If someone appears to be repeatedly personal, lean towards patience as they might not mean offense. If you are sure, however, then do not deepen the problem by being negative; instead, simply place them on ignore by clicking the unhappy yellow face to the right of their name.
- Manlobbi
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Pete Hegseth and His ‘Battle Cry’ for a New Christian Crusade
The veteran picked to lead the Defense Department has praised the brutal religious military campaigns of the past and has called for a Christian approach to governing.
“Voting is a weapon, but it’s not enough,” he wrote in a book, “American Crusade,” published in May 2020. “We don’t want to fight, but, like our fellow Christians one thousand years ago, we must.”
In Tennessee, the Hegseth family joined Pilgrim Hill Reformed Fellowship, a small church opened in 2021 as part of the growing Communion of Reformed Evangelical Churches. The denomination was co-founded by Doug Wilson, a pastor based in Moscow, Idaho.
In his writings, Mr. Wilson has argued that slavery “produced in the South a genuine affection between the races,” that homosexuality should be a crime and that the 19th amendment guaranteeing women the right to vote was a mistake. He has written that women should not ordinarily hold political office because “the Bible does say that when feminine leadership is common, it should be reckoned not as a blessing but as a curse.”
Trump sees someone on FOX 'news' and thinks they 'look good on TV'. And that is all it takes. What a moron.
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slavery “produced in the South a genuine affection between the races,”This is from the BS Lost Cause history. It took the South some 35-40 years to go from
slavery is a necessary evil to - see bolded below
There are six main parts of the Lost Cause myth, the first and most important of which is that secession had little or nothing to do with the institution of slavery.
Second, slavery was portrayed as a positive good; submissive, happy, and faithful slaves were better off in the system of chattel slavery which offered them protection.Second, slavery was portrayed as a positive good; submissive, happy, and faithful slaves were better off in the system of chattel slavery which offered them protection.
The third tenet states that the Confederacy was only defeated because of the Northern states’ numerical advantage in both men and resources.
Fourth, Confederate soldiers are portrayed as heroic, gallant, and saintly.
Fifth, Robert E. Lee emerged as the most sanctified figure in Lost Cause lore, especially after his death in 1870.
Finally, Southern women also steadfastly supported the cause.
https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/lost-c...
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The third tenet states that the Confederacy was only defeated because of the Northern states’ numerical advantage in both men and resources.
Isn't that pretty much how all wars are won and lost?
To win a war, you must have more men or more resources. Preferably both.
--Peter
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There are six main parts of the Lost Cause myth, the first and most important of which is that secession had little or nothing to do with the institution of slavery.
Such utter bullshit! And anyone who reads the history of the era has to know this. But the lie that the Civil War was only about states rights has been repeated endlessly. And I've had people tell me that if the war had not occurred slavery would have disappeared (magically?) peacefully. BS. The 'chivalry' (landed, slave-holding plantation owners) of the south were committed to slavery with every fiber of their being.
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Isn't that pretty much how all wars are won and lost?
To win a war, you must have more men or more resources. Preferably both.
Not necessarily. You could have “luck”, for instance. It’s well known that the invincible Spanish Armada was laid low by weather: storms in the English Channel forced them to go north where they encountered even worse storms, resulting in much of the fleet being shipwrecked on the rocks of Scotland. And thus ended much of the Spanish domination of the continent and paved the way for the English to settle America.
Weather has often played a large part. The Normandy Invasion was helped immeasurably by storms coming in which convinced German Generals to chillax, with Rommel opting to leave his coastal position for his wife’s birthday party in Paris (I think), which many analysts believe led to many hours of directionless German defense and allowed the Allies to gain important beachheads.
And then there’s just stupidity from your opponent: Germany soldiers were told to hold up on their invasion of Russia halfway to Moscow, resulting in them being unprepared for the Soviet Winter which arguably did as much damage to them as any Russian military endeavor. Or the French Generals in WWI having no plan to defeat the Germans except (as Churchill exclaimed) “using our young soldiers’ chests to stop machine gun bullets.”
It was luck that the US aircraft carriers were out of port on December 7, 1941, and stupidity that the Japanese didn’t launch a third planned wave of attacks on Pearl Harbor, which would have decimated the repair facilities and fuel store depots on another part of the island - but Yamamoto decided the first two waves had inflicted enough damage and he didn’t want to push his luck. As it turns out it would have been a cakewalk with nearly all US defenses obliterated, and having the repair facilities and fuel depots intact allowed the US to rebound far more quickly and changed the trajectory of the Pacific theater.
Whoops, got carried away there. But yes, men and resources are important, but not necessarily determinative. What’s that they say? “No war plan survives the first contact with the enemy.” Shit happens.
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hegseth is now thumping a 'redemption song', stamped by...Doug Wilson.
MAGA cheers.
idiots all the way down.
has trump put his few hours of personal effort in? hegseth soon joining gaetz on the trashpile.
serious mistake by Dems to play along w/ this 'next worst' game.
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Isn't that pretty much how all wars are won and lost?
To win a war, you must have more men or more resources. Preferably both.
Strategy too. The Lost Cause minimizes any military accomplishments by the North. The southern Generals were brilliant and saintly while the Northern Generals were butchers.
At Gettysburg Lee right sized his supply wagon trains from 35 down to 27 because of the long distance. This meant less artillery ammunition. He also didn't use spotters for his artillery. So the artillery fire before Picket's charge was too few and the wrong type of shells, and they overshot the Union lines.
The South was fielding large armies. The problems they had with food were because military supplies were not given priority on trains, etc.
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I love the "the Civil War was only about states rights" argument.
What states right was it that the Confederate States wanted? Oh, yes the right to enslave people.
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I love the "the Civil War was only about states rights" argument.
What states right was it that the Confederate States wanted? Oh, yes the right to enslave people.
Such is the fiction promulgated by the Lost Cause advocates who butchered U.S.history in the turn of tbe century south.
Lest there be any conceivable doubt as to the primary reason that southern states seceded, the plain truth is evident in the primary reason listed in each state’s articles or ordinances of secession. In every instance, the primary reason given is the threat posed by the newly elected Lincoln to the institution of slavery.
