Or he wears very high heels when he goes out and is not too used to them, walking down ramps in pumps is a bitch and Donald jacks his height up a good 3" or more with lifts and heels. I'm not says he's not fucked up and if he does have the above condition, wearing heels when he goes out and not around the WH would cause problems.
i understand he has lifts but so do many men and they don't look this way and considering he's been wearing high heels for forever, he should be used to them.
maybe it's a 286 pound guy sleeeping in his moms basement..
They will avoid it and appear to be dropping Donald. There are other elements dropping Q shit and antivaccer messages who aren't tied to Trump. They can more effectively reach fresh meat if they lose Donald, some just sow doubt, some spout antivaccer or whatever other conspiracy that adds to the noise and confuses he facts. Q drops as they call them will become more frequent too, there appears to have been an increase in the number and variety of trolls. Perhaps they are being driven off facebook and twitter, or perhaps some are just Trumpers crawling out now that Donald is done along with a few bitter enders. I'm not keen on coincident, or of the Russians bothering with RIU too much, except as a test bed or something. I'm sure they have a big list of all the social media platforms and forums and forums run by humans where things can't propagate too much are low on that list.
Lincoln was pretty much racist. We are still not good at recognizing that. He was a key figure in our history who at the outset of the war said he would not abolish slavery and only changed his mind when it became politically expedient to do so.
Do you think they even care?
I was thinking more the indigenous people of the land have the gripe with Lincoln, but can see what you mean too.
Buying property doesn't automatically include the water rights, or mineral rights
And in some cases even the land a building sits on.
“If I could save the union without freeing any slave I would do it”
I knew about mineral right seeings how a get prospectors through here every few years but no one comes looking for water lol. So are any of you guys restricted from drilling a well if you want? We just stop all development and not just the well lol.
It's complicated. Lincoln did write the Emancipation Proclamation and he was a great leader. What this country got and gets wrong is how bad our system of slavery was. Black people were treated like livestock with breeding programs, auctions, killing, beating or maiming at the discretion of the slave owner, not to mention rape. The typical life span of a black person was 20 years, half that of whites. It was illegal for a slave owner to free their slaves. There was no way for a person to buy themselves out of slavery and their children were born into it. Marriage was not recognized and families could be broken up, sold off. Generational race based chattel slavery like ours was, is almost unheard of in human history. With all of that in the background, Lincoln did not see its abolition as worthy of risking the union of the states. Lincoln was not exceptional in this regard. He wasn't better either. I'm not in the camp that we should revile his name but I can see why people might not want to have their kids attend a school that is named in honor of him. I'm not going to argue with somebody over it, it's just that I feel we should be honest about what occurred.
It's tricky business judging historical figures outside of the context of their times, but even then the evils of slavery were well known and many people were appalled by it. That's not to say that many who opposed to it were not racists at least by today's standards. Those who could reach out and overcome their conditioned biases were much more rare than they are now and most abolitionists were driven by religion. Once Lincoln actually met a black man like Fredrick Douglass his personal attitude started to rapidly evolve, he didn't shut down, but was open and empathetic. This wealthy railroad lawyer became involved with the republican party because of abolition and ended up with the 14th amendment. Was he perfect, no not by a long shot, but he was a far better man than most. Stripping away the myth, he did more good than bad and was a driving force for liberalism.
Thanks fogdog, good post. I appreciate it.
Spinning it back to today, there are worthy reasons why people might not want Lincoln's name on the school people kids attend. What you say is accurate and true. We probably need to fix some of the history books that are taught today in those same schools. It might be more important than just changing the school's name. If not for Lincoln, the union might have failed and the southern system of slavery would have continued for who know how much longer, so let's give him some credit where its due too.
Im sure you would know that lol
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