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after 18 years on this earth i have finally obtained The best search results ever. did i get the "1690s justaucorps [filter: pink]" that i wanted? no. did i get something a thousand times better? yes. peak search engine performance. never show me what i want ever again.

#puritanposting #<- i fucking guess #shitpost #choosing to ignore the heinous date range

Did you guys know that there are Actual Real-Life Puritans™️ you can find online on puritanboard where they hang out and *checks notes* argue if the Puritan injunctions against long hair should be interpreted based on their idea of long hair or on ours?

#puritanposting #it's so funny 😭

WHY does this exist and WHY does Increase look like that. Dude was literally a twink

#increase mather #puritanposting #look how they massacred my boy...

This is so funny to me. (Winthrop's explaining here some of the reasons for and against formally codifying the laws)

"We could never go against English laws!! 😠 By which, of course, I mean that we can't put it in writing when we do."

#puritans #new england history #puritanposting

Alexis de tocqueville i love you i am kissing you on the lips "puritanism was almost as much a political theory as a religious doctrine" YES YOU GET IT. WHY DOES EVERYONE IGNORE THIS. also i am in love with your theory that places the puritans as the main ancestor of late 1700s american democracy bc yeah there's a shitton of enlightenment influence there but we also had a long democratic tradition that started before the english and scottish enlightenments and remained a core value in many places even as america was somewhat intellectually isolated from much of the enlightenment. so imo there's a dual origin there. tj got his ideas from locke & co but at the same time the citizens in massachusetts were fighting for self-governance simply bc that's what they'd been doing for the past hundred and fifty years. and i also love how u compare the new england democracies w the southern democracies, cause yeah, va had definitely started leaning more towards aristocracy but bc of the 17thC puritan views on land ownership and social equality the puritan democratic tradition was rather more egalitarian

apologies for the rant aka spewing out my thoughts to a dead author but. started reading tocqueville's book out of curiosity and went mildly insane the second he mentioned the puritans. imma eventually post the essay i wrote for english abt the puritans and i'll add in a section talking abt tocqueville. i also need to make it like ten times longer bc word limits suck

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The 1600's gang™️ as funny shirts that I found

Roger Williams: (he gets the basic one. it fits tho)