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Traffic at a busy intersection, District 1 of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam: Ho Chi Minh City known as Saigon, is the most populous city in Vietnam. The city's geography is defined by rivers and canals, the largest of which is the eponymously named Saigon River. As a municipality, Ho Chi Minh City consists of 16 urban districts, six rural districts, and one municipal city. Wikipedia
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Hanoi Traffic, Vietnam: Hanoi has faced traffic congestion for many years because the transport infrastructure development has not kept pace with urbanisation, population growth, and the increase of personal vehicles. Data shows that the city has about 8.4 million people and more than 7.6 million vehicles. Photo credit: Lại Thị Thanh Giang.
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#architecture#street#building#street photography#urban photography#urban#city#urban landscape#travel#asian#asia travel#vietnam#vietnamese#saigon#ho chi minh city#traffic#market#food market#street food#city scene#city photography#city life#streetshot#streetscape#street market#photooftheday#my photos#photography
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Văn Miếu, the Temple of Literature in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Originally founded in 1070 as Vietnam’s first university and in use as the Imperial Academy for over 700 years.
#and also one of my favorite places in hanoi hands down#văn miếu#temple of literature#vietnam#personal#every time I go back to vietnam I want to visit lol#it’s so beautiful and so much history packed into five courtyards#do yourself a favor and visit it if you’re in that corner of the world#photography#I couldn’t get a good pic of the first two courtyards where the students would study bc of a lot of foot traffic 😔#but it’s all nice green lawns and gravel paths and big shade trees#place prompt
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#women in uniform#uniform girl#police woman#smart women#woman in uniform#asian in uniform#red tie#hot chinese lady#vietnam hottie#white gloves#traffic cop
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#adventure#asia#canonef2890mmf456iii#canoneos3000v#kodak#kodakultramax400#places#sapa#vietnam#mountains#rural#travel#waterbuffalo#bovine#paddy#rice#paddyfield#terrace#water#trip#vacation#traffic#scanned#path#landscape#holiday#hiking#green#eos#film
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Vietnam leftovers :) What a great country, hard to find streets as lush colorful and busy, yet so safe to get lost in.
#fujifilm#xt2#fujixt2#xtrans3#fujinon#1855mm#zoom#fujilove#fujifilmpolska#fujixseries#mirrorless#apsc#provia#travel#vietnam#tourism#vacation#snap#streetphotography#hanoi#knockoff#market#people#streetscenes#scooter#traffic#asia#streetlife#localbusiness
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OLD QUARTER, VIETNAM: Diary of a Mad Expat, pt. 11
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#French architecture#heat#Hoan Kiem Lake#humidity#old quarter#Thaison Palace Hotel#traffic#Vespas#Vietnam
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Hải Phòng Thời Nay - Trang Tin Tức Tổng Hợp
Hải Phòng Thời Nay - Trang Tin Tức Tổng Hợp - Nơi chia sẻ thông tin về tình hình Hải Phòng - Góc nhìn đa sắc màu về ngành nghề Hải Phòng. https://haiphongthoinay.vn/
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Những điều cần biết về điều trị da? – Dranmytas
Hiện nay, điều trị da đang trở thành một lĩnh vực được quan tâm đặc biệt trong ngành chăm sóc sức khỏe và làm đẹp. Với sự phát triển của công nghệ và khoa h��c, các phương pháp điều trị da ngày càng được cải tiến và đa dạng hơn, giúp mang lại hiệu quả cao và an toàn cho người sử dụng. Các phương pháp điều trị da bao gồm các loại kem, thuốc, máy móc và các phương pháp tự nhiên, tất cả nhằm giải quyết các vấn đề về da như mụn trứng cá, sẹo, nám, tàn nhang, lão hóa, và các vấn đề khác. Việc điều trị da đang ngày càng được ưa chuộng và phổ biến trên toàn thế giới, đặc biệt là trong cộng đồng phụ nữ, nhằm giúp mang lại sự tự tin và làn da trẻ trung, khỏe mạnh. Tuy nhiên, nhiều người vẫn chưa hiểu rõ những điều cần thiết để điều trị da, vậy thì hãy cùng Dranmytas tìm hiểu vấn đề này qua bài viết dưới đây nhé!
I. Giới thiệu về điều trị da tại Dranmytas
Dranmytas là một thương hiệu chăm sóc da nổi tiếng tại Việt Nam, chuyên cung cấp các sản phẩm và dịch vụ điều trị da chất lượng cao. Dranmytas sở hữu một đội ngũ chuyên gia và bác sĩ da liễu giàu kinh nghiệm, có trình độ chuyên môn cao và luôn cập nhật những công nghệ và phương pháp mới nhất trong lĩnh vực điều trị da.
