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In retrospect I’d like to now declare this the funniest fucking Tweet of all time 

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I don't really have any arguments or rebuttals to make in response, I just wanted to thank you for the criticism. It's definitely given me something to think about.

Idk why this is on my mind right now but it's something that just occurred to me while I was driving home today (TL;DR at the end):

I think a major problem with the way we learn about the Civil War is that it unwittingly paves the way for misconceptions and misinterpretations of the conflict between the North and the South, and that allows us as laypeople to undermine the gravity therein.

The most notable example being the fact that we call it the "Civil" War. Civil wars are defined as wars "between organized groups within the same state or country." In other words, for the American Civil War to actually qualify as a civil war, it would have had to been a conflict between two groups within the United States of America.

And if you've made it this far into the text you're probably thinking to yourself, "Uh yeah, Rubén, everybody knows that." But what a lot of people fail to remember is that the two opposing groups in this war were NOT within the same country.

By the time the war began, 7 of the 13 states that made up the Confederacy had officially seceded from the United States of America, meaning that they denied any affiliation with the US, and instead established themselves as the Confederate States of America. And while the Confederacy was never officially recognized as a sovereign nation, its population was no longer that of United States citizens. These were foreigners who rejected our laws and our ideals and instead sought to impose their own for better or for worse.

This was not a just a skirmish or an instance of rivalry or rebellion. This was an act of perfidy and treason against the United States that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 people.

Following the events of the war, President Lincoln would go on to refer to Confederates as "Americans in rebellion", but that doesn't change the fact that he and President Johnson after him still had to issue pardons and amnesty to tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers and reinstate their citizenship. You know, because they committed crimes. Like treason.

To call this a "civil" war is a misrepresentation of what the Confederacy actually was in relation to the United States. Therefore, from this point forward I will be referring to the topic at hand as the "Confederate War," and I encourage all of you to do the same.

(TL;DR: Confederates were not US citizens, so calling the Civil War by that name is misleading. We should refer to it as the Confederate War.)

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Idk why this is on my mind right now but it's something that just occurred to me while I was driving home today (TL;DR at the end):

I think a major problem with the way we learn about the Civil War is that it unwittingly paves the way for misconceptions and misinterpretations of the conflict between the North and the South, and that allows us as laypeople to undermine the gravity therein.

The most notable example being the fact that we call it the "Civil" War. Civil wars are defined as wars "between organized groups within the same state or country." In other words, for the American Civil War to actually qualify as a civil war, it would have had to been a conflict between two groups within the United States of America.

And if you've made it this far into the text you're probably thinking to yourself, "Uh yeah, Rubén, everybody knows that." But what a lot of people fail to remember is that the two opposing groups in this war were NOT within the same country.

By the time the war began, 7 of the 13 states that made up the Confederacy had officially seceded from the United States of America, meaning that they denied any affiliation with the US, and instead established themselves as the Confederate States of America. And while the Confederacy was never officially recognized as a sovereign nation, its population was no longer that of United States citizens. These were foreigners who rejected our laws and our ideals and instead sought to impose their own for better or for worse.

This was not a just a skirmish or an instance of rivalry or rebellion. This was an act of perfidy and treason against the United States that resulted in the deaths of approximately 620,000 people.

Following the events of the war, President Lincoln would go on to refer to Confederates as "Americans in rebellion", but that doesn't change the fact that he and President Johnson after him still had to issue pardons and amnesty to tens of thousands of former Confederate soldiers and reinstate their citizenship. You know, because they committed crimes. Like treason.

To call this a "civil" war is a misrepresentation of what the Confederacy actually was in relation to the United States. Therefore, from this point forward I will be referring to the topic at hand as the "Confederate War," and I encourage all of you to do the same.

(TL;DR: Confederates were not US citizens, so calling the Civil War by that name is misleading. We should refer to it as the Confederate War.)

Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

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Source: https://www.instagram.com/finuccinialfredo/

(I wouldn’t usually post pics from others like this but this is a really good infographic. I have also messaged them on instagram and suggested they make an ADHD infographic account, which I’d share. It’s just really good and I hope they make more.)

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the concept of money is disgusting and repulsive but i wouldn’t say no to a check for five thousand us dollars 

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Reblogging again after like 4 years

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Filing this away for the future...

remember to cry for help without guilt-tripping. i know it feels like you’ve been abandoned and betrayed, but it’s probably not true, and it’s not okay to accuse the people around you of something they might not have done.

“i guess none of you like me” could be better phrased as “i feel unloved right now”

“but nobody cares anyway” could be better phrased as “i feel insignificant and i need reassurance”

rather than assuming others’ feelings, give them time to explain them. you’ll usually get a much better answer.

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#mood

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wнαт тнe ғυcĸ ιѕ тнιѕ?

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Pokémon games intro → Gold/Silver

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david shrigley

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