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His role in the French revolution is controversial, and he was ultimately unsuccessful when his liberal reformist government was replaced by revolutionary terror.
The above is an incredibly simplified account and if you're interested in reading more about Lafayette you should preorder this:
https://www.amazon.com/Hero-Two-Worlds-Lafayette-Revolution/dp/154173033X
I would highly recommend this book to you!
Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345803116/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_Vn.lCbBR3VY85
Pitbulls (kinda silly name since includes a bunch of completely different breeds that all originated for different reasons) used to be viewed as America's most beloved dogs! They were WW1 heroes, beloved family pets, and even the most common dogs used in advertising in the beginning of the 20th century. They were the every man's dog! But eventually towards the 70s, there grew to be a massive media push to label these dogs as innately aggressive murderers. Why the change? Well, lots of reasons, but it's not actually because they are all killers or evil dogs! In fact, almost all veterinarians and the CDC agree that banning pitbulls doesnt even reduce incidence of dog bites at all! Fascinating stuff!
I don't have the time to rewrite their entire history, but I do hope this was enough to pique your interest and maybe you'll give a few chapters of the book a chance! Even if you still hate pitbulls, it's a very interesting and compelling read on their history, and breaks down all the reasons why they fell out of favor in the public eye. I love dogs and thought I knew a lot about them and I was truly surprised by all the info!
Edward E. Baptist's The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism is a good work with a lot of research on how the growing credit/finance industry in the 19th century basically was cycling equity from southern slaves into northern production, and the industrialization of the north was concurrent with the industrialization of slavery in the south as part of a single economic cycle.
It's a wonderful work to demonstrate that even if the North had no direct slavery, the entire United States rise to economic superpower was very closely tied to the productivity of slavery
I suggest you read this book:
https://www.amazon.com/Half-Has-Never-Been-Told/dp/0465049664/ref=nodl_
TLDR. If the Northern States think they were morally clean, they are wrong. The North financed and actively profited from slavery.
Right here.
Battle Cry of Freedom might be worth a read, a hefty tome that covers the war from historical origins through reconstruction, one of my required readings for my history degree way back when.
To understand the last paragraph and how it relates, check these two books out:
-The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism
That we can't point to any entertainer with a deal that Joe is asking for is an indictment of Spotify, not Joe. Spotify is exploitative because much of Spotify's value comes from it monetizing other people's passion, time and sweat. It is practicing American capitalism.
Without realizing it, Joe is attacking the very foundation of America. He is right about it being oppression. While he does not go into underlying arguments that make him right and correct, Joe is banging away at something that can change the game for a lot of creators. I just laugh because he accidentally stumbled into the fight that all people who work should be having.
Newport papi is trying to lead the listeners to the promise land. But too many of them are so steeped in the game on the terms of the masters that they can't see that they are in chains.
As an aside, I understand why Joe is ranting against Charlamagne. Charlamagne is Samuel L Jackson from Django. He is the dude that would go tell massa that there is a rebellion brewing in the fields because slavery ending would ruin Charlamage's good position within the system.
Actually, your comment sparked an idea and I found the perfect gift for him: An Unfinished Revolution: Karl Marx and Abraham Lincoln
EDIT: Actually this one's probably better.
“Lincoln had a cabinet of yes men”— Ha Ha…he had quite a mix of political rivals occupying many of the most prominent post. If someone only sat down and wrote a book on that topic. Oh that’s right, someone did….
https://www.amazon.com/Team-Rivals-Political-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/0743270754
You know not of what you speak. Marx and Lincoln exchanged letters to each other for Christ’s sake…
> Dude, they left because they wanted continue owning slaves. It's explicitly stated in the first paragraph of every single secession declaration with the sole exception being Texas, who mentioned it at the end of their declaration. > > Source: me, I checked a couple years ago during another one of these "debates".
here read this and then come back https://www.amazon.com/The-Real-Lincoln-Abraham-Unnecessary/dp/0761526463
The argument that they are trying to make, but seldom have the brainpower to describe in words, is:
1.) Pitbulls are disproportionately owned by by black people and maybe by hispanic people.
2.) White people can’t ban black people or hispanic people from your neighborhood
3.). If you ban the black person or hispanic person’s dog, you can keep them out of the neighborhood.
Most pit nuts don’t understand their own argument because they are just selfish and want to own killing machines, so they argue poorly. They repeat the accusation (racism) but don’t understand how it is supposed to be racist.
Additionally, pit nuts waffle between calling it a minority-owned breed and “America’s dog” or “An American Icon”. So what is it? The dog of repressed minorities? The all American dog? I don’t see how it can be both, but again, pitheads only care about endangering everyone else, the argument are just window dressing for their goal of owning a scary dog. Kinda how their dogs are harmless and wouldn’t hurt a fly, but also “protect” their owners and “make them feel safe”. Which one is it? Protector or incapable of doing harm?
I've been reading "The Impending Crisis: America Before the Civil War, 1848-1861" because of all of this stuff. Turns out, talk of secession was kept on the downlow and private until the Compromise of 1850. Then, it suddenly became increasingly more public. From what I understand, talk of secession entirely revolved around slavery. Today, there's not such a singular topic to rally around, is there?. It seems more of a general "us vs them".
His degree of earnest starry-eyed faith in the stated ideals of the Revolution and its major is truly something that beggars belief. Dude believed in the movement more than its leaders did. How do you not love a guy like that, who looks with his own eyes at the mess you are and yet only sees the best of what wish you could be? Lafayette is the OG himbo.
