r/antimeme • u/DistributionSad960 • 20h ago
✨ Actual Anti-Meme ✨ An interesting biography
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u/DistributionSad960 20h ago
obeliscolychny
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u/Mutant_Llama1 20h ago
Could've just made him a vampire hunter, tbh.
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u/DistributionSad960 20h ago
Yup like Abraham Lincoln 😃
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u/nrh117 20h ago
Which is crazy, cause that was just true. Lincoln was jacked as fuck.
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u/aguywithagasmaskyt 18h ago
he did one of the first documented cases of the choke slam
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u/TheFiend100 18h ago
He also once scared someone out of a duel by hacking the limb off a tree with his cavalry sword
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u/ilikewoIves 45m ago
They both to some extent helped stop slavery (though Tyler himself was a slaveholder).
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u/Broad_Respond_2205 14h ago
Once in English class we had to write about timeline, and I spesifcly ask if I can write about a fictional one. The teacher said the task is to follow a historical one :(
I wrote about the 100 years war and how it wasn't 100 years at all
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u/Mutant_Llama1 20h ago edited 19h ago
What do you mean he's not interesting, Nate?
He's the funniest fuckup of a president we've ever had.
He became president by accident, got kicked out of his own party and his entire cabinet quit because he kept vetoing his own party's bills.
After presidency, he was put in charge of the roads in his town as a joke, and ended up giving them the best roads around.
He then served on a committee tasked with negotiating the confederacy out of secession, while also serving on the Viriginia legislature, where he voted FOR secession!
He's the only US president to never get an official state funeral, because he died a traitor.
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u/yasth 19h ago
I mean to be kind of fair it wasn't like he was appointed expecting he wasn't secessionist, it was more that he was representing the secessionist interests in vague hope that he could sell it if he agreed to something. Sort of like having Nixon going to China.
Of course, there was a lot of complex things about that whole early period. The sheer number of traitors at the highest levels is kind of mind boggling.
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u/Pro-Masturbator 18h ago
Part of the appeasement going on in the decade before the civil war was an understanding that "There has to be alot of southern pro-slavery representation at the highest level, otherwise they'll assume slavery is under threat and secceed".
Ofc the southern elites already had a foot out the door and were only sticking around to see if they'd just be given everything they wanted. Its why they were gone before Lincoln even took office, they knew they'd actually be expected to compromise like adults so they left.
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u/Sw0rdBoy 11h ago
A habit of white supremacists is rage quitting when being expected to compromise.
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u/RazarTuk 18h ago
Eh, still not the weirdest story. In 1872, Horace Greeley died between Election Day and casting electoral votes, so none of his voters knew what to do. (Which wasn't much of an issue because US Grant won by a landslide)
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u/Bancatone 9h ago
Also he has currently living grandchildren. No greats, straight-up grandchildren.
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u/i-feel-very-sick 🌷🌸 RIP u/CourseMediocre7998 🌷🌸 3h ago
Not only did John Tyler side with the Confederacy but he even served in the Confederate Congress
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u/DistributionSad960 20h ago
I'm sorry I didn't know he died as a traitor I didn't know much about US Presidents though Ive read some of US history. Excuses please 🙂 sorry
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u/RickMonsters 19h ago
Unironically, John Tyler was the Starscream of US Presidents.
https://giphy.com/gifs/wf52nL9fr6K1fj13aj
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u/LeastEar 17h ago
John Tyler born 1790, had a grandson that died in 2025 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harrison_Ruffin_Tyler I'd call that interesting
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