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If John Brown is remembered for one thing it would definitely be his nuanced both sides view of oppression
He was also a friend to his Native neighbors and a fond reader of Napoleon and Oliver Cromwell histories. Even setting aside his armed rebellion and Bleeding Kansas, the guy was never much of a pacifist and hardly one to shy away from extremism or his belief in the righteousness of working people.
This guy couldn’t hit the broad side of a barn with a punt gun
“Modern John Brown would be Pete Buttigieg” is like some type of perverse blasphemy I don’t quite know how to digest. These tweets are genuine evil.
John Brown started my path towards being a Communist
I read what he did, how he so strongly understood the evil of slavery that he went out and did something about it, and that resonated with me
Of course, the people who would tell me, “Oh, he had the right idea, but he shouldn’t have killed people” only strengthened my respect for him, because I knew they were just the same mealy-mouthed cowards who would said they stood against slavery but would do nothing to actually dismantle the system that permitted it
It is genuinely one of the most disrespectful things I’ve ever heard said about the man.
Truly perverted shit
John Brown didn’t conditionally advocate for people in bondage if they were christian, this person is completely thoughtless.
John Brown was really religious–>really religious people hate non-believers (which isn’t even generally true) but it’s demonstrably untrue in Brown’s case with even a cursory knowledge of his life
I posted this further up but John Ingersoll was the most famous atheist of the day and a friend of Brown and said this
But the real pioneer in America was old John Brown. Moved not by prejudice, not by love of his blood, or his color, but by an infinite love of Liberty, of Right, of justice, almost single- handed, he attacked the monster, with thirty million people against him. His head was wrong. He miscalculated his forces; but his heart was right. He struck the sublimest blow of the age for freedom. It was said of him that he stepped from the gallows to the throne of God. It was said that he had made the scaffold to Liberty what Christ had made the cross to Christianity.
Ah yes, of everyone in society to hate, it would be the communists for atheism and not the monstrous war machine that scours a million lives a decade and robs the global South of its resources every time its gaze falls upon a poor, barely defend brown country like the eye of Sauron. Yes, I’m sure he’d be an insufferable terminally online social media lib, rather than the one who shoots the insufferable terminally online social media lib.
This is what happens when literally the only thing you know about John Brown was he was against slavery
communists are atheists
“Finance imperialists are soulless and satanic, every church is just a temporarily embarrassed Jeffrey Epstein pagan temple” this is atheism, I am very smart!
nice one lol
John Brown would be jerking it to Cuba
Lol not only did Marx and Brown coexisted in the same time period, but Brown has expressed his interest in socialism and anti capitalism. Does this loser think every slave Brown worked with was a devout Christian?
Lenin would have said “tighten the interest rates because the economy needs healthy bank reserves” if you ask me.
But we already had a modern attempt at John Brown :
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Holy shit John Brown himself was so fucking sick of hearing this exact argument made about slavery he killed slavers with a giant sword.
“Kill all slaveowners but also nuance is important” -Settler John Brown
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God” – Jesus Christ
“I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” – John Brown
Clearly, we can all see the parallels.
“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they are the children of God” – Jesus Christ
“I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood.” – John Brown
Clearly, we can all see the parallels.
I don’t know about parallels but this certainly reads like a before and after.
It’s actually a misquote. He said “can never be purged away but with votes.”
If you’re a John Brown stan, you can’t complain about Hamas being religious extremists. After all, John Brown was a religious extremist.
John Brown would have shot this man.
“Owen, get the broadswords”
I’m taking the middle ground! I just want peace!
repeats pro Israel taking points non stop
JUST RELEASE THE HOSTAGES!
bombs every corner of Gaza that might be hiding hostages
I’ve seen more than a few pro-Israeli comments say “if they stole your mom and siblings would you call for a ceasefire?? Wouldn’t you want the most severe reaction from Israel?” Like what the fuck, no, if my family is held hostage please stop shooting and bombing everyone! I haven’t seen any real person make this argument, it seems like desperate propaganda that is clearly failing.
