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He was literally shot during a speech but continued speaking for an entire hour while bleeding out. Sounds like actual adversity to me. You're free to try that
by 1970-01-01 3y ago
He was literally shot during a speech but continued speaking for an entire hour while bleeding out. Sounds like actual adversity to me. You're free to try that and prove history wrong.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-roosevelt-shot-in-milwaukee https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/theodore-rooseve...
- ramesh31 3y agoAnd my entire point being that that was dumb. It doesn't make him tough. It makes him an egomaniacal idiot to have not sought treatment.
- 1970-01-01 3y ago>It doesn't make him tough. I guess your definition and mine are incompatible. The forensic evidence is quite clear: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Political_address_by_Theodore_Roosevelt_through_which_the_bullet_passed_when_the_attempt_was_made_to_assassinate_him_at_Milwaukee_in_1912.pdf&page=2 https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=File:Political_ad...
- r053bud 3y agoGod forbid you fact check American mythology!
- seryoiupfurds 3y agoLazy dismissal based on broad ideological grandstanding isn't "fact checking", although sadly many "fact checkers" don't seem to understand that.
- r053bud 3y agoNo, I know. I needed to drop a /s in there and realized I'm not on Reddit.