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pptsapper.bsky.social • 22 hours ago

Why does Lincoln have the best and most relevant quotes

https://www.nps.gov/liho/learn/historyculture/knownothingparty.htm

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jamusco.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Lincoln's supporters during his 1860 campaign were called Wide Awakes too. I'm surprised it doesn't get mentioned in the whole fake woke debate. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wide_Awakes

pptsapper.bsky.social•18 hours ago

You should read the new book on the Wide Awakes that came out last year, the author goes into that

poilu.bsky.social•18 hours ago

Interesting, I found it...

ogthedim.bsky.social•18 hours ago

A very good read - starts with the organic beginnings and goes through all of it without losing the personal nature of it for people

poilu.bsky.social•2 hours ago

@pptsapper.bsky.social I have to chuckle at the obviously parallel with "woke"...

oberstwklink.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I hope you will fix what's wrong atm across the big water. It is so sad. Trying my best to cheer up though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQqO2x39FLs

daveburhenn.bsky.social•17 hours ago

You know, Herr Oberst, that the Know-Nothings were not friends of our people. Especially the Catholic flavor.

oberstwklink.bsky.social•17 hours ago

😉

katmissouri.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The Wide Awakes are always here, friend, resisting tyranny to the end.

oberstwklink.bsky.social•17 hours ago

I really hoped that one day you could gimme a lift (hitch?, I think you Yanks call it) to... https://youtu.be/TOPaaHSjMcw?t=2317

basterdius.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Damn.
Lincoln to Know-Nothings:

larry-dickman.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Just lucky?

brianrwasik.bsky.social•19 hours ago

dude would read a book

gwash1776.bsky.social•20 hours ago

Except the endorsed Governor candidate in Florida is a 'negro', the First Lady is a 'foreigner', and the Vice President is a 'Catholic' (flotus too lol). Good grief.

theaviator.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Well, he has done an amazing job and is being recognized more and more.

zman1527.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Some things never change. These horrible people are always around. They are the slavers, the Confederacy, the Jim Crowers, and now the Neo-nazis.

pintah.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Nothing new under the sun.

bakanekro.bsky.social•19 hours ago

He was an absolute BAMF

justicemaidenr.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Oh shit. I've been reading bits about the Know-Nothing Party, while reading a book about the Wide-Awakes.

pptsapper.bsky.social•19 hours ago

That book is awesome

retiredpatriot.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I second.
Awesome & Amazing.

opinionated-terran.bsky.social•17 hours ago

"It's pronounced Rasslin'" is an all timer from Abe

azctjack.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Lincoln lived through the vapid times of yore when ignorance was seen as a good thing that allowed bigotry to grow unfettered

hapchem.bsky.social•21 hours ago

because we found the least in ourselves and embrace it like a coke-addled monkey.

ashtonr60.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Interesting thing about the Know-Nothings who got elected to local office, they actually paid a lot of attention to infrastructure projects (sewage, gas lines etc) something these GOP clowns could not pull off.

etdanslesilence.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Because Lincoln's prose was ~poetry~.
Those who write scholarship should take note but don't.
Yet wonder the reason their word product gathers dust rather than citations.

itberns.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This is spot on. I wonder if contemporary scholars would embrace or reject scholarship written in such forms.

etdanslesilence.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The underlying concepts in scholarship are substance and the transfer of new knowledge. That's been cast aside for style that, more often than not, is intended to "paper over' deficiencies in thought. What once was the art of simplification has been replaced by complicating simplicity
~Brilliant~

whd93.bsky.social•9 hours ago

Damn. Washington was our original patron saint, but Lincoln was our ideal.

notoriouszsb.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Cause he was probably our best president who understood weighing the big picture with respectfully pulling the levels of government to meet the times, but respecting them enough to know it should not stay that way.

manuelguerra.pt•19 hours ago

What a difference a mind makes...

citybythelake.bsky.social•18 hours ago

I go with TR for the win

cathcrawfd.bsky.social•19 hours ago

WOW

napoleon-the-pig.bsky.social•19 hours ago

This has always been one of his very greatest quotes, I think.

jacklint.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Lincoln kept notes. If he came up with a particular good phrase or sentence, he wrote it down and might develop it later. In short, he put in the work which is why he has great quotes

yougotastugoin.bsky.social•19 hours ago

🔥

retiredpatriot.bsky.social•19 hours ago

Because Lincoln was the GOAT?

Although FDR gave him a run for the title.

realcinematik.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Calling out Russia multiple regimes ago with the exact same shot is just *chef's kiss*

abajrak.bsky.social•22 hours ago

Straight up gangster rap stuff (complementary).

birchall.bsky.social•21 hours ago

When a party wants to "Take America Back" (to the 1850s), commentary from the 1850s feels timely...

dr-floon.bsky.social•21 hours ago

“ base alloy of hypocrisy “- brilliant!

elishahuntrhodes.bsky.social•16 hours ago

Having heard this in Ken Burns’ Civil War, I thought immediately of its application far into the 20th and 21st centuries. Russia has never changed much, and neither has racism in America.

anthroplast.bsky.social•18 hours ago

The rare example of a human with intelligence AND empathy.

pizzachu.bsky.social•19 hours ago

I'm beginning to realize that Abe Lincoln's greatest strength wasn't some rhetorical superpower or impossible charisma.

He just plainly and nonchalantly called power stupid to its face.

formerphilprof.bsky.social•19 hours ago

One of the earliest examples was the Spot Resolutions. In a maniacal buildup to war with Mexico because of a supposed attack on American soldiers on American soil Lincoln demanded to know what the exact spot was where this happened. Lost his seat.
https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtid=3&psid=3672

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