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điều trị da – dranmytas
Các sản phẩm và dịch vụ điều trị da của Dranmytas được thiết kế đặc biệt để giải quyết các vấn đề về da như mụn, nám, tàn nhang, lão hóa, sẹo và các vấn đề khác. Dranmytas sử dụng các thành phần tự nhiên và an toàn để đảm bảo sự hiệu quả và an toàn cho người sử dụng.
II. Những dịch vụ điều trị da tại Dranmytas
1. Điều trị mụn và sẹo mụn
Dranmytas cung cấp các phương pháp điều trị hiện đại như ánh sáng xanh, tia laser và các phương pháp khác nhằm giảm thiểu mụn và sẹo mụn, cải thiện da mịn màng và sáng hơn. Các chuyên gia tại Dramytas sẽ đưa ra phương pháp điều trị phù hợp với từng loại mụn của khách hàng, như sử dụng ánh sáng LED để giảm vi khuẩn gây mụn, làm sạch sâu lỗ chân lông, điều tiết sản xuất dầu và loại bỏ tế bào chết, cải thiện tình trạng viêm.
Bên cạnh đó, Dranmytas cũng cung cấp các gói điều trị mụn bao gồm điều trị mụn đơn giản và phức tạp, tùy thuộc vào tình trạng da của từng khách hàng. Để đạt được hiệu quả tốt nhất, các bác sĩ của chúng tôi sẽ đưa ra phương pháp điều trị phù hợp với từng trường hợp cụ thể.
Luôn ứng dụng công nghệ cao vào hoạt động, Dranmytas sử dụng các công nghệ tiên tiến như laser, công nghệ IPL và điều trị bằng tia UV để giúp làm sạch da và giảm vi khuẩn gây mụn. Ngoài ra, việc sử dụng các sản phẩm chất lượng cao để giúp làm dịu và cải thiện tình trạng da sau điều trị cũng được chú trọng hàng đầu.
Với phương châm “chăm sóc da tận tâm – đẹp da trọn đời”, Dranmytas luôn cam kết mang đến cho khách hàng sự hài lòng và tự tin với làn da khỏe mạnh và rạng rỡ. 2. Điều trị nám
Tại Dranmytas, chúng tôi cung cấp các gói điều trị nám bao gồm các phương pháp trị nám hiện đại và tiên tiến như công nghệ laser, peeling hóa học và các liệu pháp truyền thống. Đội ngũ bác sĩ và chuyên viên da liễu giàu kinh nghiệm của chúng tôi sẽ đưa ra phương pháp điều trị phù hợp với từng loại nám và tình trạng da của từng khách hàng cụ thể.
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Điều trị nám và điều trị mụn tại Dranmytas
Các phương pháp điều trị nám tại Dranmytas nhằm vào việc loại bỏ các đốm nâu, tàn nhang và nám trên da một cách an toàn và hiệu quả. Chúng tôi sử dụng các công nghệ tiên tiến như laser Pico, laser CO2 và các công nghệ IPL để giúp loại bỏ các vết nám trên da. Ngoài ra, chúng tôi còn sử dụng các liệu pháp tự nhiên và các sản phẩm chăm sóc da chuyên dụng để giúp làm sáng da và ngăn ngừa sự hình thành của nám trở lại.
III. Kết luận
Việc điều trị da là một quá trình phức tạp và yêu cầu sự chuyên nghiệp từ các bác sĩ và chuyên viên da liễu. Để đạt được kết quả tốt nhất trong điều trị da, cần phải chú ý đến việc chăm sóc và bảo vệ da hàng ngày, kết hợp với việc sử dụng các sản phẩm chăm sóc da chuyên dụng và các liệu pháp điều trị da hiện đại. Ngoài ra, việc thường xuyên kiểm tra và điều trị sớm các vấn đề về da cũng là cách hiệu quả để giữ gìn và cải thiện sức khỏe da. Dranmytas luôn tự hào là thương hiệu Dược Mỹ phẩm Trị Liệu da lâu đời và uy tín, mang lại sự yên tâm cho những khách hàng dù là khó tính nhất.
