No to slavery!
No to slavery!
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Why go with the inferior product?
John Brown: This is the original Canadian design of the FN FAL. Weep at perfection.
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lol what does your username mean?
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It means I signed up for the original Kbin during the original reddit migration but then the developer got overwhelmed and the site was unuseable.
Then I signed up for the next one, supposedly run by a team to avoid such a meltdown. Then the head maintainer just took everything down and vanished.
So now I am on mbin, which is yet another fork of kbin.
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I know where you live
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Harpers Ferry, WV is one of the most important National Parks in the entire country because of the history it contains. Highly recommend every American make the trek at some point in their lives.
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Me: "John Brown? May I introduce Nat Turner. Mister Turner? I'd like you to meet John Brown."
Should be required reading:
https://www.abramsbooks.com/product/nat-turner_9780810972278/
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Oh fuck yeah.
Nat Turner was a John Henry mother fucker. Need to give him a god damn mini gun.
Self evident truths go "braaaaaaaat"!
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Truly, one of the good ones. And his soul goes marching on!
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Myself, a strategist: Mr. Toussaint Louverture, allow me to introduce you to the principles of agroforestry.
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"These look great but you forgot to bring the ramrods."
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There was a book by Harry Turtledove called "The Guns of the South" which was about time-traveling white nationalists who go back in time and arm the Confederacy with AK-47's in an attempt to get the South to win the Civil War, it's actually a really good read, as far as Turtledove books go, it doesn't get lost in the weeds too much.
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Did you nerds know you wanted to read a John Brown Isekai story?
Well you do, that's just a fact, here it is:
https://www.royalroad.com/fiction/57505/his-soul-is-marching-on-to-another-world-or-the
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For those who, like me, don't know who John Brown is:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Brown_(abolitionist)
Fun fact, John Brown had chronic back pain from carrying around the weight of his massive balls.
Actual fact: Americans don't learn about John Brown because John Brown's existence highlights a lot of ugly truths about American history, the American people at the time, and how corrupted the core of the American experiment really is.
i grew up in Virginia and we had an entire year in our standards of learning dedicated to learning about Nat Turner and John Brown. we might not anymore after that parents' rights group in loudoun county brought the phrase "critical race theory" to the national table
Actual fact: many Americans do learn about John brown in school, some of us even learned about Nat Turner. It's downright common to learn about the Bloody Kansas affair as it was a major inciting incident of our civil war.
I wouldn't be surprised though if I only learned so much about this because I grew up in a northern state that was one of the primary hotbeds of militant abolitionism (Ohio). We were home to Brown, Grant, and Sherman. We also learned that the fugitive slave act was an act of outright southern aggression on our right to free our fellow humans from their barbarous cruelty. Unfortunately ths state's filled with dipshits flying the slavers' rag these days talking about a heritage that certainly wasn't ours.
Horseshit.
I learned about him in public school 40 years ago, and so have both my kids more recently. My 8th grade class visited Harper's Ferry.
edit: It would be accurate enough if you qualified it saying "some Americans dont learn about Brown." Trying to make it a sweeping generalization is horseshit, presumably aimed at being inflammatory.
Another fun fact: John Brown's body lies a mouldering in the grave. His soul is marching on!
Literally cannot see his name without the song going through my head.
Josh Brolin reads the last speech to the court that sentenced John Brown to death.
Behind the Bastards did an episode on John Brown for the Christmas anti-Bastard episode a few years ago, definitely worth a listen.
This is me, remembering I also didn't learn about John Brown in school and being really pissed off about it
I grew up in a town in Ohio where John Brown built a tannery (well before the Civil War). That building was fucking well-built and was still standing after more than a century of total neglect, but in the mid-70s some Republicans on the city council had it condemned and torn down over the space of three days, too fast for anyone to take legal action to stop it. Ironically, they initially couldn't tear it down and had to bring in heavy-duty demolition equipment to bring it down; at one point they were considering explosives. Today it is - you guessed it - a parking lot, ironically enough for a walking trail along the river.
They probably had it torn down just out of general hatred of history, not because John Brown was an abolitionist. Back then, even though Republicans were still assholes, they generally had the same distaste for slavery as everybody else. It took the Reagan Revolution (which kicked off the 1980 election cycle in Philadelphia, Mississippi for some reason) to make racism cool again.
You can watch the show or read the book The Good Lord Bird for a fictionalization of his life, on my list of to-watch and to-read for sure. Anyone have any critical reviews on those as to accuracy?