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What is true patriotism?

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[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

No it wasn't...

America was "founded" because the people who got rich early from none forcement of smuggling didn't want to just stand by while the English government started to finally collect on due taxes.

It's fucking crazy people still believe the shit we learned in elementary school.

It was "new money" revolting against "old money" and they only won because the French royal family wouldn't too piss off the English royal so much it cost them their heads.

[–] Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't disagree with anything you said, but they did at least built a Constitution for We the people as opposed to a new world monarchy.

It's not completely evil and darkness nor completely rainbows and sunshine.

[–] homes@piefed.world 4 points 2 months ago

They did a lot better than those who came before them, and we can do a lot better than they did.

[–] snooggums@piefed.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"We the people" originally meant land owning white males, they just didn't have to write that part down.

[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 months ago

They did, they just didn't write it specifically in the foundational documents. It's in their letters, Jefferson in particular. It's in the Federalist Papers. It's all over their literature.

[–] homes@piefed.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

I didn’t say “honorable revolt”…

But it doesn’t need to be honorable…

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If that was a revolt then literally everything is a revolt, so why did you use a word that you believe to be meaningless and capitalize it like trump does?

[–] homes@piefed.world -1 points 2 months ago

Why is it my job to explain your interpretation of what I said?

Dont forget the bank fraud.

The "new money" that was the colonial elite became that way by:

  1. Stealing land from first nations, even when British Troops tried to help the natives.
  2. Bank fraud. Tactic was to get loans from London banks under a fake company in colony X, get the money and then move to another colony and repeat. One of the functions of the "intolerable act" known as the Stamp Act was to make said fraud functionally much harder to execute, which is actually why the elites pushed so hard against it.