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BG3 Characters Safest Driver Headcanons
I've been thinking about that poll from months ago way too much, so I've pulled this from my drafts. In this essay, I will explain why Boo is the best driver. Astarion: Terrible. Absolutely terrible driver. He is doing his makeup with the visor down, looking at the mirror more than the road. Suspend your disbelief, he's driving in this universe. He can use mirrors. ♥ You have to grab the steering wheel, regularly. Without warning, the man twists around to find his purse in the back seat because he wants a different eyeliner than what he grabbed. You are on aux duty. He hates everything you've picked. 2/10, he lawyered his way into that license Gale: You would think he would be safe, but then you remember that Gale didn't pay attention in boring classes. And how hard could driving really be?? The man knows how to drive perfectly textbook. He also thinks he knows how to do it better than everyone else. He does not adapt well to poor drivers. The roads are full of poor drivers. He is yeling "Zipper!" at the merging traffic. You spend five minutes in the parking lot so he can find just the right song for the trip.
6/10, you will probably not die Halsin: The man drives slow, I'm sorry. He's fuel efficient as you can get with the windows down. He pulls over and stops traffic for ducks crossing the road, no matter what the current road conditions are. He stops to show you the new tree the neighbor got. He is a Yellowstone Park tourist. He wants to show you the world, one traffic-stopping mid-road parking job at a time. There is no music, we are listening to nature today. 4/10, you will be rear-ended with him and not the way most people want Jaheira: I stand by what I said last time: Jaheira reminds me of so many older women I know. She drives like she wants someone to start shit with her. She's so conditioned by having 5 kids fighting in the backseat at all times that every time she's behind the wheel she's having Vietnam-level flashbacks. Her blood is pumping in her ears. There is no road, there is only the red of her vision. She won't start the road rage incident directly, but by god, she will end it. (You tried to ask about music, but the look she gave you when asked killed the question.) 5/10, you make it to your destination intact. But at what cost? Your pants are a different color at the end of the trip than they were at the beginning. Karlach: Karlach is talking with her hands while she drives. She's fiddling with the radio constantly. You've blown four red lights. Three of them were the same red light because she took a wrong turn. She will not use GPS, she's got the vibe of where she's going. She was trying to show you something on her phone at the same time. It cannot wait. It was so good you have to see it right now. The tunes are so loud she hasn't heard the sirens behind her. 4/10, the tunes almost make up for it Lae'zel: You are helping her check her mirror distance before you get in the car. You are buckled in before the car even starts. You are not allowed to touch the light in the car if it is dark out. She was taught that it's illegal to have on at night and she takes that shit seriously. You are on blindspot-watching duty at all times. You're not allowed to have music on the in car, it is a distraction. 7/10, we are efficient, but we are miserable Minsc: Minsc cannot drive. Minsc was meant to drive today, but Minsc got into the wrong seat. We are all relieved. Jaheira trained him wrong on purpose and will kill you if you correct him. 0/10, don't even try. He will survive the accident, you will not. Minthara: Minthara, light of my life. She is gremlin cackling and riding bumpers the whole time. People are pulling off constantly to get away from her. You are white-knuckling in the passenger seat and are too afraid to let go of the bitch-bar. You pray her airbags are up to date because your life has not stopped flashing before your eyes since you got onto the road. We are exclusively listening to The Flight of the Valkyries. 7/10, it is shockingly efficient when no one else is on the road anymore
Shadowheart: I have been in many a 'Shadowhearts' car. The car is more of a problem than she is. She drives the type of car that makes people go, "You live like this?" She drives a manual. She was not trained to drive a manual. Almost every single dash light is on, the ones that aren't had their bulbs die out years ago. We don't know how old that trash is, but it lives here now. She has one of those cassette players that has to hook into your phone to come out the speakers. Good luck finding the right adaptor in the mess. 4/10, girl get your shit together Wyll: Wyll is the best driver, hands down...when he is alone. Like all things in his life, his greatest flaw is being too polite. He turns his whole fucking head to look at you when you talk because that is the polite thing to do. The road is secondary to how important your conversation and companionship are to him. And you can't not talk him! He's asking you genuine questions about your day because he's interested. You get to listen to whatever you want and he's totally down for it even if it's not normally his thing. He'll find something he likes about it. Alone: 100/10, he somehow makes everyone better drivers by just being on the road With you: 5/10, Wyll, please, look at the road. ;_;
Boo: My eyes are closed. It's better this way. We made it there in record time. I don't know how it happened. I don't need to know how it happened. ?/10, it's best if you don't think about it
#bg3#bg3 shitpost#shitpost headcanons#astarion#gale#bg3 gale#karlach#lae'zel#shadowheart#bg3 shadowheart#wyll#bg3 wyll#halsin#minthara#minsc#minsc and boo#boo#bg3 boo#jaheira
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Believe it or not, it is The Fall of Delta Green (2018) that finally got me to pay attention to Delta Green at large. Something about this cover art struck me as enticing, perhaps in the manner of a train wreck — Call of Cthulhu meets Vietnam? How are they going to pull that off?
