• PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world
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    4 hours ago

    The founders were mostly slave/land owning robber barons. Washington was one of the most wealthiest people in the colonies…

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      Yeah the only reason they didn’t want to remain a colony was because they thought they could become more wealthy personally breaking off from the British empire, seizing more land from the natives, and taking more land from Britain’s other colony of Canada.

      Then bind all the states and their settlers and natives by saddling them with national debt to lock them into a unfettered capitalist experiment on an unexploited resource rich land with the moral framework of civilising and subsuming the native population.