President Joe Biden on Wednesday awarded the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry to two Union soldiers who stole a locomotive deep in Confederate territory during the Civil War and drove it north for 87 miles (140 kilometers) as they destroyed railroad tracks and telegraph lines.
Tbf they were his childhood friends
I would make the same joke about trump, but we all know he didn’t have any childhood friends.
And we also know that none of his acquaintances fought for the union.
And that’s more of a fact than a joke… I read too much is never enough. He was a very delusional child and so much of that was the fault of his father. Not that that is any excuse for him as an adult to do the shit he does. It just explains it
This is a pretty amazing story. Dope pick actually.
For those that would like the story told with a little stylized flair:
https://nebula.tv/videos/extrahistory-civil-war-train-heist-the-first-medals-of-honor-us-history/
Is this also the plot of Buster Keaton’s The General?
The story leaves out they were school mates
Cool cool, but don’t we have more important things to do right now, like preserving democracy?
We saw a last vestiges of that 30 years ago
Maybe they were also the ones who stole his trains of thought.
one day we will have the time for the people in the here and now
Pardon Snowden?
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Read it, don’t understand how this is relevant to Snowden.
Instead of giving medals of Honor to a bunch of dead people he could actually be doing something serious by pardoning whistleblowers that were targeted by the Obama administration
Pep was drunk. that’s it. you’re trying to defend and give meaning to a mistaken drunk post.
I agree with it, as usually they are performative instead of substantive
Pay more attention to the comment threading, your reply is not relevant to what I’m talking about.
Pardon Snowden?
That’s how this thread started, how exactly would my reply not be relevant to the thread?
Tell me you didn’t actually go back and recheck the conversation without telling me.
Because in reply to “pardon Snowden” someone posted an irrelevant link about Trump pardons and that link is what I replied to. If you actually read the conversation you’ll see they were drunk and don’t know why they posted it either.
So it sounds like the only thing irrelevant in this entire thread was the post comment you replied to. My remarks on Snowden are relevant to the thread because the thread started as a topic about Snowden.
I’m genuinely confused on what this is supposed to mean
Hmm. Me too. Pretty sure I had a point but I was a bit drunk and couldn’t articulate it. I don’t think I meant to post it. Oops.
