I'm a history major, 23 years old, and libertarian-conservative. I think SJ blogs suck... I love getting asks of people trying to argue politics with me.
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This guy was told by his Homeowners Association that he couldn’t fly the American flag in his front yard.
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I couldn’t decide who my history crush is so I made a little collage. These people aren’t my history crushes because I’m secretly in love with them or because I support their world view. No, they’re just people who I’m interested in and I’m mature enough to be critical of their biographies. Stalin, a dictator who supported the murderer of 20 Million people from his own country, was a BAMF when he was young, but that doesn’t mean that I support the Stalinism. I like the design of the Wehrmacht uniform, but I’m totally aware about the war crimes the German soldiers committed while WWII (same goes for the SS). The person on the picture is Stauffenberg. At least he tried to kill Hitler, one year till the ‘party’ was finally over. I think Richelieu is a really interesting personality, although I think that the Siege of La Rochelle was a crime against humanity. Friedrich II. (HRR) is one of my favorite personalities in history. He was educated, intelligent and very calculating. On the one side he was tolerant and had no problems with ‘talking’ with the Arabs, but on the other side he was a huge supporter of the early inquisition. And Napoleon… well, we all know how he tried to bring the ideals of the French Revolution to Europe. Thousands of soldiers and civilians had to pay with their lives. Friedrich Schiller. Okay, he doesn’t kill somebody and never committed a real crime; he was an author to whom I have a little hate-love relationship. And Rousseau was a BAMF, an intelligent BAMF! And who’s left… ah yes, dear Emperor Caligula. Current historians revise his biography and try to separate between facts and myths/negative propaganda. We will see the results, but at the moment most people might know Caligula as one of the cruelest Emperors of Rome and yet he’s just fascinating.
TL;DR. Most of my ‘history crushes’ are people who were reckless, cruel and committed some awful crimes against humanity, but they also created whole empires and made indeed history. History is war and death, and everybody who can’t deal with that shouldn’t study it. And if people think that Goebbels or even Hitler are their ‘history crushes’, than it shall be. But I can’t understand why so many people make such a fuss about a Nazi crush, but don’t care so much when Stalin, Mao (who killed more people than Hitler) or any other crazy dictator is posted. And if a person is really in love with Goebbels, that person has another problem than haters on Tumblr. Fascination doesn’t necessarily equal admiration. And to have a history crush doesn’t mean that you support their world view. Try to see the difference.
amen to that
HAHAHA I figured y’all might enjoy this because we get a lot of messages about “so-and-so looks so much like famous-actor” and IT REALLY IS QUITE EERIE SOMETIMES!
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Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
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I am sorry I just had to reblog this. It is just to fucking funny.
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rainbowsunicornsandbutterflies:
Jr.: Hey look, ma! Tumblr Libertarians! Oh…never mind. It’s just those Westboro people again.
Mom: Don’t worry, Jr. I know it’s hard to tell them apart sometimes.
…What?
You’re doing exactly what you scream at liberals for doing: unnecessary, stupid, and illogical mudslinging. And then you turn around and do the exact same thing to libertarians - who consistently have leaned Republican?
What are you thinking? Why in the world would you want to piss off - for no reason - a critical swing block that’s been going GOP recently?
Insinuating that libertarians are like people from the Westboro Baptist Church is insulting, disrespectful, slimy, and low.
In what way am I like the Westboro Baptist Church? Enlighten me.
perhaps the dumbest thing I’ve ever seen on tumblr. too bad it had to come from talkstraight; that warranted an unfollow.
I think he was referencing how some libertarians on Tumblr tend to blame military members for their service in the wars they may or may not agree with. You can be anti-war all you want, but blaming the individual military members for their service is ridiculous. Give the men and women who have served your respect instead of your pity, they don’t want your pity and they aren’t pitiful.
That’s what I thought when I saw it. Having followed him for months, I can tell when he’s making a joke - but a joke with a point.
Yes, People, it was a joke and specifically directed towards the ‘anti-military, terrorists exist because we have bases in other countries’ Tumblr Libertarians I have been blessed with hearing from recently and over the last year or so I have been on Tumblr-not all Libertarians in general and most normal Libertarians would understand that.
But, hey, if this struck such a strong cord that you became so offended by it that you decide to unfollow me-go for it. I don’t do this so I can stroke myself over how many followers I have anyway. And maybe you should self-reflect and ask why you got so offended by it in the first place.
I get what hes saying. I don’t like to identify with the “libertarian” label because of the people he is talking about.
