@04nbod@FurkanGozukara Look it up. The people of Constantinople considered themselves Roman. They spoke Greek. But it’s immaterial to the point. The Turks aren’t giving Istanbul to the Greeks or the Romans 😂
@SamMonsonNFL In this day and age, you have to give a football player grace to step away…especially due to mental health issues. We know too much about CTE.
@annlillianbond@appyobliged The Scottish came as a cohesive populace and were transplanted. They then developed a distinctive culture that differs from Scottish society. The distinction is explanatory
@annlillianbond@appyobliged Scots were colonized by the English to populate Ulster in Northern Ireland in the 1600s. They form the Protestant basis of Northern Ireland. Some migrated from Ulster to the US in the 18th century …largely to Appalachia and the south
@appyobliged The vast majority of Irish immigration occurred in the mid 19th century as a result of the potato famine. You’re well out of your depth if you think ‘America was already built’ by then. It was largely rural with an unsettled west.
@stephenehorn Independent North Carolina journalist sentenced in J6 case. That you whack job? I can tell you one thing my ancestors didn’t do: invade the capital building.
@stephenehorn My great great grandfather was 1st gen Irish, a decorated civil war veteran, thead of the Grand Army of The Republic in MA and second in command nationally, served as fire commissioner of Boston, seres in the legislature and ran an iron foundry. This was not a rarity. Get a life
@PorcellianView@stephenehorn If the skilled labor isn’t enough, who then ? The political leadership? Often Irish. Who designed the city plan of SF? Jasper O’Farrell. Leaving all that aside. It’s amusing to see odd balls like yourself cut out the Irish and Italians from the American story. Who is left?
@jessesingal It’s very strange. He’s become Mac Jones 2.0. We will see . But after Sam darnold and baker mayfield and geno smith, you can’t give up on an elite qb too soon.
@jemelehill If slavery were truly an inextricable part of American prosperity, one would expect that the US would have seen its economic power ebb after 1865. Instead, in the ensuing 50 years the US became the largest economy in the world and its wealth grew exponentially.