maximus veritas

@PUMPMAN894814 @Will_Tanner_1 "Immoral and un-Christian moron."

@element265x @Will_Tanner_1 "Wakanda"

King Leopold II did a reasonably good job ruling and governing the Congo, particularly in rooting out the Arab slavers from Zanzibar and the cannibal chieftains who had long made the place a living hell The corvée's exactions were overstated, and the benefits far outweighed it

@jjfThompson @tchad84 Be honest with yourself. Do you wish that the South had won and that slavery continued to be practiced?

@element265x @tchad84 Slavery, in the popular sense, was the cause of the war, as property is the cause of robbery. The occasion was slavery, which was the occasion in which constitutional questions occurred.

Slavery has become connected to the revisionist desire to be more inclusive of blacks in our history. Especially as it relates to Lincoln’s War. Gary Gallagher: “Students and adults interested in the Civil War are reluctant to believe that anyone would risk life or fortune for something as abstract as ‘the Union.’ A war to end slavery seems more compelling.” He then noted how “Much Civil War scholarship over the past decades has diminished the centrality of Union.”

@PUMPMAN894814 @Will_Tanner_1 You are delusional, poorly informed, or lying to yourself.

@element265x @Will_Tanner_1 That is exactly what is was before and after his rule. The murders, slavery, cannibalism, and hand-chopping came to an end because of the Belgians…

@PUMPMAN894814 @Will_Tanner_1 "Primeval anarchy" might be preferable to being raped, pillaged and butchered -- both physically and metaphorically -- for the enrichment of a faraway despot.

@element265x @Will_Tanner_1 The 70-odd years of Belgian rule, public and private, were the only years of good governance and prosperity they ever got. Before then, they were a Stone Age landmass characterized by all the worst things. After then, they got decolonized and reverted back to primeval anarchy.

@1heavydong @HVNYrefugee Methodist, actually.

@HVNYrefugee He was a jew wearing a skunk butt

The big problem in America, actually, is that nobody knows who Jedediah Smith is anymore.

@MrBiglyTruth @ryanswalters73 @TheTexianDM Sooo... you're a racist bigot AND an anti-semite?

@ryanswalters73 @TheTexianDM "If your state was out of the American Union, would you vote to join the United States today, as things stand right now?" No chance.

Here is a question I want to pose to anyone who wants to answer: If your state was out of the American Union, would you vote to join the United States today, as things stand right now? H/T @TheTexianDM

@ryanswalters73 @TheTexianDM yes.

@jjfThompson @tchad84 Suggesting that slavery had little to do with the civil war is the most delusional, revisionist cope imaginable. It's like arguing that someone's pregnancy wasn't really caused by the sexual intercourse that transpired.

@tchad84 Because issues surrounding slavery were constitutional questions. Private property rights were threatened which were protected by the Constitution.

@eleftherus @jjfThompson The superior civilization? By what metric? Being more racist, backward and poorly educated is hardly something to brag about Elef.

@jjfThompson Unionism was just a front for Northern sectionalism. The point of the war was to impoverish and subjugate the South, which was the superior civilization.

@normanbuntzhsb @drinkonsaturday @Cat5SMASHICANE Is Norman Buntz the lawn police?

@drinkonsaturday @Cat5SMASHICANE So I guess your yard is the neighborhood dump where you allow all your neighbors to dump their shit in it since this guy doing it doesn’t bother you.

One man's passion for alternating stripes, is the HOA's worst nightmare: a lawn so neatly kept, every neighbor wants tips and tricks of their own. Why take pride in such a thing? If you're gonna ruffle some feathers, what better way than to do it with style? Line by line, and meeting "the rules" never looked so good, right? What would you line-up? A beige, cookie-cutter adherence of uniformity, or a stylish, yet brazen middle finger to the man? The choice is clear, with a hint of photosynthesized green.

@BrionMcClanahan Your attacks on Lincoln clearly seem to be fueled by a congential sore-loserism. The South lost, and it deserved to lose. Perhaps it's time to get over it.

New England Federalists argued that the "National Republicanism" of both Jefferson's second term and Madison's administration would lead to a Napoleonic figure. Henry Clay literally used Napoleon to defend his "American System." Clay was Lincoln's mentor. Lincoln=U.S. Napoleon

@real_lord_miles Just when we all thought you couldn't be any more stupid, you go ahead and surprise us.

I’ve landed in Berlin for a meeting and damn is it ugly, some of the worst architecture I’ve ever seen. This is a deliberate act of oppression from the government to restrict the empowerment of 1930s /40s Germany

@BrionMcClanahan I have no idea who you are, but it's quite clear that you are a douchebag, "literally."

i have no idea who you are. which means that you are literally insignificant.

@steppedenizen @cityaestheticss It's the exact opposite. The power isn't generated in the cities and transported out. It's generated in non-urban areas and then transported in.

@cityaestheticss Meanwhile on the left we see power lines which we urbanites are paying to potentially electrify said land but isn’t so that the suburbanites on the right can have some facsimile of the great outdoors.

Outdoor spaces are just becoming buffer zones that no one wants to spend time in

@WhaleLandUtahni @trooperoutlaw @mattvanswol I lived in Washington for 12 years. It is absolutely a law in Washington.

@trooperoutlaw @mattvanswol Literally not a law here in Washington. Don't have to stop on a 4 lane highway. So shove your silly story

I don't know about you, but I've been seeing just a general disregard for kids in society. >Not stopping for school busses >Refusing to let families with kids into restaurants >Getting angry when kids are just being kids in public When did this start happening?

@JeremiahDJohns @naterdogg Dude, people like cars. It's called freedom.

@naterdogg If you want to live in surburbia and drive everywhere, great. Ltierally every city in America other than NYC is built for that. I'm asking that in ONE city, we prioritize pedestrians and transit over cars. And baby brain idiots like you freak out and call it authoritarianism.

I love how this is presented as conspiracy when it's just the very obvious goal we talk about openly. Yes, I want fewer cars in Manhattan. I want less driving. Less traffic. Don't drive here. Pay the extra toll, or take transit, or just don't come. It's not a secret.

@GeneralplanWest @UbermenschMind "Blouse?" lulz

@UbermenschMind Das All. Sturmabzeichen ist auf der linken Brustseite unter dem EK 1 zutragen. Auch sollten die Sterne auf den Schulterklappen Gold sein statt Silber. Außerdem ist eine generische Mannschafts Feldbluse für einen Hauptmann unüblich, die höheren Offiziere hatten Maßanfertigungen.

Reject the man cave, embrace the study

@UbermenschMind dumbest, gayest "study" ever.

@itsnasrallah @THEZONEEEEEE @IMPERATORAUS Stupid take.

@THEZONEEEEEE @IMPERATORAUS Nothing is stupid brother, everything is an opinion/personal belief. I am sure they have their meanings to you, won’t hear me calling you stupid for believing in them.

Name a bigger downgrade.