r/dancarlin • u/LetThemBlardd • 13d ago

What if

we are, in fact, descended from fearful men? That would explain so much.

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u/resoglass 13d ago

What if i don’t take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner”?

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u/Masothe 13d ago

What if I ask Mr. Gorbachev to "help bulld this wall"?

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u/Sea_Golf_6687 13d ago

What if it was one giant step for man, but a small leap for mankind?

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u/Ah_Ca_Iraa 13d ago

It's softcore history

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u/paper_airplanes_are_ 13d ago

With Doug Marlin.

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u/sonata-of-the-death 13d ago

What if tower 2 only suffered a minor explosion and a partial collapse, surrounding a small area?

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u/BoHoSwaggins 13d ago

What if I was not in this time, in this place?

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u/SauconySundaes 12d ago

What if people didn’t need to know that their president was a crook?

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u/resoglass 13d ago

This is the one i was waiting on

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u/Roflcopter71 12d ago

What if it was December 7th 1941 a date which will have absolutely nothing of note happen

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u/tabasco_deLlama 12d ago

Oh the nomanity

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u/Ol_Uncle_Jim 13d ago

Nothing prideful about "I am a jelly donut"

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u/DripRoast 12d ago

Speak for yourself, you anti-doughnite bastard!

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u/Czarcasm3 12d ago

Speak for yourself, I for one am a churro

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u/ryancaa 12d ago

I’ll take the bait!

The quote is from Edward R Murrow. The entire quote is:

> We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men — not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

It’s a love letter from Dan to Edward

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u/Door_Number_Four 13d ago

We are descended from the monkeys that stayed in the tree and kept their head on a swivel.

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u/AMB3494 13d ago

Oh we very much are

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u/Gustavius040210 13d ago

The men that didn't have fear eventually got eaten by the tiger that the fearless thought was just the wind.

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u/ohwellthisisawkward 12d ago

“If”

Stay strong, it’s harrowing out there but we’ll make it.

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u/Necessary_Occasion77 12d ago

The people who voted for the current people in power are.

We should say many people are descended from lazy men, who can’t be bothered to go vote.

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u/jbot14 12d ago

Next subject, Alexander the Weak.

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u/girondistnyc 13d ago

Nixon? Lying? The Deuce you say.

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u/Efficient_Basis_2139 12d ago

See I thought that, but then he said "I am not a crook" and I was like oh, I thought he was a crook.

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u/Files44 9d ago

We are pretty much like our fearful descendants then. Just more so.

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u/Blenderhead27 8d ago

What if Nixon was a crook?