James Houser

@Adfghh2333 @westernexile black and white photograph as pfp, opinion disregarded

@jamesthouser @westernexile Fag

When you read the telegrams between Emperors Nicholas II and Wilhelm II and realise the true instigators of the First World War escaped justice and still rule us today.

@xcsler @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten So then why did the South not allow their slaves to secede? And would the North not have been justified in invading them, even if it wasn't about secession, in order to free their fellow men from bondage and protect these natural rights?

@jamesthouser @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten The only consistent stance would be to peacefully allow any individual/community to secede at anytime. Any other stance is a violation of natural rights.

Civil War historian, Shelby Foote, discusses a few of the grievances in the south that led to the Civil War. Foote worked with Ken Burns on his documentary 'The Civil War'. Many facts that led to the conflict are never taught in school, but are well documented.

@Gr0mGr0m @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten But they were, and are, human. They spoke English and went to church and wrote. If they weren't human, why did their slaveowners, um, fuck them? Lol I also encourage you to do much more research on Africa. They had empires and cities and writing and temples, you know.

@jamesthouser @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Why would Africans vote if they weren't human? Humans vote. Donkeys lived in the south too and they didn't vote. Africans were seen as closer to Donkeys, not humans. Africans in Africa lived like animals.

@TheMa78024 @TeddyKnudsen @LRM0084 @Evans_Wroten There was also nothing in it, strictly speaking, that forbade the use of armed force against insurrection. In fact Article 1 Section 8 specifically provides for it...but the Constitution says nothing about secession. So the Union's war was strictly Constitutional.

@TeddyKnudsen @LRM0084 @jamesthouser @Evans_Wroten Amend the Constitution? Why, there's nothing in it that forbids secession.

@xcsler @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Yes, but people in here are arguing that the North didn't even care about the slaves. My question: did the slaves get to vote on secession? If not, how can they claim it's what the "Southern" people wanted? If the slaves had voted, what would they choose?

@jamesthouser @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten It goes both ways. It could be argued that the North is just a hypocritical protesting for freedom for the slaves but not allowing the South to secede.

@Gr0mGr0m @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten It was certainly hypocritical for the South. The freedom to choose their own government was something they were very vocal about, but the slaves had no such freedom. The South "chose" to secede, they say, but did the slaves get a vote? Did they not live in the South?

@jamesthouser @LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Even many Northerners didn't consider Africans to be 'people', so it's hardly hypocritical at all. They would say if Africans were humans why do they live in such barbarous conditions in Africa that are more similar to animals than civilization.

@LRM0084 @TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten The same could be said for Southern slavery; indeed, they were the most monstrous of hypocrites, arguing about their right to leave a nation when the people who they exploited for their wealth did not have the right to leave the plantation.

@TeddyKnudsen @Evans_Wroten Why not allow it though? To me it seems far more peaceful than forcing someone to stay who doesn’t want to stay

@BrainLeakage03 @RaunchyDragon There is no NCO business, corporal. Only things that you don't want me to see. Now go sweep the motor pool. I'll send SGT Chalmers to supervise you, she makes sure things happen in my platoon.

@jamesthouser @RaunchyDragon Don’t you have some paperwork that needs your signature, sir?

This is—with complete and utter sincerity—the real reason women in the Infantry is a bad idea. When paperwork, formal counseling, and “remedial training” fail to solve the problem, the last resort of the infantry NCO is the wall-to-wall counseling. Introduce women to the mix, and you create a “dammed if you do, dammed if you don’t” situation. If a female private is in need of such corrective measures, and the NCO does it, he’s a woman beater and no one respects him. If he doesn’t do it, he’s showing favoritism. Either way, unit cohesion erodes. But hey, at least we broke the “glass ceiling.”

@BrainLeakage03 @RaunchyDragon I was an NCO before I became an officer. Outside of preventing imminent harm to someone, there is no reason to ever put your hands on a subordinate. It shows your weakness, not your strength. If your soldiers can only be compelled by force you have already failed as a leader.

