Ahemmmmm…

  • ssillyssadass@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Americans (in 1775): Declares war with one of the most powerful empires in history over taxes

    The French: Decapitates the upper classes due to hoarding wealth and creating class imbalance

    Haitians: Fights against their former masters in the name of freedom and the end of slavery

    The French (again): Fights back against one of the most cruel regimes in history to free their occupied homeland from Nazi rule

    Americans (now): “Oh I hope that if the message on my sign is passive aggressive enough the fascists will leave the government out of shame.”

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      2 days ago

      The Boston Tea party got started because of a tax cut from the British Empire. It was a whole different bunch declaring war than what people are lead to believe.

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        Yeah, you need the wealthy with time and resources to be on your side or else you are just the peasants revolting which they all already think we are.

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            Yeah. The smugglers were making bank though.
            Its kinda the rule that the government is filled with old mafia once they realize they can make a lot of money being the government.

            So I guess in this case we need the companies that are acting as mafia to want the change. Which brings us back to the wealthy.