Ryan Hanley
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Certainly not.
He made plenty of bad decisions, but those were bad decisions as bombs are being dropped on his head
Yes.
While his people are dying in the streets from the Blitzkrieg, he's trying to make the best decisions he can with the information he has, and yeah, a couple of them didn't go the way that he wanted, and now we're going to position him as the bad guy?
Like, you've lost touch with history if that's an argument that you're willing to make.
And I know that the guy that ultimately that was started off of, that wasn't actually the argument he was made, he was taken out of context, I get all that part, but...
it just hit me how hard we have lost touch.
And then I was talking to a friend of mine who, you know, is a good dude, tends to skew a little more left, but in general a good dude.
And he made this off-the-cuff comment that blew me away.
It was something like he was referencing the early 1900s as if,
they were archaic, like Neanderthals, you know, drumming on wood and barely could understand fire.
And I was like, they're us, bro.
Like, those are us.
They are no different than we, they're in the same exact plots we're having right now.
They were having back then.
So like you, you're, you're trying to, because maybe they didn't have cell phones.
You're somehow thinking that they're less sophisticated of human beings or they didn't not dealing with the same emotional pain that we are.
Like, are you fucking crazy?
Half of them would go days without eating.
You know what I mean?