On this day in 1837, Africans and Native Americans who had formed Florida's Seminole Nation decisively defeated an invading U.S. force more than twice their size, led by slaveowner and future U.S. president Zachary Taylor.
Since the founding of the U.S., escaped African slaves had settled in modern-day Florida. At the same time, Seminoles suffering under Creek rule in Alabama and Georgia were fleeing south to seek independence. There, the two groups formed an alliance, sharing cultivation techniques and putting up armed resistance against colonization and slaver forces.
The U.S. repeatedly invaded territory controlled by this alliance, and, on Christmas Day in 1837, 380 to 480 Seminole fighters gathered on the northeast corner of Florida's Lake Okeechobee ready to halt the armies of Colonel Zachary Taylor, a Louisiana slaveholder and future U.S. president.
Seminole riflemen waited for the soldiers in trees, firing on them from above. The battle was a decisive defeat for U.S. forces, however Taylor falsely claimed a victory when returning to Fort Gardner.
Dec. 26, 1835: Second Seminole War, Largest Uprising of the Enslaved 
Christmas day freedom fighters: hidden history of the Seminole anticolonial struggle - William Katz 
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Two questions;
1.) will reading Simulacra and Simulation improve my chances of kissing hot goth girls wearing latex cat suits who shoot federal agents?
2.) Is Baudrillard French, or French (pejorative)?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gulf_War_Did_Not_Take_Place
On that note, could anyone take a break from kissing hot latex goths to comment on whether this is worth picking up? Bc I've made an argument many times that the gulf war wasn't a war at all, but an entirely one-sided slaughter followed by terrifying massacre-by-starvation.
no
what now you fucking nerd
omg this book is cool as hell I am going to read it and become so obnoxious and my power will grow until I can overthrow god by casually dropping "Oh Biden does not really exist what you perceive is a fifth order psuedo-simulacast of the office of the presidency as laid out in the american civic religion. Perhaps, somewhere, there is a man called Joseph Robinette Biden but you have never seen even a glimpse of him, nor will you ever."
Thanks for the recommendation. It is pretty interesting. Baudrillard doesn't waste time dicking around does he?
If you want to support your argument, you'd have to read about the gulf war. If you want to take a philosophical standpoint and support that, you can read Baudrillard. If you just think the argument sounds cool and you wanna read it, read it
I do not want to support my argument. i want to dazzle and confuse my enemies!
Actually, i want to read it to help reconcile my personal experience as a young child watching the "War" happen on tv in what was in many ways the very first year of the 24/7 news cycle. I only remember it in bits and peaces but the spectacle of anti-aircraft fire arcing through the Bagdahd night and the breathless 24/7 commentary does not at all line up with what I understand actually happened, which was mostly a massacre of retreating Iraqi army troops and, probably, huge numbers of civilians that the US army thought and/or decided were troops.