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Raithe

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  1. On the tangent from Jefferson... Indy100 - Trump ridiculed after getting basic piece of history about the US constitution wrong So many people so quickly responding with the "uh. Jefferson was in France. He never wrote it."
  2. Halloween is a holiday where: You don't have to prepare food. You don't have to meet up with family. You don't have to attend a festival. Halloween songs can be catchy, but they're never repetitive or played for months on end. It can allow pretty much anyone to partake in it regardless of religion or background. It's completely voluntary with no peer pressure to do anything or attend specific functions or travel anywhere. Halloween lets you be, however you want to express yourself, and it's the one night pretty much no-one will judge you.
  3. It's always hard to do a "they were men of their time" and have that aspect of it's really awkward to judge people by the morality and ethics of a time several hundred years different. As I posted in the weird but interesting thread, Columbus was judged horrible by the people of his own time. However, with the founding fathers (and speaking as a Brit), they had equal amounts of genius, flair, pettiness, hypocritical attitudes, and innovative beliefs. But the Americans have really pushed the mythologising sainthood aspects of them over time. So it's kind of interesting to see some of this peeling back of who they actually were. But still, it's all trying to examine people in the context of their time and the cultures around them, not the standards we have now.
  4. Inside 'Wheel of Time,' Amazon’s Huge Gamble on the Next 'Game of Thrones' | GQ
  5. Indigenous Community Demand Fox News Firings After Racist Comments - Comic Sands Surprise Surprise...
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