There's a perfect chapter two about this in the book: "Peoples-History-United-States" ...Truly fascinating in that it reveals that police actively worked as union busters.
https://www.amazon.com/Peoples-History-United-States/dp/0062397346
I promise I am not being mean or snippy in anyway, but the history of colonialism is rife with armed men murdering groups of indigenous people that had already mastered things like sustainable farming. I like thisthis book.
Lots of things feed into this. In addition to what's been said--association with poor people, racism (Brownwyn Dickey's well-received book [https://www.amazon.com/Pit-Bull-Battle-over-American/dp/0345803116] makes the racism argument explicitly), dogsbite, and Merrit Clifton, there are other issues.
No police officer ever got accolades for being bitten by a miniature poodle, lab, pug, or Jack Russell. But if he tells the guys back at the station a PIT BULL attacked him, he's a goddamned American hero. Similarly, news articles about lab or golden attacks often contain remarks like "police do not blame the dog and he has been released to his family," and often don't even mention breed, whereas a headline that says PIT BULL sells papers like WAR IN UKRAINE.
Also, in general, and especially online, there's a weird obsession with which animal could beat which in combat. Could a T-Rex beat Spinosaurus? Could a bear beat a lion? How many 5-year-olds could you beat up? In this comparison-obsessed environment, the basement-dwellers want to believe there is an unbeatable animal of every type, and so they talk up the fearsomeness of their favorite shark, spider, MMA fighter, and dog breed. And thus the rhetoric regarding pit bulls gets exaggerated from yet another source.
Is this a joke?
Lincoln is CLEARLY one of the worst three presidents.
The Real Lincoln: A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War https://www.amazon.com/dp/0761526463/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_KFESZQ0791BWSYHXB7KH
9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America: And Four Who Tried to Save Her https://www.amazon.com/dp/1621573753/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_i_JHEQA2W4PX2D0TDZJXP1?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
>no reason it can't Abraham Lincoln based his administration around it.
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>I think for to long Russia and the US have not communicated well. it has bred mistrust and now dislike. Putin had his selfish reasons for encouraging it. who would have thought I would long for the good old days of the USSR/USA level of friendship.
I highly recommend this book for a "centrist" look onto pit bulls. It's so hard to find good information out there about pit bulls; seems like everyone thinks they are either sweet angel babies or vicious killers, and there's nowhere in between. This book does a good job of looking at the truth in between the two extremes.
I'm in love with your username. 🤣
Oh man, that's such a good point about being the kids of the richest gen!
I'm not a good person to talk about not realizing everything is effed up until growing up though. I was a strange kid in that regard lol. I was reading Howard Zinn in elementary school, for example. I was fascinated by the world that people have created, very hungry to learn about it.
But there was no way to know at the time that things would go down exactly as they have, that we'd be the kids of the richest gen, that gens surpassing the prior one wouldn't continue. I love that you pointed that out. It's like...We saw what the pinnacle could bring and were like, "And so what? Why is that what's worth striving for? Why sacrifice other things for *that*?" And we did our own thing. We might've been more driven to chase that, to climb that mountain, if we hadn't already seen that the reward at the top ain't all that.
I say "we" in the broad cultural sense though. My family was broke.
>and people are too stupid to see the difference between a pitbull and a husky or Dobermann.
It's not stupidity, it's bias. People are biased against pitbulls. It predisposes them towards thinking any dog that's aggressive towards people is a pitbull.
Most dogs in existence aren't purebred. Once a dog is two generations removed from purebred, it's impossible to tell what it's mixed with, even with DNA testing.
>Can you show me a case where a dog that isn't even part pitbull was labelled as such?
Yes, check out this excellent book about the history of the breed: Pit Bull: The Battle over an American Icon https://www.amazon.com/dp/0345803116/ref=cm_sw_r_apan_glt_fabc_K3A7RKJVTEAYGJPXX9TF
It's written by a journalist. It was fact checked and had sources listed. The author gives examples of this. As well as the science behind why it's impossible to tell what mixed dog's breeds are by looking at them.
Jeez you're dense. Herding dogs bite constantly if it's not trained out, why aren't they used as fighting dogs if that's a sign of aggression. Yet we don't see herding dogs as being inherently dangerous, its all propaganda. Just like how dobermans used to get the exact same treatment until that was shifted towards pits because people realized it's bullshit. Here's a great book on the subject if you care to enlighten yourself that is.
https://www.amazon.com/Unfinished-Revolution-Karl-Abraham-Lincoln/dp/1844677222
Lincoln was very aware of Karl Marx. Always has been.
I bought his book about LaFayette I think after someone in here recommended it, but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet
""The goal was to have rational people who disagree come to a compromise""
In between then and now there was some other stuff going on. What kind of rational people? You world view is skewed so you can't actually see it any other way. I get it.
try reading this
I'm sure you found this book. I haven't read it personally since I'm not an American and I have a million others I want to get to first. I'm not knowledgeable on this.
This book does a pretty good job arguing that:
-discerning what is and is not a pitbull from site alone is pretty foolhardy
-pitbulls are statistically significantly dangerous because they are popular. If some other breed was used as protection by the same people who should not own pit bulls, that breed would likely be responsible for the same amount of harm.
-pit Bull bans are effectively a racist tool used to fuck with people deemed undesirable to law enforcement. Like the war on drugs or 20 other policies from bygone eras. No people in gated communities are getting their ALC registered pits taken and put down.
https://www.amazon.com/Pit-Bull-Battle-over-American/dp/0345803116
Battle Cry of Freedom by James Mcpherson was a great introduction for me. It's long but easy to read. The first chapter was a little dry, but after that it flowed well and was consistently interesting. It won a Pulitzer for a reason.