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[-] SorosFootSoldier@hexbear.net 32 points 5 months ago

Going back in time and giving him an exoskeleton and an m60

[-] BelieveRevolt@hexbear.net 13 points 5 months ago

Like at the beginning of the movie Timecop when the guy kills the Confederate soldiers with future guns, except do that at Harper's Ferry.

ACAB includes timecops

[-] comrade_pibb@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

All Timecops are Timebastards

[-] SwitchyWitchyandBitchy@hexbear.net 10 points 5 months ago

If you're going back in time just give Native Americans machine guns and artillery. And when the salve trade inevitably takes place but the slaves go to Europe instead of the Americas, give the slaves rifles and tanks.

[-] RyanGosling@hexbear.net 27 points 5 months ago

If I remember correctly, he was essentially the catalyst for the civil war right? Yet we don’t hear anything about him in schools. I was simply taught that the north was anti slavery, of course, the implication being they did it out of their good hearts. They never taught us that the south never fell in the first place, that they actually rose again and implemented apartheid instead of slavery and most of America supported it. Learning about a man who demanded the nation pay for its sins of slavery with blood goes against the narrative of the good republican who embraced the American value of human rights

[-] pastalicious@hexbear.net 21 points 5 months ago

If you live somewhere that they do teach it they tend to frame his as vaguely mentally unwell. If your high school history teacher is chill he’ll go beyond the shitty textbook and tell you John Brown was cool.

[-] jack@hexbear.net 12 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

In Ohio you learn he was the coolest mfer who ever lived

Edit: in elementary school we learned John Brown's Body in music class

[-] charly4994@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

I vaguely remember people mentioning that it was through literature like Uncle Tom's Cabin that set the war off which seemed silly on its face. There's even a story of Lincoln meeting the author and going "So this is the little lady who started this great war." Then again US history in schools is just an absolute joke compared to the material reality of history so when people have no real frame of understanding the blowback from history, it starts in school stories like books setting it off rather than the South being terrified of further slave revolts akin to Haiti and John Brown's uprising showed just how easily it might actually happen amongst a lot more.

[-] MusicOwl@hexbear.net 23 points 5 months ago

And his soul goes marching on jb-shining

[-] Denvil@lemmy.one 21 points 5 months ago

God speed John Brown

[-] Angel@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

TIL I share a birthday with John Brown

[-] emizeko@hexbear.net 17 points 5 months ago
[-] Angel@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago
[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago

L'chaim, Angel, too...

[-] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

Happy birthday

[-] LGOrcStreetSamurai@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago

America’s first and strongest quirked up whiteboy

[-] Lemmygradwontallowme@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

*The Only Good USian

[-] blindbunny@lemmy.ml 5 points 5 months ago
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