the North, Sherman-style, who knows how things may have been different.

The South was morally correct, though.
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Lee only managed two forays into the north, and both of them were fucked by bad luck.

If "bad luck" is how southerners say "stubborn, short-sighted, and only skilled in a certain style of defensive warfare as opposed to, you know, going on the offensive and taking goddamned enemy territory" then I agree. The longer than war went on, the worse off he was going to get. He neglected to press his advantage during the crucial early parts of the war when the Union was throwing overrated, primadonna, diva pussies like McClellan in charge. They eventually found an alcoholic who, while not being a military genius, was at least competent enough in practice to play to his advantages.

If the Confederacy had some time to really rampage around the North, Sherman-style

If I had a magic carpet, I wouldn't spend so much time in traffic. That's still better odds than the CSA had at making a serious incursion into the Union after July 3, 1863, when Lee pulled a Roy "Wrong Way" Riegels and decided to help the north not just inflict more casualties upon his ranks, but utterly annihilate any hope for a result other than Confederate capitulation.

The South was morally correct, though.

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On the other hand, Iced Earth's Gettysburg Trilogy kicks all manner of ass.

Give yourself the full 30 minutes with a surround sound system and enjoy.

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