@Gaismair Three dorks who set the cause of democracy back by decades
Funny story, when annotating a packet for APUSH I found Clay's name listed in a event that happened in the late 1840s, circled it, and wrote "How old is this guy?". My teacher gave me a singular EC point for it
@BluebriarArts What makes the US a highly unique nation is that we HAVE a dirty past, and that we have constantly strived for better, not that we were perfect from the start. The point of the Dream is as something for the nation to strive for, our founding principles
@of_greatne42673 I’d argue the first one (Ironically the one written by an old white Christian conservative) is the least racist. Gotta realize that word was just genuine slang in 50s England. (Evidence below)
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@BygoneBritain Its incredible how miserable and gloomy everything in England looked post war, even in the depths of the depression most of the heavy freight locomotives would've been a bright polished black (Same class of engine pictured below in the mid-30s)
@AntipodeEmpire My Grandfather (A Christian from Lebanon) lived through the second Levant Campaign. Australians helped liberate Lebanon from French colonial rule in WWII - It's why they have such a large base in immigrants there
@WissingerJean@BuckRight Also, that "American" type that was common in Disney cartoons... Because Walt had nostalgia for his country, and those types were common in the 1850s-1890s (When he grew up, his Uncle worked trains). They were there for the exact opposite reason as "resetting". Fuckin larpers
@WissingerJean@BuckRight What are you on about?
Disney was a rail enthusiast, and all three of these locomotives were built in America. The far right one was the first American locomotive. American companies built so many of the middle one it was called a "American" type.