Zexks

Just gonna ignore that blue mark huh. Or do you not know what that means

Yeah and what exactly has anyone from your country done for the world at all. Nothing you sit back and spend you entire history jumping from one ruler to another fighting civil war after civil war. Barely even able to call yourself a state if it wasnt for everyone else supporting you. Lets see how well you do the next time algeria decides your nothing and no one wants to give you any support. Mice that sit in the corner incapable of doing anything relrvant should sit back and let the adults talk.

And theyre still running rampant and killing us citizens. Hows that armed resistence working out for you.

Uhh the middle east has been fucked for centuries. Nothing thats happening will change any of that.

They said......on twitter/X ... with a blue check...

I find it funny that none of the ml shit stains always bitching about genocide havent even touched this thread...

I think the “the U.S. didn’t punish the Confederacy enough” argument misses a structural piece of the puzzle.

Whether Reconstruction was too lenient or too harsh, the deeper issue is that our electoral system (first-past-the-post, single-member districts, winner-take-all) structurally favors ideological cohesion and intensity over breadth and compromise.

In a first-past-the-post system:

You can only pick one option.

Minorities with high motivation outperform majorities with lower cohesion.

Broad coalitions have to cover far more policy ground than intense factions do.

Turnout advantages go to the side that feels existentially threatened.

That creates what I’d call a ratchet toward polarization. The system doesn’t mathematically guarantee extremism, but it systematically biases toward it. The “policy surface area” of the broader coalition becomes a liability, while the more ideologically concentrated side benefits from cohesion and turnout energy.

So when we look at post–Civil War politics, the question might not just be “Was the Confederacy punished enough?” It might be:

Would any punishment regime have prevented future sectional radicalization inside a winner-take-all electoral structure?

If the underlying incentive system rewards intense minority mobilization, then over time you’ll tend to see:

Polarized regional blocks

Identity consolidation

Historical grievance becoming political fuel

That’s not unique to Reconstruction. It’s a recurring dynamic in FPTP systems.

I’m not saying punishment was irrelevant. I’m saying institutional incentives matter more in the long run than the severity of any single political settlement.

If you want to reduce extremist drift, you don’t just change policy outcomes — you change incentive structures (ranked-choice, multi-member districts, proportional systems, etc.). Otherwise the same polarization dynamics reappear under new banners.

There is no cure for rabies...

There is more to the world than israel and palestine

Yeah well none of that is going to happen and even more people will suffer beyond palestinians. But fuck them right. Cause the only ones that matter are palestinians