@TheAlexSylvian The person he's quoting is from Mississippi. People from the south genuinely just believe this because Lost Cause revisionism was and still is super prevalent here.
@BIG_TRAKAS Because building vessels capable of traversing open sea is incredibly difficult, and accurately navigating the open sea is even more difficult than that, but the free folk did do it. Bear Island suffers the brunt of these exact types of raids all the time.
@star1ightstan13 There is no Vanderbilt to force things along with railroads. There is a Vanderbilt to force things along with data centers. Dozens of them.
@LavenderGhast The word you are looking is tertiary. Also I 100% percent think sociopolitical commentary was a major consideration when Mike Pondsmith made Cyberpunk, probably equal consideration as the cool looking stuff.