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Probably, yeah. Usually the purpose is to honor some notable dead citizen, and that doesn't require them to have been immensely important to the development of the country. Edward Elgar was on British currency despite being known because he was a composer, hardly the most vital thing to the history of the United Kingdom.
Well that depends. We have women on our money because britian said "fuck it lets have queens then" way back and we currently have one. Given that the queen appears on everything except the 5, 10, 50 and 100 bills though we don't have a lot of slots for other women, though I have no complaints with who we do have
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It`s very good to exaggerate for rhetorical effect
But when MLK started his "I have a dream" speech he didn't say "this nation will one day rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'eloquent rephrasing of Locke'"
That it happened... and that's about it.
Oh, there's also stuff about USS Constitution getting the nickname "Old Ironsides," Battle of New Orleans and how it happened after the war was technically already over, how the Star Spangled Banner was written and Washington DC was burned down.
Don't remember until my college years hearing about the other stuff, like how we started the war because we wanted Canada and though Napoleon was the perfect cover to nab in from the British, only for Napoleon to pick that year to try and invade Russia. How we burned Montreal to the ground, and how New Orleans was the rare victory in a string of almost embarrising defeats on land because everyone who commanded in the Revolutionary War was dead or retired and noone bothered to keep up with European-style warfare because most of the army was militia and most of their fighting experience since 1780 was skirmishes with Native Americans.
He also started the Barbary Wars when he refused to pay tribute to Algiers and Tripoli, which is something that I never heard about in school until college, and was supremely disappointed that such an interesting part of American History was hidden from me. I mean, US wages a war against pirates and they never have it in the history books!?
Locke: " It is evident that all human beings – as creatures belonging to the same species and rank and born indiscriminately with all the same natural advantages and faculties – are equal amongst themselves"
and
"This equality of men by nature, the judicious Hooker looks upon as so evident in itself, and beyond all question, that he makes it the foundation of that obligation to mutual love amongst men, on which he builds the duties they owe one another, and from whence he derives the great maxims of justice and charity."
It wasn't even copying Locke, it was a reference.
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The US did pay off the Barbary States for some time; Jefferson had decided to put the Navy that he fought so hard to put down under the Washington/Adams administration to good use.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
You left out the part where the British parked their ships in US waters and stopped ships in order to capture American citizens and force them into the British Navy.
Edit: Doing some quick research, claims that the war was started to annex Canada are mostly from Canadians. US historians can't even agree on whether or not we would have kept Canada if we'd conquered it.
People (even some people who are well versed in the life and times of Andrew Jackson) are resistant to change when that change is occurring in one of the cornerstones of American identity. We're a capitalist country, our currency is a big fuckin' deal, basically. It's the reason all of the proposals to eliminate the penny haven't gained traction.
In a related note, I'm pretty sure that we would have gained at least another state or two over the past 50+ years (since Alaska and Hawaii in '59) if our flag hadn't have been designed with representative stars on it.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
But Jackson was such a consistently terrible human being that I'm willing to make an exception.
He shares company on the backs of the 5 and the 10 with MLK and the women's suffrage movement. Also the change won't happen until 2020 at the earliest, likely 2030. Also ice cream will now contain an assortment of flies in celebration of spider peace
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
They're doing some other cool stuff tho, like putting historical scenes on the backs of some of the other bills.
*not really but kinda y'know?
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Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
As I learned it (in college more than HS though I did get some there as well) the whole "drafting of US Sailors" thing wasn't much of an issue to the people whose actual sailors were being drafted, largely because most of the people who actually ended up being drafted were British sailors who had jumped over to the US to try and avoid being drafted into the navy, so the people it actually affected weren't complaining too much. Most of the arguments and complaints came from Southerners, mostly slaveholders, who wanted war with Britain for the main reason of taking land from Native American nations that were allied to England. They needed an excuse to fight Britain for a short time and push their allies of their land, and the British taking American sailors, and "freeing" Canada from British control, were two excellent excuses. Excuses which people who had most of the sailors and ships, and who actually lived next to Canada, did not buy for a goddamn second. But Southerners had far more control of the US government at the time, so war is what we got.
Yeah, taking land from Native Americans that the British were supporting was definitely a major factor in actually declaring war. Actually annexing Canada was likely not a primary goal.
But either way, the whole sailor thing makes a damn good casus belli. If tomorrow China parked ships off of California and started stopping American vessels and kidnapping American citizens, we'd probably be at war within the week.
I mean to me the big thing is that although it was a pretty decent casus belli in terms of appearances at least, because at least some US sailors were drafted even if not many, Northern States were opposed to it because they thought going to war with Britain was a bad idea, especially since, as aforementioned, they contributed the majority of sailors and ships the US had. So if war broke out between the US and Britain, it would be mostly northern Sailors and Ships who would have to contend with the British Navy, and Northern soldiers who would have to invade Canada, whereas the South would be stealing land from Native Americans. The North recognized this would be a raw deal, and were opposed to the whole thing.
Otherwise I agree. The American view that it was solely about the sailors and the Canadian view that it was solely about conquering Canada are both self-serving ways to look at the war. For that reason they should get extra scrutiny.
Edit: One of the best points is that to see how horrible he was, one only need look to his predecessor, the exceptional JQ Adams, who still holds up well even when held to modern perspectives.
To the Bounty Hunters, that proved that they were mistaken, since the fugitive Harriet Tubman was widely known to be illiterate.
Which was true, Harriet couldn't read, but used the book as a prop.
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Fuck Joe Manchin
Poor people are going to be using cash for a very long time.
They tried to bury us. They didn't know that we were seeds. 2018 Midterms. Get your shit together.
I've shifted almost entirely to cash over the last four years. Sure, I'm poor, but it's also really hard to try and steal my credit card number if I'm using cash for 95% of everything I do. I'll consider switching when RFID catches on faster and in far greater numbers.
Anyway, I don't care if Jackson stays on the front or back. I don't care who they put on the money since it spends the same no matter what. But when people start complaining that it's all about PC or erasing history or whatever dumbass thing pops into their heads, then I say we put people like Andrew Carnegie, JP Morgan, and Cornelius Vanderbilt on them. Let us remind the world what our money is really fucking all about.
Do not engage the Watermelons.
That's what all the Freemason and Illuminati imagery is for.
That's a classy sword.
And she wasn't afraid to use it - either on slavers pursuing them, or on anyone who got cold feet, because she wasn't leaving liabilities behind.
We need to just go to polymer notes already.
Doc: That's right, twenty five years into the future. I've always dreamed on seeing the future, looking beyond my years, seeing the progress of mankind. I'll also be able to see who wins the next twenty-five world series.
You gotta spend money to make money
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