• rumba@lemmy.zip
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    19 days ago

    Even forgetting the transgressions of the aristocracy back then, Sure Brittian were colonizers which is fucking awful, but then what did the colony do once it had freedom? Colonize the whole fucking landmass and only stop when they were adequately challenged to the north and south.

    We’re looknig in the fucking mirror

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      19 days ago

      I think it is absolutely ridiculous comparing these two symbols. Loyalists were not going around bombing and murdering people. It was the wealthy colonists involved in a conspiracy to take control so they could enrich themselves. Everything else is just propaganda.

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        18 days ago

        Yes that’s what pursuit of happiness means. One of our main gripes with Britain was that they were enriching themselves with our natural resources and then selling the finished products back to us at huge surcharges. We threw off the yolk of a colonial empire.

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          18 days ago

          Yeah, not buying it. It was a bunch of wealthy shitheads who did a lot of horrible things and produced probably the most destructive nation in history.