Republican Revolution

POSTED BY: Hero
UPDATED: Tuesday, May 26, 2026 12:23
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Originally posted by Khyron:

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Originally posted by Hero:
[...] exported liberty to the entire world.

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Still some way to go before this has happened.

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This isn't my signature. I have to type this every time I make a post.

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The rest of the world is just going to have to wait - we seem to have run critically short of this commodity here at home in the last 8 years!

E (TCB)

If the prefix "pro-" means "for" or "in favor of", and "con" is its opposite, and if "progress" means "pushing forward" or "improving"... then what the hell does "Congress" mean?

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Originally posted by Hero:The only thing Tesla ever invented was wacky conspiracy theories.

I note for the record that Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb in 1879. That same year Mr. Tesla, working as an assistant engineer in Serbia, had a nervous breakdown.

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Proof? Or are you just spouting crazytalk?

And you seem to be suggesting that being a genius and being batshit crazy are mutually exclusive states of being. Far from it - they're next-door neighbors!

E (TCB)

If the prefix "pro-" means "for" or "in favor of", and "con" is its opposite, and if "progress" means "pushing forward" or "improving"... then what the hell does "Congress" mean?

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Hero, old bean, I assure you I leave the crazy talk to the more deluded members of the forum. You can spot them they're usually ridiculously self aggrandising, "I own my own media outlet, the only one telling the TRUTH about alien butt probes" one might say, "I'm the greatest lawyer ever!" may say another...

Actually, turns out it wasn't Tesla, I was getting mixed up, I think Tesla invented another of Edison's stolen inventions. Edison didn't invent hardly anything, he just patented other peoples inventions first. It's easy to be a prolific inventor, if you have a shortcut to the patent office and read scientific journals...

Anyway, electric lighting was in use fifty years before Edison's patent, and Edison LOST a court battle in Britain to Joseph Swan who held a British patent dated 1878:

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In addition, Edison was not the first to patent the modern design of the lightbulb. It seems that an inventor named Joseph Swan demonstrated the same carbon filament lightbulb in Newcastle at least ten months prior to Edison's announcement. In addition, Swan received a British patent in 1878 for the same bulb that Edison patented in the U. S. in 1879.
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Edison lost in the British courts for infringement of Swan's patent. As part of the settlement, Edison was forced to take Swan in as a partner in his British electric works. The company was called the Edison and Swan United Electric Company. Eventually, Edison acquired all of Swan's interest in the company.

In the United States, Edison didn't have the chance to put up a fight. The U.S. Patent Office had ruled on October 8, 1883 that Edison's patents were based on the prior art of a man named William Sawyer and were invalid. In addition, Swan had already sold his U.S. patent rights to the Brush Electric Company in June of 1882.

So why does Edison get all the credit for the invention of the lightbulb?

Very simple, he owned the power company - what was to eventually become General Electric.

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http://www.inventioncity.com/edison_bulb.htm

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More insane ramblings by the people who brought you beeeer milkshakes!
No one can see their reflection in running water. It is only in still water that we can see.

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Originally posted by citizen:
Edison LOST a court battle in Britain to Joseph Swan who held a British patent dated 1878:

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More leftist propaganda*, eh Cit?


* Leftist propaganda:reactionary term
1) true facts that don't jibe with long held or staunch Conservative and/or NeoCon beliefs
2) stuff that bugs Hero and/or AU

Chrisisall

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the worlds most boring revolution the republican one ,dont smash anything, everyone is forced to church on sundays and wearing a suit will be imposed on everyone ,plus video games, porn and fun is banned.all the best miike

October 12th, 1985. Dog carcass in alley this morning, tire tread on burst stomach. This city is afraid of me. I have seen its true face. The streets are extended gutters and the gutters are full of blood and when the drains finally scab over, all the vermin will drown.

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Those thirteen free states were ruined by becoming fifty free states united into a single nation that not only freed the slaves in this country but exported liberty to the entire world.

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Gee, everyone else ended Slavery peacefully - meanwhile Lincoln tried to enshrine it in the Consitution forever, and then fought a war on our very own soil against our own people using it as a partial excuse to ELIMINATE that whole pesky "Free State" (i.e. consent of the governed) thing.

He didn't free any slaves, he made us ALL slaves to the Federal Fucking Gov and it's ruinous taxes.

As for exporting liberty ?
Don't make me fucking laugh.

Pinochet
Saddam
Noriega
Papa Doc
The Shah
Franco

Need I go on ?
There's a REASON folk in the relative countries don't care for us, you know.

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Ruined by building the strongest, most productive nation in the history of the world.

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Since when ?
Once you discount the FedGovs little nibble at every single step of production down to the sale, it consumes MOST of what we "produce", like a bloated fucking parasite starving it's host.

And a truely strong country would not feed the need to try to destabilise every other country on the planet in fear that they might someday be on parity with them, a policy that has bit us on the ass time and time again - we'd be helping other countries instead of pitting them at each others throats and fucking them over via the IMF and WTO.

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Ruined by building a nation capable of beating the Nazis and the bad Japs and then kind enough to help rebuild the Germans and good Japs and turn them into friends.

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You know, folks got all kinda baggage over Hitler and his camps, his eugenics issues, but they all seem to forget those were taken from our solution to the "Indian Problem" - on top of which we nuked two civilian population centers.
I guess firebombing Dresden is kind of an afterthought to that, just because we got better propaganda doesn't make us nice folk.

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Ruined by extremely long periods of peace on this continent.

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I wouldn't call being kept in fear and poverty as a control device to be peace.
That's the same kind of "peace" Patrick Henry argued against when we decided to kick the Crown off our soil.

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Ruined by ever increasing life spans and standards of living.

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Only if you're in the 5% that controls 99% of the resources.
As a general rule, both of those standards... we're far from top of the heap, and falling rapidly, and maybe if you took a look at the world around you instead of faux news propaganda, it might occur to you that the average standard of living has gone south in a hurry, the past eight years or so.

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Ruined by creating a nation where women and men are free to be equal and were different races and religeons can co-exist in harmony (or at least indifference).

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Might I remind you that you're talkin to someone who's been SHOT AT, in this country, in Florida, over religion ?

Might I remind you that police harrassment of the Arab community in Dearborn, right down the road from here, has reached epic proportions and is part of why we have a pack of Feds camped out at the DPD ?

Might I remind you that the Fremgirl has gotten some rough treatment simply for being female from her former employers in the auto industry ?
(to the point of changing her name to a masculine form and using non-voice comm to conceal her gender)

Might I remind you of the nonstop hate for non-christian religions spouted from every media orifice 24-7-365 ?

Oh I don't think so, buddy.

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Ruined by creating a nation that provides more aid and comfort to persons displaced by tragedy then any other nation in the history of the world.

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At the expense and misery of our own, who in such cases often go without, or are directly exploited and mistreated during and after ?

Where was that aid and comfort during Katrina, or the Blackout, ehe ?

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Maybe you don't understand the meaning of the word 'ruin'.

Its " Total destruction or disintegration, either p

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