Recent content by MendotoManteo

I told my dad that he's arrogant. And he is. I am too but I at least recognize the fact.

I just got off a fight with my parents. About this. Dad said it was about drugs. I tried to explain how we allow drugs across the border and supply Mexican cartels with weapons. He wasn't having any of it. No, it's about oil. And I've told you all about it! I've predicted the past three...

The most messed up and corrupt culture is a small town or county. They just don't know it because it doesn't draw the attention of NYC, LA, or SF, or whatever.

This will give my dad more steam to claim everything is awful and what-not. As he rests comfortably in his own home, far away. Nevermind all the child rape and what have you that occurs in my home county. And that I got to see the case files of when I thought about being a DA.

"The Gods Must be Crazy" is of course a modern, Western film on society. But I think the portrayal of the Bushmen probably fairly accurate. It would not surprise me at all that pre-modern families (which means something different according to place and time) could be more "happy," so to speak...

I don't care to watch the Jack Smith testimony, because, as some others have already stated, would make me too mad. Anyone with half a brain cell leftover knew what Trump was doing. Heck, I even said in 2016, when he was elected, that it would end this way. Because it's so obvious what he is. A...

If Stevenson can hit 3 point shot consistently, we're going to be on an elite level. Thus far, he has not done so. I really like this team. Hubert has his rear on the line. He has seemed to have done well with portal and recruiting. We'll see.

Nat Turner is an amazing story, no doubt. It's incredible what he did, no matter what anyone may think of it. However, if we're debating who was more a patriot or who was an more amazing story: Brown or Turner? You have to keep in mind the following: A) Brown was white. B) Brown was not a...

That's very well put. What do you teach? I have an English PhD from the University of Tennessee. Taught many classes but never brought up John Brown, because he was lost to even me at the time. This is mid-00s to 2014 or so. The people you mention. It reminds me how propagandized we are...

Poor John Brown. No one comments much because very few remember. As we've been taught to forget him. I don't know what US History courses you took, but mine never involved John Brown. He was an afterthought. And rightfully so. Because it was never the intention of this country to live up to...

Thank you for sharing! I had not seen that video before.

Of all the figures in American history that intrigue me the most, it's John Brown. Whatever one may think of him, I believe him to be the most exceptional American that has ever lived. He's largely fallen into the dustbin of history, although the Showtime "The Good Lord Bird" miniseries during...

True but things are relative. You're right though that we tolerate things many do not. At least in the developed world.

As Americans, we accept a certain level of corruption, lies, unaccountability, etc., from our politicians. Always have. It's obviously imperfect, and we should do better. However, this has always been the case, and we've still managed. Trump is an entirely different level of these things. And...

You're not wrong. However, it obviously affects us all, unfortunately. The idea of a "reckoning" comes to mind here. In its true sense and not just the casual way we sometimes use the term. John Brown, for instance (and who I may just start a thread about here shortly), said that the fact of...