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Pointing out doomerism means you're a mcclappy homer, don't you know that?

Great, shitcan Syrsky next.

What we'll actually get: 1. Some Florida Georgia Line knockoff from the Nashville Factory of Country Pop. 2. Billy Joel. 3. More Mr. Brightside because the players like it and some accountant at the NFL knows its the unofficial anthem of the UK.

I've got to read more on the English Civil War's effect on the founders. If for no other reason than what began as a war to establish the relative power of King and Parliament, ended with 12sh years of puritan military dictatorship.

Thanks! The only historical interpretations of America I tend to dismiss out of hand are the Progressive ones. Charles Beard and his "Everything boils down to economics" pap is the definition of reduction to absurdity.

May as well throw in Rousseau and see what comes out! I put Trumpy's thoughts on Calvinism and its influence on the Revolution into ChatGpt. It laid out about a dozen different historians from four or five different schools of thought on the subject, and their books. Best use of Chatgpt I've ever come across

Are you sure about Calvin's influence specifically? I'm curious, since the 13 Colonies were a haven for Protestant non- conformers and Calvinists weren't really known for their pluralism (but then again, no one really was at the time). What parts did they like?

The documentary starts by stating the Iroqouian Confederacy may have influenced Ben Franklin's ideas on the Albany Plan of Union. That's pretty much it.

I thought they were talking about the Albany Plan of Union.

I hope you're right, that seems like a workable set of compromises. ...but it'd be great if this could have happened without all the fumbling, ham-ham handed nonsense that Marco Rubio managed to patch up.

How Rubio Tried to Bring a Pro-Russia Peace Plan to Middle Ground: While President Trump attacked the Ukrainians, Secretary of State Marco Rubio flew to Geneva to seize control of negotiations that were going off the rails.

Grenier is a very good book on colonial war making, specifically vs. Indians. He's taking on Russel Weigley of The American Way of War fame, and Guy Chet's Conquering the American Wildness: The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast. Gnaddenhutten is one of many, many massacres we perpetrated while practicing "extirpative war". Grenier's actually got the balls to say the first American Way of War was a-ok with torturing and killing noncombatants, burning their homes and fields, and paying people for scalps in order to win. He's also got the signed documents and letters from the Continental Congress, Founding Fathers and state legislatures to prove it, which is the important bit.

Reading books. I'm working through Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy's The Men Who Lost America. Dean Snow's 1777 is very good. Just re-read Jonathan Grenier's The First Way of War...actually does Burns cover the Gnaddenhutten Massacre at all?

This can't be repeated enough.

...again.