@RaunchyDragon Don’t you have some paperwork that needs your signature, sir?

@AbrasiveSparky @StatisticUrban The Framers also created a mechanism by which the Constitution could be amended by future generations. Future generations then chose to amend the Constitution to allow an income tax. How it works

@StatisticUrban Framers? An income tax WAS found unconstitutional specifically because the framers kept it out of the constitution

By virtue of the 16th Amendment, an income tax is ~the most constitutional thing the federal government can possibly do. There is no reading or judicial theory that can overcome it. Based on a plain text understanding, with the framer's intent considered, it's indisputable.

@ryangrim The collapse of an empire often has negative effects on the metropole. Italy wasn't doing so hot after 476 either.

The collapse of the Soviet Union saw the greatest peace time reduction in life expectancy and standard of living of any major human population ever. Just an fyi.

@electron_frog_7 @USA_Polling No one is afraid of anyone who hides behind a cartoon pfp bro sorry

@USA_Polling It doesn’t matter who supports it or not retard. This is going to be resolved with violence.

Support For Keeping Birthright Citizenship: Support: 70% Oppose 24% Quinnipiac / December 17, 2025

@romanov1733 @GlobObservatory I don't think you know what Hitler had planned for Ukraine

@GlobObservatory Iryna is still alive in that one.

I'm really amused by this guy who keeps making up fake arguments for him to win. It's like me in the shower but stupider

@VikingRobVWO @Asst_to_the_RM More to the point, few of the greatest generals in American history had any enlisted experience. Washington began his career as an officer. Grant, Sherman, Lee, MacArthur, Pershing, all West Pointers who went straight to officership. Marshall, VMI, same thing.

@jamesthouser @Asst_to_the_RM And how successful was our WW2 results until our Generals started gaining combat experience? Perhaps we should just say enlisted experience in general.

A college educated officer with zero combat experience is the biggest detriment to the war fighting effort that has ever existed. We need leaders with experience, not boys and girls that sat through your worthless classes.

@VikingRobVWO @Asst_to_the_RM I appreciate you ignoring that you were 100% wrong about your earlier assertions and pivoting to being wrong about something else. And as someone who himself was enlisted for 10 years before commissioning, I feel I can say that there are good and bad officers from both sources.

@VikingRobVWO @Asst_to_the_RM Also the Mexican border war is kinda the definition of low body count. 65 US KIA. A Civil War pissing contest killed more people.

Is this trolling???? Eisenhower and Bradley both commissioned at West Point in 1915!and both served in the Mexican Border war AND WW1, 2 conflicts not known for a small body count or tactical innovation or overwhelming victory. At least they took lessons learned once they made rank and did close the deal out in WW2 because they had the experience of 2 WARS with a high body count.

@VikingRobVWO @Asst_to_the_RM We won World War II without doing this nonsense. Eisenhower and Bradley hadn't had combat experience and they defeated Nazi Germany.

All officers should be required to do a minimum of 4 years enlisted in a career field prior to commissioning. You can't get a MBA degree going to college straight out of high school and then be the GM of a collision repair facility (as an example) if you have never turned wrenches, welded, painted, ordered parts, or had any kind of shared experience with the experts actually doing the work. It's the same with pretty much most other careers. An insurance company is not going to hire a freshly graduated kid from college to be a regional branch manager without first working in the industry. The military is the only place you'll see this. The excuse is "they go through training and they have the NCO'S to mentor them". Either the system needs a different approach or we really need to discuss command team relationships, roles, and responsibilities. The best officer's I've worked with were enlisted first, and they could run an FSC or a Battery because they first turned wrenches, drove trucks, manned a howitzer, ect, and that practical skill experience, especially in terms of developing realistic timelines for tasks, and understanding that sustainment doesn't "just happen" by PFM was critical in developing COA's and plans that made sense.