Duncan R.M. Johnson

[Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry @pegobry_en]

TIL several future commanders of the French Royalist Army during the French Revolution first distinguished themselves during the American War of Independence.

[aqn @aqn_purple2]

よく「日本はアメリカの植民地」って言われてるけど、植民地の待遇がそんなに美味しかったならどこの国もこぞって「我が国を植民地にしてください」って土下座するだろ。

[Railfan Reborn @2026Railfan]

Still thinking about how awesome last night was

Seeing those WW2 veterans get the heroes welcome they deserved, and the biggest firework show in history, oh how I wish I could've made it to D.C.

2026 is the year of the patriot

[Hunter Ash @ArtemisConsort]

But it’s not inevitable. Europe could, today, simply close its border, deny flights from certain countries, sink the small boats. It’s not some conservation law, it’s a policy choice.

[Duncan R.M. Johnson @DrMethos]

@dead1337 @PubWanghaf Pretty good!

[Pub @PubWanghaf]

This was never in the Left’s playbook. They’re rattled. It’s a disaster for them

[Duncan R.M. Johnson @DrMethos]

@f_reading_only @heisei_ramen American here, I think I speak for most when we say we do.

[Squiggles @heisei_ramen]

I gripe a lot about the occupation, but in honor of today, I want to bring up what America did for Japan 15 years ago.

Within hours of the 2011 quake and ☢️ threat, THOUSANDS of American Marines, CB’s, engineers and rangers were deploying to the heart of the disaster zone, repairing airstrips within hours, running aid convoys, diving under collapsing buildings and swimming through flood zones with possible live power shorts to rescue stranded Japanese children. They insisted on staying for months to help stand up disaster relief and distribute literal mountains of food aid from America. Japanese emergency services would ask for volunteers for hazardous jobs and Americans would literally JUMP in front of Japanese people, demanding to help however they could. Apparently almost all of the servicemen who participated were volunteers. No one who lived through the quake or those hellish months afterwards is ever likely to forget just how much American men and women put their muscles and necks on the line when a friend was in trouble.

I rag a lot on America, but I hope that Americans never forget just how special they are when the cards hit the table. The people of northeast Japan sure don’t.

Here’s to 250 years of one of the most weird and wonderful countries on Earth. May you rise to meet your challenges as much as you did Japan’s on that day in 2011. ❤️🇺🇸

[Endeavour @RoyalEndeavour]

If cities full of skyscrapers really are necessary, there's no reason they can't look like this.

[Become A Saint @BeSaintly]

>excommunicates people
>takes two weeks of PTO

[The Collin-Cave🦇✝ @writercollin]

Today's kino finished. IMO better than Braveheart, it's still a lot of fiction but I think it's less obtuse about it. Obviously the British are turned into caricature. I think what makes this one work best however was Ledger's role as Gabriel Martin, him and his father form such a great emotional core, but the message on sacrifice for liberty is not lost.

Yes. There are inaccuracies. But I think the portrayal of cost is not one of them, and the most important takeaway from this film. It's an American classic.

[Paul @WomanDefiner]

The patriot front issue is a great example of 50% of the right being functionally useless because they are stuck in the leftist moral framework.

Spending more time attacking people they mostly agree with than antifa. None of these people ever try to dox anarchist attacking federal facilities but Patriot Front peacefully marching? That's a step too far for them.

[Trad West @trad_west_]

When beauty is treated as optional, ugly becomes the norm.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

So in Scotland they're handing out rape alarms and bleed kits to schools now

Children shouldn't have to live like this

[Marshal Bohemond ⚔️⛨ | Space Crusader Vtuber @HMBohemond]

The reason you see so many films of the late 90's, 2000's, and 2010's be looked back on as actually good has nothing to do with films being so bad today that bad films from back then now look good.

That era gave rise to the kind of film critic who hates a film for for being genuine. The kind of critic who masturbates millennial writing, Marvel humor, political proselytizing, and deconstruction. Their words influenced writers who took their 'criticisms' to heart because they're the kind of people embarrassed by sincerity in fiction and want to preach politics rather than write stories.

There are still people are still too embarrassed to admit those 'bad movies' were actually good because they fear backlash for saying so. But many now look back at that era, and realize how wrong they were.

[Templarpilled @Templarpilled]

Elon rn:

[Duncan R.M. Johnson @DrMethos]

@PAEasy64 TBF what could the very young Republic at that time do, especially when a decent chunk of it support the French Revolution (at least before the Reign of Terror and Quasi War)?

[MB @PAEasy64]

Just a reminder
Without this man, America wouldn’t exist
We did nothing to save him and his family from being murdered. He should be honored by every single American.

[Duncan R.M. Johnson @DrMethos]

@jkimballcook Gotta give some love to the boys from my state, General Israel Putnam and Governor Jonathan Trumbull, one of the only or few Colonial Governors to openly support and back the Patriot cause.