#mormons

This is such a good, succinct way of describing the illusion of choice many fundamentalist women and men have when it comes to life paths.

I gave Kearon a tie

peter: i just feel like they’ve really got something special

John Moses Browning, after several years of working with Winchester, wanted to be paid royalties on his patents, and Winchester denied paying royalties. Since he had operated as a flat rate per patent, that's all they were willing to give him, so he went elsewhere. First he went to Remington, but that deal didn't quite go through until much later. But then he went on a trip to Europe, and a company that was nearly bankrupt called Fabrique Nationale in Belgium, ended up purchasing a couple of his designs, and he helped bring the company back from the verge of bankruptcy. Fabrique Nationale took one of his designs and created the Model 1910 pistol, also known as the Model 1910 Browning, which was a very popular pistol in Europe. In 1914 in Sarajevo, a man by the name of Gavrilo Princip took a Model 1910 Browning pistol that was created in Liège, Belgium, and shot Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary with it. The assassination of the Archduke with the Model 1910 pistol kicked off the First World War. It's a direct line, but Joseph Smith is not directly responsible for it, and you can argue, yes, Gavrilo Princip could have used any other type of handgun, but he didn't. He used a Model 1910 Browning, which was created by John Moses Browning, who wouldn't exist if it wasn't for the Mormons, and his father converting to Mormonism and taking a second wife, and Mormonism wouldn't exist if it wasn't for Joseph Smith. So in a direct line of causation, Joseph Smith is responsible for the start of World War I. But you can go beyond that, because World War I fundamentally changed the entire structure of the world. So the modern world as it sits can be blamed on fucking Mormons.