yeah because of the descendants of slaves that should have been shipped home

couldn’t let abe do that now, huh?

Grant wanted to send the slaves away too.

Abe was too busy obliterating states' rights.

Grant said if he'd known he was fighting to free the slaves, he'd have joined the Confederacy.

He tried to buy the Dominican Republic in 1869 to send the freed slaves there, but Radical Republicans in Congress blocked him.

Did Grant really say that? Wow.

https://www.macleans.ca/news/world/the-terrifying-depths-of-donald-trumps-ignorance-in-a-single-quote/

^What does everyone think of this article?

It is incredibly slimy. It buries what Trump actually said deep into the article and it misconstrues it as well

That's the "best" of Canadian media

https://youtu.be/8qhfun_ns6g

This sounds familiar.

@Mr Strontium tbh invading Venezuela would be a blessing for the locals

There are reports of a case of Ebola in Sweden.

it's not ebola

It's scary how they REEE about POTUS not telling "the truth," they complain about his message, but their idea of the truth is genuinely frightening. If they want a POTUS who thinks and speaks like they do, then they want a pathological liar, a big-statist oppressive monster who never does what the people want him to, only what the media and Harvard/Yale grad polsci and econ grads tell him to.

yeah

somebody reading the teleprompter instead of trying to fix things

The mom of the murdered daughter claimed it was an evil white racist to drum up hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations and publicity. Turns out it was a black guy who did it for gang reasons.

holy shit

i fucking knew it

One hundred years ago today, Theodore Roosevelt passed away in his sleep. Press F to pay respects.

F

Theodore Roosevelt as a young man.

i'm 30 today you cuntz!

Happy Birthday!

Congratulations. You survived your 20's!

https://twitter.com/alialexanderorg/status/1082281047356788736 https://twitter.com/Jevaughn_Brown/status/1082279508961624065 https://www.pscp.tv/AliScopes/1dRKZORgmPaGB

@REEDSEEJBAMBAM happy birthday

@MerricBrady thanks broham

What do people here think of the idea that countries need to become multiethnic and mutt-nations, that social preference is "the melting pot". Lots of breeding, mixing, cultural exchange will lead to a much more prosperous world, and the idea of keeping ethnic national states is myopic and doomed?

rome did it and look what happened

Yeah, historically peoples that lost their will to defend themselves fell and were overtaken. Humanity is tribal and no ideology will effectively destroy that.

TIL that Angela Merkel won her first election on an anti-immigration platform. Seriously.

I was arguing with someone in Aydin Paladin's Discord that says "Ethnocentric nationalist viewpoint is myopically doomed. I'm not opposed to nationalism in general, just the poison of ethnocentric nationalism. Viewed hierarchically, ethnicity should be considered secondary to nationality. I'm not found of the melting pot analogy either: implies a homogeneity that is disfavored. The idea of goulash is preferential: leaves room for a measure of cultural uniqueness, while making space for appropriation in the broth. Chris Stirewalt's Every Man a King summarized this nicely. There is some value in Diversity for the Sake if diversity: viewing the world from a System of Systems approach, it is important to get input from the broad range of stakeholders. In some cases, that means hiring the marginalized person."

And before he also analogized society to a "stew" of different people being the most optimal