• Sunflier@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    The American Revolution, the violent uprising that gave these assholes governmental power, proves otherwise.

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      2 days ago

      Though the ideas espoused for the revolution might be grand, the cause and motivation behind those who joined the revolution was purely monetary.

      • Rich didn’t like being taxed so they made their slaves join the army.
      • George Washington didn’t like the fact that the British having lost the French Indian war made a pact with the Indians which stopped his business of prospecting.

      The American revolution was a war of businessmen against the government in England. The government was and is the same; in the past only rich, land owning white men could vote or form government. Now it is the corporations or rich white men.

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          1 hour ago

          There have been a few that weren’t violent, too. Portugal, Czechoslovakia, Ukraine getting rid of their Russian-installed quisling, South Korea.

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      I say this as an American. Half the “Founding Fathers” were slave owners and did not see a problem with subgrating other humans into forced labor. The American enterprise has been a business all the way back to the first white man setting foot on this continent. I guess I just proved you talking point.

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        “How is it that we hear the loudest yelps for liberty among the drivers of negroes?”

        as Samuel Johnson argued during the American revolution. Apologies for unenlightened 18th-century language.

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          It is OK. I got my Masters in 18th and 19th century lit. Johnson was right on the money with that quote and I say that as an American.