• GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    They really do be thinking that USA is some philosopher king of the world, don't they?

    • UlyssesT [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      One of the more glasses-on moments for me as a nascent leftist was realizing that the quasi-deified Founding Fathers(tm) were almost entirely just 1700s equivalent of today's creepy techbros, including sus sex predator stuff.

      • Poogona [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        The Counter-Revolution of 1776 has some great sections about how the only people worse than the Royal African Company for a slave were the American small business hustlegrinders who tried to cut the small costs of food and proper lodging the RAC treated as the simple cost of flesh-trading.

        We are living in the griftlands