Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer

You live where you are.
-Ueli Steck

[nick usen @nickusen]

It’s fine to eat the popcorn that rises above the top of the bag before the movie starts, that’s the Baron’s Delight. But you must be weary of digging too greedily into the popcorn inside the bag before the previews even end, that is the Duke’s Lament

[Justin Spooky-Scorpion @JRRStebbins]

I hate that LEGO is one step shy of being Funko Pops now, concentrating so heavily on licensed pop culture properties aimed at adults, instead of original "generic" themes to stir the imagination of children. But I guess I'm old and this kinda stuff just doesn't sell anymore.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@ChipThoughts70 @sw_holocron Not if you tell me where it is!

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Swampist @JohnMjustwinBB Only one army has ever marched across America’s soil, capturing its citizens, and sending them into slavery in chains. Want to guess who led that army?

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Kingoftherednex @Will_Tanner_1 One side of the war was obsessed with race and racial hierarchy and it wasn’t the north.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@DillonMccameron @Will_Tanner_1 Did that make starting a war to preserve it a good idea?

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Will_Tanner_1 If America is just an aristocracy where your daddy being a very important man grants you special importance, why did we bother with the revolution he was so proud of his ancestors for fighting?

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@allEckwitty @dieworkwear That makes sense. I’m saving for one some day and happy to hear the quality is still high. Though I’d argue that the price of Frank Clegg bags compared to other luxury goods (watches, shoes, etc.) is actually very reasonable.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@allEckwitty @dieworkwear In what way?

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@reggiebblue Madison led troops in the field while president and Lincoln was within rifle range of Confederate troops during Early’s raid on Washington.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@HomerPavlos Don’t be a dunce. The Spartans absolutely loathed the nuclear family and essentially abolished it.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@TarantinoWorld Love him to death, but he was only ever good with Tarantino.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley Are you advocating anarchism, direct democracy, or something else?

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley Yes. That’s the whole basis of representative government. The question of how we don’t decide to live in the country we’re born in is mildly fascinating but I struggle to imagine a system where every citizen has to affirmatively elect to accept all the nation’s laws.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley I’ll admit I only skimmed this, but Spooner seems laughable. It boils down to “I don’t have to follow laws that were created in the past.” That’s an insane, unworkable system of government.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley That doesn’t mean that laws are just optional. A nation where each state can leave for any reason is no nation at all. Secessionists were actually rebelling against the idea of consent of the governed. That consent is a collective consent.

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley States had voluntary consent when they joined the union. Not after

[Cousin Greg's Watch Dealer @PeterCaramella]

@Jackson90771 @porterstansb @johnsmith3433 @jlmotley So the only way to leave the Inited States is revolution. That’s what secession was. And revolutions are judged by history on their merits. Some look bad and some look good. Revolting to keep slaves looks bad.