Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
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#2i would enjoy a VR game where i could sit in an old tavern while i drink an actual beer
Re: Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
#3i would enjoy a VR game where i could sit in an old tavern while i drink an actual beer
I mean that sounds pretty easy to set up on your own. Just some VRML or VRchat plus one of the "pub" discord servers (with VRchat you wouldn't need the discord part.)
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#4i would enjoy a VR game where i could sit in an old tavern while i drink an actual beer
I believe this was referenced as a VR game demo in the show Silicon Valley.
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#5i would enjoy a VR game where i could sit in an old tavern while i drink an actual beer
This is basically Westworld
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#6> By 1775, however, sporadic rioting and violence in and around taverns transitioned into outright war when a group of ‘minute men’ gathered at the Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, just before murdering more than 70 British troops.
Murder of the British is a strange take on the events of Lexington and Concord. The author appears to be scraping.
Is the assertion that the taverns caused public life to take a different course than it would have otherwise, or just that they were the place where public life occurred?
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#7One of my great-grandfather's stories was that soon after immigrating from Poland he and his father found work mining coal in Indian Country (soon to become Oklahoma). The family lived in a shack abutting the local tavern. Everybody (including at least 3 children) slept on the floor due to the frequent bullets coming from the tavern.
Re: Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
#8> By 1775, however, sporadic rioting and violence in and around taverns transitioned into outright war when a group of ‘minute men’ gathered at the Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, just before murdering more than 70 British troops. Murder of the British is a strange take on the events of Lexington and Concord. The author appears to be scraping. Is the assertion that the taverns caused publ…
He has some, ah, unique takes scattered throughout:
> American forces – well, the French and Spanish forces, along with the sputtering Americans – managed to win the American Revolution in 1783.
Make no mistake, the French forces were key, but to lay the victory at the feet of the Spanish ahead of the Americans throws the whole piece into question.
Re: Violent, lively and brash, taverns were everywhere in early colonial America
#9> By 1775, however, sporadic rioting and violence in and around taverns transitioned into outright war when a group of ‘minute men’ gathered at the Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, just before murdering more than 70 British troops. Murder of the British is a strange take on the events of Lexington and Concord. The author appears to be scraping. Is the assertion that the taverns caused publ…
> As is still so often the case when white, powerful men felt threatened, they banded together to create, and separate, the ‘other’.
This was gratuitous too. Out-group formation happens across all cultures regardless of ethnicity or sex.
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#10> By 1775, however, sporadic rioting and violence in and around taverns transitioned into outright war when a group of ‘minute men’ gathered at the Buckman Tavern in Lexington, Massachusetts on 19 April 1775, just before murdering more than 70 British troops. Murder of the British is a strange take on the events of Lexington and Concord. The author appears to be scraping. Is the assertion that the taverns caused publ…
> As is still so often the case when white, powerful men felt threatened, they banded together to create, and separate, the other.
What, this is a behavior specific to white, powerful men?
What went down in and around Lexington and Concord was a more serious crime than murder, it was an act of rebellion.
The author appears committed to a particular affect which seems out of context with the history he presents.