I'll go first:

"something negative about John Brown"

The joke doesn't play in text.

Was anybody listening to NPR just now about John Brown compared to Abe Lincoln? Because I'm kind of glad our little group idolizes the man because he's as right as any white man has been possibly ever.

I know the meme where the only thing John Brown ever did wrong was die but as far as I can see, that's almost exactly true. He went on the bad kind of suicide mission. If he knew god wasn't real, he wouldn't martyr himself that way.

John kidnapped like 5 slaver-settlers in Kansas and BRUTALLY hacked them to pieces with an ax

lol this fucking guy 😂

  • happybadger [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Bowie knife pole arms

    https://amhistory.si.edu/militaryhistory/collection/object.asp?ID=508

    He agreed to make 1000 pikes for Brown at $1 a piece, payable in installments. After making 500 weapons, Blair halted production because Brown failed to pay him. Blair held the pikes for two years. In 1859, Brown reappeared at Blair's door with the needed funds to purchase 954 pikes and requested that they be forwarded to Chambersburg, Pennsylvania. Brown intended to issue these inexpensive weapons to an army of slave insurgents.