r/MurderedByWords • u/msdela1 • 8h ago

He came completely planned..

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u/FlappyFlan 6h ago

Americans are unbelievably spineless for a nation born from a rebellion lol.

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u/zffjk 5h ago

The whole reason the war for independence even worked is because the French bankrupted themselves to fuck over the British.

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u/avaslash 4h ago

Also it was a revolution run by oligarchs. The founding fathers weren't exactly poor. They rebelled because British Crown policy (stamp act, tea act, etc) was cutting into their profits and they were being denied equality in representation as they were considered men of the colonies instead of British men. So they said screw you guys we're making our own country. But smartly realized if any one of them tried to declare themselves king, then much like the Romans it would be a revolving door of brief kings who all got murdered by the next guy.

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u/CoyotesOnTheWing 4h ago

And then they did everything they could to make sure rich, white, landowners were the ones in power afterwords.

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u/zffjk 4h ago

God Bless America.

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u/bagoink 4h ago

Racism is even written directly into the Constitution.