Well, for starters, Fall isn’t Call of Cthulhu, it’s a standalone Gumshoe game (though it is compatible with both Trail of Cthulhu and Night’s Black Agents). I’m not super interested in the system, honestly, but I absolutely love the source material laid out here (and it is usable, really, with your Cthulhu game of choice). It was the operational history of Delta Green as presented here that hooked me on the larger Delta Green universe; the broad strokes of that are the same as in both the Pagan and Arc Dream DGs. What’s unique here is the particular focus on the ’60s, an era of dirty politics, dirty wars, massive social upheavals, drugs and all sorts of tomfoolery on the fringes of the counter-culture. As with the ’90s and our current era, the ’60s seem particularly rich backdrop suited to bringing out the themes of DG.
It’s also a rich moment in DG’s history. The titular fall — the unsuccessful dismantling of the program — is triggered by an unauthorized operation in Vietnam and Cambodia gone horribly wrong in late 1969, early 1970. That episode is kept vague in all histories of Delta Green, but here it takes on a vivid horror — Col. Wade Satchel is sort of a Delta Green version of Col. Walter Kurtz from Apocalypse Now. He traffics with dangerous forces and gets a lot of people killed before being assassinated by survivors of one of his doomed off-the-books operations. Marrying that film with the Cthulhu mythos makes for some truly unpleasant dreams!
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Hey Groovers! I hope you're all well! I'm back from my two week holiday in Vietnam. Here's a pic of me standing in Hanoi's famous Train Street, where you can enjoy a beverage or a meal while a high speed train whooshes past literally inches away. More Vietnamese picture spam under the cut.
Some pics too of one of the hotels we stayed at in Hanoi which blew me away with the beautiful design and facilities and the amazing staff. We felt like rock stars staying there! It was just across the street too from the Australian Embassy:
Another hotel we stayed at in Saigon had the BEST rooftop pool:
Vietnam is an incredible holiday...still very cheap but with world class hotels and delicious food. The countryside is captivating, and the beauty of the landscape in Ninh Binh and Halong Bay in particular was jaw-dropping. The cities are a mind-blowing experience, especially the well-documented traffic 'chaos'. The favoured mode of transport is scooters/ motorbikes and there are very few rules when it comes to driving. Drive on the right, on the left, on the footpath...anything goes. Everyone seems to be driving while on their phones, often while carrying two or three passengers. Sometimes there's a dog sitting between the driver's feet. For the first few days we were there crossing the road was quite a hair-raising experience, but you quickly learn to tap into the rhythm of the traffic and to be 'predictable' as my son described it. If you need to cross the road just walk at a steady pace, don't make any 'unpredictable' moves, and the motorbikes will go around you. It sounds crazy as I type it out now when I'm back home but really, that's the system that worked best for us! We had no 'near misses' either.
Vietnam was an amazing experience, and I would recommend it as a holiday destination 100%. I also need to add that I feel very humbled and moved by the history and culture I was exposed to, in particular the War Remnants Museum in Saigon. Things we saw and read about there will haunt me forever.
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Next season gonna be wild not just because the drama, plot, war, yada yada but also seeing socmany dragons together.
Just imagine.
Vhagar flying her cranky ass up just to see all those relatives she did not talk to for YEARS:
Senike Granny Vhagar: OMG A REUNION!?!? Hiii Silvyyyyy, hiii Vermiii how are youu???? How's the kids?? Oh Arrax I haven't seen you since you were a hatchling! UW .....So....where are the dornish? (She needs to take her pills)
Seasmoke is that one relatable person who does not know half of the people in the meeting (Silverwing&Vermithor) and just akwardly smiles and nods to the folks. Occasionally laughs when someone mentions some drama that happened in the family. (He wasn't even born yet when that happened)
Vermithor is that old man who tells his grandkids how he went to school: Ohhh Jaehearys if only you were here to see! :3 We are going to burn the Dornish with Vhagar and Caraxes AGAIN :3 (He does not know the family drama like at all, papa is clueless)
Silverwing is just there to supervise everyone and take pretty aesthetic pictures of the clouds, she will need at least one couple picture with Vermithor too. She also brought the bougie drinks and money for the kids.