I saw the second interview between Piers and Bassem Yousef and when Bassem asked if the government should destroy the empire state building if it had terrorists inside and Piers was like “Well that’s the question isn’t it”
Israel has literally driven people to insanity.
Also apparently an Israeli politician has already said that they can’t fear for the hostages and disregard their soldiers’ lives.
That is wild, for a conflict that doesn’t have a direct impact on average Americans I am surprised how far some supporters of Israel will admit they will go. This almost seems like a conflict that people could fight over in the US, from the seriousness I’ve seen people talk about it, even if all major politicians of both parties support Israel. There is just such extreme propaganda pushing the Israeli position, and people opposed to Israel have been seeing endless murder for decades (paid for in part by US taxes) and desperately want to end it.
It was on the first or second day after Oct 7th that I saw an IDF spokesperson saying “the hostages are already killed, Hamas had no intention of releasing them.” This was a clear signal they were not even going to try to save them. And then later when it comes out that someone like the German-Israeli woman at the music festival was killed, people will be like “oh Hamas how could you!” When it was likely she was killed by IDF bombing.
Well that’s just an admission that soldier lives are more valuable than civilian lives. Not surprising coming from the only faction in this conflict actually confirmed to use human shields with evidence.
thank you 9/11 hijackers for destroying the WTC that (briefly) had the 9/11 hijackers inside it
I have seen real people with that take and it’s horrifying.
They wouldn’t steal my mom and siblings because we aren’t settler colonists.
all my valor, stolenDUDE what is UP with the bad john brown account takes lately??
White people being 10 degrees left of centre in matters of history, and 90 degrees to the right in events that are currently taking place. Scratch a liberal and all that.
“There are good slavemasters and bad slaves so I agree with both sides. How about we try a humanitarian pause where all the slaves are freed 4 hours a day?” - John Brown
a radical liberal with…an interest in economics
“I, John Brown am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with
blood.careful manipulation of interest rates” – Modern John Brown apparently(damn, that hurt to type…)
Slavery is none other than the most barbarous, unprovoked and unjustifiable war of one portion of its citizens against another portion, the only conditions of which are perpetual imprisonment and hopeless servitude, or absolute extermination. I, John Brown, am now quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land can never be purged away but with blood.
Wait, I’m losing my twitter stan, let me start over.
I, John Brown, remain baffled that anyone who isn’t a slaver or a slave can look at this conflict and feel so strongly that one side’s cause is so just and the other’s so wicked that it demands everyone take the same, extremely strong position.
I, John Brown, remain baffled that anyone who isn’t a slaver or a slave can look at this conflict and feel so strongly that one side’s cause is so just and the other’s so wicked that it demands everyone take the same, extremely strong position.
On the one hand I can agree that slaves have had much difficulty and their situation is unbearable, but the slavemaster too is merely fighting to protect his property; this is actually a very complex issue and we don’t want to see violence enter the picture. Both sides just need to sit down and talk to each other.
-21st century lib John Brown
maybe they’re just really into john brown’s whole aesthetic but not really his politics?
This guy tried to make an argument that John Brown would support Israel because of the Bible, but the Bible also doesn’t condemn slavery and tells slaves to obey their masters, and John Brown clearly fucking disagreed with that.
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It’s a totally symmetrical conflict.
You lefties moan about Israel controlling Palestine’s water supply, but Palestine also surely controls Israel’s water supply.
Sure Israel just invaded Gaza and told people to flee north Gaza, but Palestine actually also told Israelis to flee north Israel.
Israel has stolen 77% of the mandated Palestine? Guess what, commies, Palestine has also stolen 77% of Israel.
and so on.
Hamas controls the world’s water supply as long as they want to control all rivers and all seas. Only our ponds are safe.
All the rivers and the seas - Hamas
A global caliphate under maritime law.
You think the aquifers are safe? Oh my sweet summer child…
palestinians famously never stopped building settlements in tel aviv and are the original founders of killdozers.
If this motherfucker doesnt get John Brown’s name out of his fucking mouth…
