Definitions by The Original Agahnim
Abraham Lincoln
A statue people hail like a chief while they try and get all the Confederate ones removed. Washington owned slaves and so far nobody has suggested demolishing Washington monument or Mount Rushmore, it would almost seem like terrorism, so what's with the double standard against one kind of statue or monument and not the other?
People treat Abraham Lincoln's statue like the HNIC while they don't respect any symbol of the Confederacy or think it has any right to be there. What's with the double standard, when did one become so good and the other so bad? When the first updated editions of history books were written in 1866?
Abraham Lincoln by The Original Agahnim November 13, 2021
Civil War
A war of numbers. The North was both more popilated and industrialized, and therefore had control of most of the weapons and ordinance production. The South being less populated and industrialized was thought to be easier to gain control of, and there had been a gold rush not long before the Civil War, which would interest powerful people in North to regain control of a seceded part of the union. Since the North wrote the history books, their version of history was always going to be the more popular and noble sounding version of history, but not everything in a book is to be taken without a grain of salt, any more than any other source. Most wars are money/resource/power struggles once you get below the surface, with headlines about abolition and emancipation from slavery being icing on the cake that gives people a warm, boosted ego, even if the people that started the war had no true interest in or gave a fuck about a single black/ African descendant since it's rare that ones that started the war are the same ones fighting in it (Washington being an exception).
The history books tell people the Civil War was about freeing the slaves to make people feel good inside because it sounds good, but for the average person fighting in it on either side, slavery was the last thing on their mind.
Civil War by The Original Agahnim November 13, 2021
Abraham Lincoln
A guy history books (mis)lead people (especially brown people) into believing his intentions were more noble than they actually were. He was from Kentucky (the South) even though Illinois was called the land of Lincoln since that was where he rose to prominence. Had the South won the Civil War, the narrative wouldn't have been that he was a hero, it would have been that he was a traitor, so in order to protect himself, he had to make sure the North won at any cost. The same history books that write that Lincoln was a hero or a great man also write that guys like George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were great men even though they owned slaves.
People seem to forget Abraham Lincoln was a politician and didn't give a fuck about them or future generations of their families, and though it's time the country saw a female president, a female politician would do all the same things as a guy, because she would come from the same human/inhuman race as the male politicians and everyone else, and would be capable of any evil and human weakness a male politician was.
Abraham Lincoln by The Original Agahnim November 13, 2021
Chipmunk gangsta rap
This chipmunk gangsta rap sounds goofier than these dudes want it to, perhaps I should slow the turntable down so they sound more like the devil, that would sound really scary the way the rappers wanted it to, wouldn't it?
Chipmunk gangsta rap by The Original Agahnim November 12, 2021
Downfall
She wouldn't stop smiling because she still thought the guy thought he was better than people, and she did not want him to sad clown her because his infatuation was going to be his downfall.
Downfall by The Original Agahnim November 12, 2021
Plain
Nobody makes somebody plain or turns somebody plain, plain the way somebody already was before you met them, they just made themself appear/seem more colorful than they actually were.
Making an observation of how plain and bossy somebody is isn't the same thing as trying to boss them around, give them orders, or tell them falsehoods about what they're like. Telling somebody that isn't as colorful as they seem to think or pretend they are that they're plain is calling a spade a spade instead of a pickaxe. Perhaps the other person hearing it just doesn't like to hear criticism because they were spared (the rod) from hearing anything that didn't sound good as kids, and they expect to be praised rather than criticized, even if the criticism is not really unfair to them.
Plain by The Original Agahnim November 12, 2021