• MagicShel@programming.dev
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    9 months ago

    Negotiate? He’s suggesting things would’ve gone better if we’d agreed to mostly keep slavery but soften it a little in exchange for concessions? Well, that’s horrifying.

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      9 months ago

      That precise negotiation is how we got the civil war, as well as a number of other completely busted, antidemocratic US institutions like the Senate. Making compromises with slavers.

    • kent_eh@lemmy.ca
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      9 months ago

      Hard to know with Trump.

      His usual way of “negotiating” is to demand what he wants is the limit, while demanding that the other party capitulate to whatever is best for Trump.