I appreciate the sentiment of this, but it’s not quite right, at least in my view.
The founding fathers / revolution movement had some merit, don’t get me wrong, but it was also the movement of a bunch of drunk farmers and yuppies pouring molten tar on top of tax collectors simply for the crime of being a tax collector. They were much closer to the January 6th types in that way (though obviously a direct comparison can’t be made).
Sometimes you just can’t make a 1:1 comparison between the past and the present and I’m a firm believer that 18th century politics is a huge example of that. Things are just too complex and many issues don’t neatly align with what we consider party boundaries to be today.
A while back some MAGoo posted about how immigrants were all criminals. Highly irate when I pointed out that ‘indentured servants’ were the gutter sweepings of England, and that France would forcibly make male colonists marry women imprisoned for prostitution.
Th English even turned a blind eye to smuggling for a long time. But eventually they started wanting their tax money, so they confiscated a couple smugglers, drastically limiting their supply. While shipping a bunch of legal tea and selling it cheap to get people used to buying cheap tea in stores legally.
In response a bunch of smugglers paid some people to dress as Native Americans and throw the legal tea into the harbor. Because now all tea was in short supply, everyone raised prices and the smugglers were able to stay operating and even lobby France to pay for a proxy war and provide generals as a “fuck you” to the English, which was like the French’s favorite pass time.
America was never about Americans tossing out a tyrant ruler.
Our country was founded on the rich dicking over the average American so they could accumulate more wealth and power personally.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. This is pretty accurate. American history as taught in American schools is essentially indoctrination where all the bad parts are removed.
On a website most people make posts that are barely two sentences…
It never surprises me how often people bitch that I didn’t cover ever single facet of an issue after typing paragrpaghs.
Like, my comments are already usually long enough people don’t read it all, but I still always get these (incredible short) comments mad that I didn’t spend two hours writing and sources my social media comments.
However it’s not merely transmitting information. The manner in which one speaks, what words one chooses, attention to detail, et cetera.
If people commented on my style of driving on a regular basis, I’d say least entertain the idea that there was something about it I could improve upon.
Your former comment beside the point because that served as an example.
This comment is besides the point as I didn’t claim that the people would be correct, but that it would serve as a reason in order to entertain the idea that three might be something could be ameliorated about the style of communicating/driving/whatever.
If a couple of people told you your breath smelled, you’d probably check, just in case, no?
Imagine thinking summarizing quantum mechanics to dogs is the equivalent to summarizing the Revolutionary War to Lemmy users. We’re all people here, and I promise you there isn’t such an intellect difference you need to dumb it down that much.
You’re unfair, inaccurate, misleading, and biased in your explanation of what happened while attempting to sound authoritative, that’s why you’re criticized.
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