#War Hawks

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CNN Contributor Jonah Goldberg Retracts Statement After Misleading Voters with Erroneous 'Execution' Remark on Trump’s Cheney Comments

From Necon Jonah Goldberg: "This morning on CNN I referred to Trump’s “rifles” quote as him advocating a “firing squad” for Liz Cheney...After I said that, my co-panelist, Brad Todd made the case that I was wrong. Brad was right and, again, I was wrong. Trump was making – albeit in his customary fashion – a different argument about Cheney’s alleged foreign policy views and the use of force...I let my disgust at Trump’s comments get the better of me as this was the first time I’d heard them. In fact, at the end of the program, having thought about it, I said as much (though I could have been clearer). A fact that has been left out in a lot of the criticism of me since this morning...I regret the initial comment because it was inaccurate and contributed to the kind of overheated environment Trump thrives on."

[thefreethoughtprojectcom]

The left & right finally agree on something! More bombs, more war!

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The Neocons vs Paleoconservatives - How They Are Different and Why It Ma...

[immaculatasknight]

Deep state losing control

[n0thingiscool]

DNC are war hawk cunts who will take food from their own children and give it to genocidal nazis while acknowledging it's improper to publicly disparage some under represented populations they like.

The RNC are war hawk cunts who will take food from their own children and give it to genocidal nazis while also aspiring to be genocidal nazis.

The nuance is a fucking prison sentence, either way you look at it.

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

I normally don’t make pop-culture references to real world politics but the GOP wanting to invade Mexico reminds me of the Jack Ryan movie Clear and Present Danger.

[elennemigo]

"When (Benedict´s) characters become obsessed with something."

[Insp. by @/Ayatay tweet.]

[choppedcowboydinosaur]

It's called gays for war.

Guys did you hear the cure to bigotry is imperialism and genocide

[noblemalone]

What if Dragon Age but they all work at Costco

it’s been 20 minutes and I’m already obsessed with this AU

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[oxygen537art]

Dabihawks post-war AU

Toya became part of a villain rehabilitation program and received quality treatment.

New life, new scars

[clove-pinks]

Thank you for tagging me! I have overthought this to the extreme, and I still don't have a clear answer. While there was really no military action that took place in South Carolina during the War of 1812 (besides a few skirmishes off the coast), if this son of John Laurens had pursued a military career he could have ended up almost anywhere!

In fact, the first thing that popped into my mind when I starting pondering South Carolina in the War of 1812 is Wade Hampton I, who bungled the invasion of Canada and led the US forces to defeat at the Battle of the Chateauguay. The South Carolina military leaders and congressional War Hawks (including John C. Calhoun) were also pro-slavery and bigtime enslavers, and I have to wonder if John Laurens's hypothetical son would share any of his father's anti-slavery beliefs. Ideologically, he could really be at odds with the pro-war faction, who as a general rule were also very anti-Indigenous and bent on conquering more land for settlement and displacing any Indigenous inhabitants.

Maybe, if he was a little more egalitarian and worldly, Laurens's son would go Navy instead of Army. The US Navy was about 20% Black sailors in this time period. The privateer Decatur, shown here capturing HMS Dominica in a painting by Maarten Platje, was built in Charleston, South Carolina.

Do you think it would change much in John Laurens’ life and his legacy if he had a son instead of daughter?

Idk if THAT much, but.. It can be interesting👀.... I personaly think his son would be a solider too, and fight in the war of 1812.... 👀

What an interesting hypothetical!

I don't think much would have changed in John's life, since abandoning his wife and child seemed more a rejection of family life in general than anything specifically against Frances being a girl. In the 18th century, upper-class boys and girls were raised pretty similarly up until about four or five (and even wore similar kinds of smock dresses), so I don't think gender played much of a role in John's thoughts (however infrequent) about his family.

A son would have been a more direct assurance of family legacy, so that might have made John or his family more interested in the child's welfare, but that doesn't change that fact that the further along the war progressed, the less opportunity there was to do anything about Martha and her child being stranded in England – given that John was at war, Henry was in congress or in prison, and the rest of the Laurenses were scattered between London and France. South Carolina was occupied and thus unsafe for a famous rebel's family, and there wasn't any kind of family home to send them to anyway.

As for John's legacy after his death, it's really impossible to say because of so many unknown factors – would his son have taken after his family's republican values or rejected them? Would he have married well or also eloped, like Frances did? What career would he have had? Would he have crumpled under the pressure of being the son of the American paragon-martyr of ideal masculine virtues?

If he had become a soldier, he would have had huge shoes to fill, which is either something you embrace with fervour or get drowned by.

As for the War of 1812, I'm going to be cheeky and pass that question on to our resident expert, @clove-pinks – what role, if any, would a 35-year-old South Carolinian fella have played in the War of 1812?

[st4r-t3ars]

The “How to kill your boss” bookclub

[chaosfantasmic]

how real men sit

[kittyoperas]

wanted to draw some tender Great Comet of 1812 AU Hawke and Anders because they are so very special to me!!!

[immaculatasknight]

Canada's diplomatic duplicity