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In retrospect I’d like to now declare this the funniest fucking Tweet of all time
Idk why this is on my mind right now but it's something that just occurred to me while I was driving home today (TL;DR at the end):
I think a major problem with the way we learn about the Civil War is that it unwittingly paves the way for misconceptions and misinterpretations of the conflict between the North and the South, and that allows us as laypeople to undermine the gravity therein.
The most notable example being the fact that we call it the "Civil" War. Civil wars are defined as wars "between organized groups within the same state or country." In other words, for the American Civil War to actually qualify as a civil war, it would have had to been a conflict between two groups within the United States of America.
And if you've made it this far into the text you're probably thinking to yourself, "Uh yeah, Rubén, everybody knows that." But what a lot of people fail to remember is that the two opposing groups in this war were NOT within the same country.
By the time the war began, 7 of the 13 states that made up the Confederacy had officially seceded from the United States of America, meaning that they denied any affiliation with the US, and instead established themselves as the Confederate States of America. And while the Confederacy was never officially recognized as a sovereign nation, its population was no longer that of United States citizens. These were foreigners who rejected our laws and our ideals and instead sought to impose their own for better or for worse.
This was not a just a skirmish or an instance of rivalry or rebellion. This was an act of perfidy and treason against the United States that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 people.
Following the events of the war, President Lincoln would go on to refer to Confederates as "Americans in rebellion", but that doesn't change the fact that he and President Johnson after him still had to issue pardons and amnesty to tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers and reinstate their citizenship. You know, because they committed crimes. Like treason.
To call this a "civil" war is a misrepresentation of what the Confederacy actually was in relation to the United States. Therefore, from this point forward I will be referring to the topic at hand as the "Confederate War," and I encourage all of you to do the same.
(TL;DR: Confederates were not US citizens, so calling the Civil War by that name is misleading. We should refer to it as the Confederate War.)
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.
The problem with your argument is that its main reason for support hinges on the idea that the Confederacy was sovereign and that their secession was legitimate. It doesn’t matter that the Confederates saw themselves as their own nation. What matters is that the Federal Government did not.
The American Civil War is called the “American Civil War” because it was fought between two groups within the United States of America: the Federal Government and the collection of states that called themselves the “Confederate States of America”. The Confederacy, despite their declarations of secession, was always part of the United States of America in so far as the Federal Government was concerned. Confederate soldiers and politicians were pardoned for their crimes, as in they were ultimately not convicted for treason.
By claiming that the Confederates were no longer American citizens, you inadvertently give credibility to the notion that the South’s secession was legitimate and that they were indeed a sovereign nation, whether it was your intent to do so or not. The Confederates absolutely were American citizens because their rebellion failed.
Also your alternative of calling it “The Confederate War” places too much emphasis on the Confederacy and can easily be adopted by Lost Causers. What’s there to prevent Neo-Confederates from co-opting the name “The Confederate War” for their beliefs? Honestly, not much. If anything, that name lends itself to the South’s cause due to the focus on the Confederacy.
The only way I can see that term being popularized is if it came with a massive push to discredit and fix the decades of historical revisionism that’s plagued our country’s history curriculum and popular mindset. And honestly, it would be better to just do that instead of unnecessarily changing the fair, accurate, and neutral name for the civil war that occurred within the United States of America, the “American Civil War”.
I don't really have any arguments or rebuttals to make in response, I just wanted to thank you for the criticism. It's definitely given me something to think about.
Idk why this is on my mind right now but it's something that just occurred to me while I was driving home today (TL;DR at the end):
I think a major problem with the way we learn about the Civil War is that it unwittingly paves the way for misconceptions and misinterpretations of the conflict between the North and the South, and that allows us as laypeople to undermine the gravity therein.
The most notable example being the fact that we call it the "Civil" War. Civil wars are defined as wars "between organized groups within the same state or country." In other words, for the American Civil War to actually qualify as a civil war, it would have had to been a conflict between two groups within the United States of America.
And if you've made it this far into the text you're probably thinking to yourself, "Uh yeah, Rubén, everybody knows that." But what a lot of people fail to remember is that the two opposing groups in this war were NOT within the same country.
By the time the war began, 7 of the 13 states that made up the Confederacy had officially seceded from the United States of America, meaning that they denied any affiliation with the US, and instead established themselves as the Confederate States of America. And while the Confederacy was never officially recognized as a sovereign nation, its population was no longer that of United States citizens. These were foreigners who rejected our laws and our ideals and instead sought to impose their own for better or for worse.
This was not a just a skirmish or an instance of rivalry or rebellion. This was an act of perfidy and treason against the United States that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 people.
Following the events of the war, President Lincoln would go on to refer to Confederates as "Americans in rebellion", but that doesn't change the fact that he and President Johnson after him still had to issue pardons and amnesty to tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers and reinstate their citizenship. You know, because they committed crimes. Like treason.
To call this a "civil" war is a misrepresentation of what the Confederacy actually was in relation to the United States. Therefore, from this point forward I will be referring to the topic at hand as the "Confederate War," and I encourage all of you to do the same.
(TL;DR: Confederates were not US citizens, so calling the Civil War by that name is misleading. We should refer to it as the Confederate War.)
Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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(I wouldn’t usually post pics from others like this but this is a really good infographic. I have also messaged them on instagram and suggested they make an ADHD infographic account, which I’d share. It’s just really good and I hope they make more.)
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remember to cry for help without guilt-tripping. i know it feels like you’ve been abandoned and betrayed, but it’s probably not true, and it’s not okay to accuse the people around you of something they might not have done.
“i guess none of you like me” could be better phrased as “i feel unloved right now”
“but nobody cares anyway” could be better phrased as “i feel insignificant and i need reassurance”
rather than assuming others’ feelings, give them time to explain them. you’ll usually get a much better answer.
This is really important for future predictions, too. “You’re eventually going to leave me” is impossible for someone else to disprove without just sticking around forever, but no one wants to stick around when they’re being constantly accused of future abandonment. Giving someone no choice but to either stay with you forever in order to prove you wrong or leave you and prove you right is incredibly emotionally manipulative, whether you mean it to be or not.
“I get scared sometimes because I’m afraid of being alone again” is easier to address and doesn’t leave your partner(s)/friend(s) feeling as though they’re being preemptively accused of something.
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