Howdy

Y'all cowpokes havin' a hog-killin' time or what?

One way to help end a war is to gather by the thousands in public parks and burn your draft cards in piles

The whole world is watching!

I work at Lapelle's factory

I'm a printer!

Oh

I didn't know you were asking someone else

Sometimes, I forget to look at the previous messages

Hey

I know how to ride a horse without throwing myself off...

and I didn't take it as so

I can't tell when people are and aren't joking

We'll drive them Yankee tyrants off our cotton fields if Stonewall and Stuart have to take it all the way from sweet home Virginia to the far off western territories

Hoorah for the Confederacy!

Ain't it great to be in the land of cotton?

Yee-haw fer Dixie's land!

Cleanin' me some dirty Doodles out of Shenandoah, tonight

Helping to clear the route for Ashby's cavalry so they can help Stonewall beat out Banks

We'll giv'im hell for Grant's shell and free our states from Federal oppression!

Yeeeeeeeeeeeeee-haw!

Howdy, pilgrim

You here for the square dance?

...or here to fight you up some Yankees

Any Russian who supports Dixie's struggle is alright by me

Dixie is a land

A united land

Under our Bonnie Blue Flag

Against the Federal northern oppressors led by Lincoln and Grant

Stop what?

@JackKilL I'm actually just making a joke

Unfunny American Civil War memes

It's what I do to make up for my nonexistent social skills

I forget that foreigners don't always get the references. Not out to actually fight anyone.

Indeed

So... You said something about being a Soviet?

Which SSR?

Russian

I would make jokes about the Red Scare and communist spies, but I don't want to get myself in trouble

I think Russia is cool

The only reason there is any major animosity between the Russians and the Americans is because of imperial competition

Otherwise, neither country has much of a reason to dislike the other

If our governments knew how to stay out of opportunistic imperial wars, there'd be no Cold War

Imperialism is no longer a force of any good in this world

It lost that after the war

The French built Viet Nam from nothing, and got money out of it because they put so much into it

Developed Hanoi, Saigon...

They went with authority without obligation

The Viet Nam War ended in 1954

After that, we funded and eventually joined a second war

Only we went in out of pure opportunism

And the Americans who occupied Viet Nam were either drafted or tricked by unpatriotic windbag politicians who take money from defense contractors to corrupt our government offices.

Obligation without authority

LBJ took advantage of the Military-Industrial Complex to line his pockets

And Robert McNamara was a dumbass.

whiz kid my ass, man

It's a far out subject

Deserves commentary

I watched him mostly between 2012 and 2015

I came back and began watching him again

So, five years, three active

You're better off with a Russian-language channel until you learn more fluent English

Then maybe move over to both

Take things with time, but take them

I suggest getting some form of classical education on the subject of English

I went to school, as well

And I do know some Italian and French

But I do not sound fluent because I did not attend school in a country where those languages are natively spoken or taught

I am more educated in English because it is my native language

The one I use to communicate in my day to day

I learned English well because my country is an English-speaking country

Same with you and the Russian language

You can learn English better with time

Joseph Conrad was one of the greatest novelists to write in the English language, and English was his third language

Behind Polish and... I think French

English is fun

Conrad liked it because he found it to give more freedom in writing

Could bend words farther than he could in his other languages

Ring, ring de banjo, I like that good ol' song!

The folks up north will see me no more when I get to that Swanee shore!

@Repzion Wouldn't it be less redundant to just use the "@ everyone" tag instead of typing out the word, then using it?

It doesn't, it's just a detail.

Use of language

Don't take it the wrong way, it's just a little sidenote.

Any sense of contention you may detect behind my words is not there.

I just have an orient for little details

^

Also, why does Rep refer to himself in the third person in the rules?

Maybe

I guess that would make sense

To the victor go the ashes of the spoils...

All the brave are in the grave

Know what time it is?

I do

Any other fellow alien shapeshifters here?

That's unfortunate

I was hoping to start a hivemind

Maybe take over the Earth

That's why it has so many resources to drain

To feed the Cezolfoximotio Empire