John Brown led an armed team to break into a guy's house in the middle of the night while he was asleep, dragged him and his sons into the woods while tied up, then hacked them to death with machetes He is a goddamn hero, one of my personal idols
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
This was a completely politically motivated killing and an act of political terrorism James P. Doyle was not a slaveowner, but he was a slavery *supporter*, and intended to vote in favor of legalizing slavery in Kansas It was "direct voter suppression"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
Brown specifically killed the members of the household who were of voting age and who were members of a pro-slavery political party The goal was to intimidate pro-slavery settlers into giving up the cause and to inspire copycat killings, mass insurrection
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
He is basically Scott's worst nightmare Eliezer's "Bad ideas get debate, never bullets" aphorism Scott's "Be nice until you can coordinate meanness" (ie the state should have a monopoly on force) Fuck that When people politically support slavery you kill them until they stop
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
John Brown made himself into a "Scissor Statement" "John Brown is a hero" vs "John Brown is a monster" tore the country apart, turned their "social media" (pamphlets and newspapers) into a cesspool of hostility, turned brother against brother, all the good stuff
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Replying to @arthur_affect @PlzBeSensible and
I cannot believe you are still going with this person.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect and
If nothing else, Arthur has nearly infinite ability to debate with people who are at best of dubious faith.
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Replying to @GhoulofUpstate @dreamingnoctis and
It's actually something that's really valuable -- in MMO terms, he's "tanking". He attracts all the heat so that people who are Done With This Shit can actually go do other stuff without disingenuous shitheads harassing them, at least not quite so much.
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Replying to @iridienne @GhoulofUpstate and
I've actually thought this before, esp. when he argues with TERF's who would otherwise be causing more trouble with trans people if he wasn't taking up so much of their time and energy.
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Replying to @dreamingnoctis @arthur_affect
In future I suggest untagging some of those people when discussing this very thing, so the strategy can continue
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