Vermax is hyperactive from the energy drinks (Syrax forgot to hide those)
Syrax wants to go home becasue the vibe is low, everyone is lame and her son is doing backflips between the elderly.
Moondancer wanted to talk to Vermax but insted started to annoy the snob cousin Sunfyre
Sunfyre is hiding from that one menacing younger cousin who bites, and in the quiet wants to do his duolingo lesson of the day. (It will not happen, insted will be bitten in the elbow, Granny Vhagar yells at him, instead of Moondancer)
Caraxes is telling the kids stories about his time in the Vietnam war and adds in the end: DO NOT TELL THIS TO YOUR MOTHER! (Syrax, Dreamfyre and Silverwing would jump him for this)
Dreamfyre is the one who supervises the little kids (she is fine, that she does not need to talk to neither of her siblings)
Tessarion is late by two hours (there was traffic) and will crash into the party later.
Sheepstealer is just some rando food delivery guy who stayed to eat a little and scare off children who got close to him (he's mean :( )
Oh and it all happened at Meleys funeral.
#idk what is this i have weird thoughts#house of the dragon#hotd#vhagar#caraxes#syrax#seasmoke#vermithor#silverwing#moondancer#vermax#dreamfyre#sunfyre#sheepstealer#tessarion#meleys#im brainrot at this point
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#adventure#asia#canonef2890mmf456iii#canoneos3000v#kodak#kodakultramax400#places#sapa#vietnam#mountains#rural#travel#waterbuffalo#bovine#paddy#rice#paddyfield#terrace#water#trip#vacation#traffic#scanned#path#landscape#holiday#hiking#green#eos#film
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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
November 8, 2024
Heather Cox Richardson
Nov 09, 2024
Social media has been flooded today with stories of Trump voters who are shocked to learn that tariffs will raise consumer prices as reporters are covering that information. Daniel Laguna of LevelUp warned that Trump’s proposed 60% tariff on Chinese imports could raise the costs of gaming consoles by 40%, so that a PS5 Pro gaming system would cost up to $1,000. One of the old justifications for tariffs was that they would bring factories home, but when the $3 billion shoe company Steve Madden announced yesterday it would reduce its imports from China by half to avoid Trump-promised tariffs, it said it will shift production not to the U.S., but to Cambodia, Vietnam, Mexico, and Brazil.
There are also stories that voters who chose Trump to lower household expenses are unhappy to discover that their undocumented relatives are in danger of deportation. When CNN’s Dana Bash asked Indiana Republican senator-elect Jim Banks if undocumented immigrants who had been here for a long time and integrated into the community would be deported, Banks answered that deportation should include “every illegal in this country that we can find.” Yesterday a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down a policy established by the Biden administration that was designed to create an easier path to citizenship for about half a million undocumented immigrants who are married to U.S. citizens.
Meanwhile, Trump’s advisors told Jim VandeHei and MIke Allen of Axios that Trump wasted valuable time at the beginning of his first term and that they will not make that mistake again. They plan to hit the ground running with tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, deregulation, and increased gas and oil production. Trump is looking to fill the top ranks of the government with “billionaires, former CEOs, tech leaders and loyalists.”
After the election, the wealth of Trump-backer Elon Musk jumped about $13 billion, making him worth $300 billion. Musk, who has been in frequent contact with Russian president Vladimir Putin, joined a phone call today between President-elect Trump and Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky.
In Salon today, Amanda Marcotte noted that in states all across the country where voters backed Trump, they also voted for abortion rights, higher minimum wage, paid sick and family leave, and even to ban employers from forcing their employees to sit through right-wing or anti-union meetings. She points out that 12% of voters in Missouri voted both for abortion rights and for Trump.
Marcotte recalled that Catherine Rampell and Youyou Zhou of the Washington Post showed before the election that voters overwhelmingly preferred Harris’s policies to Trump’s if they didn’t know which candidate proposed them. An Ipsos/Reuters poll from October showed that voters who were misinformed about immigration, crime, and the economy tended to vote Republican, while those who knew the facts preferred Democrats. Many Americans turn for information to social media or to friends and family who traffic in conspiracy theories. As Angelo Carusone of Media Matters put it: “We have a country that is pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.”
