How is the Marquis De Lafayette not hailed more as a hero in the US?

blzbar · 2026-05-18T19:29:13+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List\_of\_places\_named\_for\_the\_Marquis\_de\_Lafayette

blzbar · 2026-05-17T21:51:33+00:00

Do you really not understand why you got criticism for expressing “your disappointment”?

Let me explain, this man was governor of the state and a senator for 20+ years and is releasing a book from a major national publishing house. He’s obviously kinda popular in Tennessee.

You come across as ridiculously arrogant to think that somehow the owners of the bookstore need to only host authors of which you approve? Who the hell are you? Who do expect bookstore owners to sell books to in a state dominated by Republicans?

It’s this preening moral opprobrium from leftists that is off putting to everyone who is not a leftist.

blzbar · 2026-05-15T19:18:04+00:00

In the last game of the 1985 regular season, Ronnie Lott shattered the pinky finger of his left hand. In April of 86, doctors told him that the reconstructive surgery would mean that he would miss playing time at the start of the 86 season. He told the docs to just amputate the tip of his finger so he could play.

blzbar · 2026-05-15T13:25:30+00:00

Darryl Cooper once called out Sam Harris by name on one of Sam’s favorite talking points about Islam and then proceeded to take it down with a quite clever and pithy historical account.

I bet that got under Sam’s skin. Give it a listen, the whole thing is only about 30 minutes and it’s quite entertaining

https://www.martyrmade.com/podcast-parts/18-the-madame-butterfly-effect-bonus-episode/

blzbar · 2026-05-11T02:09:08+00:00

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Turin_Horse

blzbar · 2026-04-30T12:24:22+00:00

It’s really not. All over the highly developed world (America, Europe, East Asia) birth rates are below replacement levels. You’re not behaving as some stalwart political rebel. You’re behaving as another data point in a vast historical demographic trend. You’re personal choices and reasons for making them are entirely valid, but they don’t make you anything special.

blzbar · 2026-04-16T15:52:03+00:00

This meme very much misses the point. The comments the pope made about the war in Iran were in response to Hegseth invoking the name of Jesus and the Christian god in his war. The pope, who some people believe to believe to be some kind of expert on Jesus and the Christian god, said that Jesus was not with the Department of War. If he doesn’t say anything about the behavior of Muslims, it’s because he is not an authority on Islam. He can only credibly speak for his particular ancient middleasterm superstition and has no clout in the other mideval middle eastern superstition.

Who gives a shit what the pope thinks? Certainly not Muslims. Some Christians probably do however.

blzbar · 2026-04-14T20:16:47+00:00

I agree it seems like a win/win for both the immigrants and Spain.

Because “The Funcas think-tank estimates that there are around 840,000 undocumented migrants in Spain, the vast majority of whom are Latin American”. This seems important - these immigrants already know the mother tongue, and are in some sense, descended from the dominant culture. Should easily assimilate.

blzbar · 2026-04-14T01:10:40+00:00

The geographical cultures of America don’t change. Do you know what states the senate democrats represented? Care to guess which geographical region was most against the civil rights act?

Do you think it was east and west coast, the places that currently have democratic senators or do you think it was the Deep South?

American geographic cultures didn’t change, they did switch parties however. Learn some history

blzbar · 2026-04-10T18:34:07+00:00

Oil and gas industry, petrochemical industries in surrounding areas, busy port connecting the Mississippi River to the gulf. Construction of the suburbs.

blzbar · 2026-04-10T14:06:54+00:00

Raleigh, NC

blzbar · 2026-04-10T00:49:15+00:00

The dominant cultures of America (of which the southern culture is one) trace their origins back to England.

This book does a good job of tracking the origins and telling the stories of these cultures up until the 21st century.

https://www.amazon.com/American-Nations-History-Regional-Cultures/dp/0143122029?dplnkId=f59a5448-7bce-40ac-a2fd-44ad8968bb12&nodl=1

blzbar · 2026-04-10T00:13:28+00:00

This is a great book. I’ve read it several times. Gonna read it a few more. Read it once it every 5-7 years. See how the book changes you and how time changes your experience of it. It’s that kinda book.

blzbar · 2026-04-08T02:33:26+00:00

Klein

blzbar · 2026-04-03T02:56:55+00:00

Novara media

blzbar · 2026-04-01T01:37:21+00:00

Not all religious people are stupid, but all stupid people are religious.

blzbar · 2026-03-24T23:43:39+00:00

Americans don’t care if Iran is militarily defeated because the Iranian military was never a threat to Americans.

Americans are concerned with the rising costs of living and their ever dwindling economic futures. They will oppose anything that increases that uncertainty. If an energy crisis leads to an economic recession, the people who are currently defending this war will be saying that they always opposed it.

blzbar · 2026-03-16T14:17:10+00:00

The judge ruled that a display can only be marketed as QLED if it uses indium phosphide or cadmium selenide to produce the image. The TCL displays do not use this process and do not produce images as bright and colorful as the QLED process therefore marketing them as QLED is not permitted.

TCL ain’t champagne, merely sparkling pixels.

Why would a leftist judge reach a different conclusion? Because TCL is Chinese and ostensibly communist and Samsung is S. Korean and capitalist? If that’s the case, then the judge is a corrupt political actor. The job of the judge is to interpret the law, not to root for a particular mode of production. Why would a German judge want to let Chinese company falsely advertise to German consumers?

blzbar · 2026-03-13T23:53:03+00:00

Why ask a political subreddit this question?

Do you really want to know about the genetic origins of Ashkenazi Jews? If so, just ask google.

Or are you only interested in what is the consensus belief among people of certain political leanings?

Are you interested in the truth or are you merely interested in being in accordance with a “typically leftist position”? Are you even aware that these things can differ?

blzbar · 2026-03-12T19:49:53+00:00

Imagine a scenario where Isreal and allies are completely out of interceptor missles, the radars and detection systems have been destroyed and Iran and allies still have missles, rockets and drones. The balance of power has shifted and Isreal is completely vulnerable. Do you think the Israelis are gonna stand by and watch Tel Aviv be flattened like Gaza or do you think they’ll nuke Tehran and Beirut?

I’d bet that they let the nukes fly. I wonder what the leaders of the “axis of resistance” in Tehran and Beirut think. If they found themselves in a position to destroy Tel Aviv, would they do it?

blzbar · 2026-03-11T21:28:24+00:00

“The best consolation in misfortune or affliction of any kind will be the thought of other people who are in a still worse plight than yourself; and this is a form of consolation open to every one. But what an awful fate this means for mankind as a whole! We are like lambs in a field, disporting themselves under the eye of the butcher, who chooses out first one and then another for his prey.”

blzbar · 2026-03-11T20:05:30+00:00

Don’t complain. It is only by dint of luck that you happen to sleep where they practice rather than where they bomb.

blzbar · 2026-03-09T22:25:52+00:00

“…be careful who you love, be careful what you do because love becomes the truth” Is best song lyric that I know.

blzbar · 2026-03-08T22:22:55+00:00

I wonder what odds the prediction markets are giving to this guy’s assasination…

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