@PhantomofthePRR@Gaismair West Pointers were special breeds. They hated political interference with the army. McClellan held a disdain for it since the Mexican War. Lincoln interfering also harmed Mac (see: withholding Hooker's Corps during the start of the Peninsula Campaign, suspending recruitment, &c.)
@PhantomofthePRR@Gaismair Well, that's because you're reading McPherson. One of McClellan's biggest critics. He, as well as Sears, have done an unjust number on the reputation of Mr. McClellan.
McClellan wasn't perfectly chummy with Lincoln, but you also must realize that he was a West Pointer.
@MountainGenera From black history? Okay, but this will be hard...
The Irish Potato Famine ravaged the island of Ireland in the 1840's. This is because the Irish - who are spiritually African - were too retarded to farm anything but potatoes.
@JohnBry08408500@ArmedJ0y Yeah, I watched. Issue is, it is hard to discern when exactly he dropped the gun -- whether as reflex to the first officer shooting or slightly before. In either case, he held onto it far too long.
@ArmedJ0y The man involved was told to "Stop" and drop the gun. He refused to comply and, only knowing that he shot someone and was actively running into a building, Colorado police responded as they should have.
It was self-defense on the one end, and a lawful-shoot on the officer's end.
@ArmedJ0y Yeah, this is a bad take.
Legitimate self-defense use? Yes.
Legitimate shooting on the side of the police? Also, yes.
They showed up to the scene of a shooting and were only told that someone was shot and the shooter was in a building.
@Zoomer_South If you want to talk about diversity in fighting for the Confederacy, look to the Irish, the Germans, and the English fighting under the Southern banner(s).
@Zoomer_South there was a month left of the war. Even looking at the Louisiana Home Guard and the Creoles within, they were rejected from Confederate service, re-mustered by the State of Louisiana, and ended up serving under Butler in the Corps d'Afrique.
@LawrMoriarty @Empireaesth@FreedomL50518 Well, for a starter, he's going on about Britain and Canada (Anglican, or more broadly Protestant, nations).
"The Quebecois!" they don't count and should have been suppressed by any decent English monarch.
@aelfred_D And here I thought you were a proper racist.
You have to get into their subgroups, the Flems and the Walloons (and the Germans, but that's in one county).
@LydiaJ007 Obviously one looks at Europe and thinks, "Austria, Turkey, Spain, and Portugal?" (Austrian annexation, Turkey coming about after the Ottoman Empire, Spain and the Francoists, and Portugal and their 1911 Revolution), but I raise Japan and the Meiji Restoration as a breakage.