ronmayer.bsky.social
Washington DC. Transit, Bikes, Rabbits,World & US History
👤 Joined on 15 November 2024
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@ronmayer.bsky.socialSlavecatchers then, ICE today! Today is the 167th anniversary of the raid on Harper's Ferry. John Brown led a 22 man group to seize the federal armory hoping to spark an armed revolt against the racist slavocracy. The raid wasn't a success, but a flashpoint in the larger abolitionist movement.
Show PostIn their design of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom (1786), Jefferson and Madison declined to make Christian belief a requirement to hold office, and explicitly said that if a Muslim could get elected, there should be no barrier to their holding office.
Show PostThere are so, so many verified diaries of white Union soldiers at the beginning of the war saying "I don't know about this, I condemn the deplorable violence" and then they get down there and see slavery with their own eyes and immediately go "John Brown was right we gotta kill these motherfuckers"
Show Postit is very funny to me that we libs have become the pocket constitution party now
Show PostI’d buy an abandoned apartment building and fill it with plumbing systems designed in accordance with German or Dutch building standards (highly illegal in the US) and run experiments to demonstrate superior performance. I’d pay for flights/hotels to bring every inspector in the country to see it.
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