• I_Jedi@lemmy.today
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    3 days ago

    John Brown was also an influential speaker of his time. A really cool dude. Though what happened to him shows that the US citizenry never had the stones to fight for what they believe in. They only think they do.

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      2 days ago

      Well at least one contemporary disagrees

      [John Brown] was with the troops during that war, he was seen in every camp fire, and our boys pressed onward to victory and freedom, timing their feet to the stately stepping of Old John Brown as his soul went marching on. — Frederick Douglass

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            3 days ago

            Sure. Can you provide sufficient liquid F2 whose gaseous form can achieve 500 ppm over a diameter of 50 kilometers? A sufficiently powerful smoke machine which can achieve this concentration over that area using the provided F2 is also required. These materials must be transferred to the center of Moscow undetected.

            Think you can whip up that grocery list for me? Or do you have an excuse?

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                3 days ago

                The F2 sellers will have me killed if I try to buy it from them, since I’m on the US government’s kill list. It would be impossible to use my credit card, since the government would drop a bomb on my head as soon as I go to collect the goods.

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                  Got it. You’re so dangerous you’re on the government’s kill list, but too moral to do a little credit card fraud.

                  John Brown was a wanted man when he went to Harper’s Ferry.

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                    3 days ago

                    Ol’ John Brown didn’t envelop the entire Eastern Seaboard with toxic psychedelic gas, putting him on said kill list, though.