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[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 10 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Your namesake had honor and faith and did what was right despite it ending his family. You are a bit of a hypocrite here. The one good American cracker proves my point. John Brown had an intuitive understanding of his place in the world, the equality between all beings that had to be brought about, his role in the spirit of revolution. He did not follow pleasure and pain but a revolutionary faith.

[-] JohnBrownNote@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago

your point is severely undermined by the fact that people of faith were also on the other side of the conflict, using their mystical beliefs to uphold and defend the institution.

if we're honest, the one good cracker was a stopped clock.

[-] zed_proclaimer@hexbear.net 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

There were millions of liberal abolitionist reformists and not one of them had what it took to spark the necessary revolution. Only the one with an irrational faith took that step