In The New Republic today, Michael Tomasky reinforced that voters chose Trump in 2024 not because of the economy or inflation, or anything else, but because of how they perceived those issues—which is not the same thing. Right-wing media “fed their audiences a diet of slanted and distorted information that made it possible for Trump to win,” Tomasky wrote. Right-wing media has overtaken legacy media to set the country’s political agenda not only because it’s bigger, but because it speaks with one voice, “and that voice says Democrats and liberals are treasonous elitists who hate you, and Republicans and conservatives love God and country and are your last line of defense against your son coming home from school your daughter.”
Tomasky noted how the work of Matthew Gertz of Media Matters shows that nearly all the crazy memes that became central campaign issues—the pet-eating story, for example, or the idea that the booming economy was terrible—came from right-wing media. In those circles, Vice President Kamala Harris was a stupid, crazed extremist who orchestrated a coup against President Joe Biden and doesn’t care about ordinary Americans, while Trump is under assault and has been for years, and he’s “doing it all for you.”
Investigative reporter Miranda Green outlined how “pink slime” newspapers, which are AI generated from right-wing sites, turned voters to Trump in key swing state counties. Republican strategist Sarah Longwell, who studies focus groups, told NPR, “When I ask voters in focus groups if they think Donald Trump is an authoritarian, the #1 response by far is, ‘What is an authoritarian?’”
In a social media post, Marcotte wrote: “A lot of voters are profoundly ignorant. More so than in the past.” That jumped out to me because there was, indeed, an earlier period in our history when voters were “pickled in right-wing misinformation and rage.”
In the 1850s, white southern leaders made sure that voters did not have access to news that came from outside the American South, and instead steeped them in white supremacist information. They stopped the mail from carrying abolitionist pamphlets, destroyed presses of antislavery newspapers, and drove antislavery southerners out of their region.
Elite enslavers had reason to be concerned about the survival of their system of human enslavement. The land boom of the 1840s, when removal of Indigenous peoples had opened up rich new lands for settlement, had priced many white men out of the market. They had become economically unstable, roving around the country working for wages or stealing to survive. And they deeply resented the fabulously wealthy enslavers who they knew looked down on them.
In 1857, North Carolinian Hinton Rowan Helper wrote a book attacking enslavement. No friend to his Black neighbors, Helper was a virulent white supremacist. But in The Impending Crisis of the South: How to Meet It, he used modern statistics to prove that slavery destroyed economic opportunity for white men, and assailed “the illbreeding and ruffianism of the slaveholding officials.” He noted that voters in the South who did not own slaves outnumbered by far those who did. "Give us fair play, secure to us the right of discussion, the freedom of speech, and we will settle the difficulty at the ballot-box,” he wrote.
In the North the book sold like hotcakes—142,000 copies by fall 1860. But southern leaders banned the book, and burned it, too. They arrested men for selling it and accused northerners of making war on the South. Politicians, newspaper editors, and ministers reinforced white supremacy, warned that the end of slavery would mean race war, and preached that enslavement was God’s law.
When northern voters elected Abraham Lincoln in November 1860 on a platform of containing enslavement in the South, where the sapped soil would soon cut into production, southern leaders decided—usually without the input of voters—to secede from the Union. As leaders promised either that there wouldn’t be a fight, or that if a fight happened it would be quick and painless, poor southern whites rallied to the cause of creating a nation based on white supremacy, reassured by South Carolina senator James Chesnut’s vow that he would personally drink all the blood shed in any threatened civil war.
When Confederate forces fired on Fort Sumter in April 1861, poor white men set out for what they had come to believe was an imperative cause to protect their families and their way of life. By 1862 their enthusiasm had waned, and leaders passed a conscription law. That law permitted wealthy men to hire a substitute and exempted one man to oversee every 20 enslaved men, providing another way for rich men to keep their sons out of danger. Soldiers complained it was a “rich man’s war and a poor man’s fight.”
By 1865 the Civil War had killed or wounded 483,026 men out of a southern white population of about five and a half million people. U.S. armies had pushed families off their lands, and wartime inflation drove ordinary people to starvation. By 1865, wives wrote to their soldier husbands to come home or there would be no one left to come home to.
Even those poor white men who survived the war could not rebuild into prosperity. The war took from the South its monopoly of global cotton production, locking poor southerners into profound poverty from which they would not begin to recover until the 1930s, when the New Deal began to pour federal money into the region.
Today, when I received a slew of messages gloating that Trump had won the election and that Republican voters had owned the libs, I could not help but think of that earlier era when ordinary white men sold generations of economic aspirations for white supremacy and bragging rights.
LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN
HEATHER COX RICHARDSON
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