And truth be told, a lot of mainstream positions are correct because they've been formulated through ongoing dialogue between groups of people that have lasted centuries.

Wonderful, thank you for the help gents.

So to no longer be constrained by those things is dangerous if you don't know yourself (which most people do not.)

I hope I have actually been helpful. I know my answers are long, but they need to be, I think. Because that's a hell of a question.

Yeah you're telling me

You solved 4 hours of research and note reviewing in 20 minutes

Much obliged gents. Good night.

'Night.

Night eh

kind of related to history

Georgia if State Legislatures still voted for Senators (done by myself)

Whelp, looks like Shakespeare is next on the chopping block.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/woke-teachers-want-shakespeare-canceled-about-white-supremacy-and-colonization

as much as i hate English class,

this is too much

So I was looking at the hate that Sherman get's from Southerners, and I gotta point out here:

Most Generals who refuse to get political are demonized, and Sherman is no different. Eisenhower is beloved, Patton is hated, even though Eisenhower's achievements were mostly political achievements in cementing the alliance between the world powers.

Sherman was a man with an Iron stomach who knew what needed to be done in order to bring the war to a close quickly.

Honest to god, I think that if we'd had Sherman running the war in Korea, we would have won flat-out, not simply forced a stalemate.

*Slaps nuke order 3,000 times*

^*repeat*

Can someone tell me about a very obscure person from history who really needed to be president?

Hold on, I'm searching.

James S. Sherman, related by blood to William Tecumseh Sherman, defender of the Gold Standard, and chairman of the "committee of the whole" which could only be entrusted to those of *supreme integrity* (according to one Henry Cabbot Lodge). He was a natural diplomat who made things around him run smoothly, earning him the nickname of "Sunny Jim". He would be the one to reach a compromise without letting go of his core principles. Sadly, he died of Bright's disease.

https://web.archive.org/web/20160305194609/http://www.fofweb.com/History/HistRefMain.asp?SID=2&NoSearch=1&SingleRecord=&iPin=vpr027&DatabaseName=American%20History%20Online&AmericanData=&WomenData=&IndianData=&AFHCData=&WorldData=&AncientData=&GovernmentData=

Would have been a much better president than Woodrow Wilson, who began our disastrous policy of becoming the "World Police."

The hate we southerners give Sherman has no relation to his political stances, moreso has to do with how he destroyed the homes and livelyhood of innocent people, and his own men "relieving" themselves with any of the women that stayed behind while he (Sherman) did nothing to stop it

Dude was frankly a coward doin shit and allowin shit like that

And frankly, his march to the sea did nothing but solidify the South, rather than strike whole hearted fear into it like he wanted to

Only reason Robert E. Lee surrendered was due to an inherent character flaw in him. He cares too much about the lives of his soldiers and the lives of the enemy, had no influence with what Sherman did

Which, while having a character flaw like that can be beneficial with winning a battle or keeping casualties low on your side, can only be detrimental when put into a dire situation

And which, he allowed himself to be put in a situation like that when he allowed himself to be surrounded at Appomattox

And Robert E. Lee gets flak from Southerners for pulling that stunt as well

So it has nothing to do with either persons political stances, all has to do with their actions

If you want proof of how politics have nothing on why, just look at ol Lee himself. Dude was the most vocal Confederate who was anti-slavery, and the dude is loved by soldiers then and Southerners now

Okay, I recognize his face just I don't remember the name.

An Austrian general of some sorts?

Okay, I looked it up and he is Franz Joseph 1 of Austria.

Ah

You know because of the beard my first assumption was Chester A. Arthur

he kinda looks like Otto van Bismarck

He kinda does.

@Zilla Sherman did far more than destroy people's livelihoods. Georgia was home to the Confederacy's transportation hubs like Atlanta and Savannah, so he absolutely destroyed far more than just plantations and random businesses. It was total war and definitely did lead to the eventual collapse of the Confederacy.