• Ð Greıt Þu̇mpkin@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    The founders were slave oligarchs, the tyranny they were keeping the citizens armed to defend against was Haiti.

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      11 months ago

      What the fuck are you talking about…do you just make shit up in your head? They wanted everyone armed because they just fought and defeated the world’s strongest military at the time…

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        11 months ago

        If that was genuinely the reason a significant faction of them wouldn’t have been arguing in favor of trade deals with them instead of France, the country that basically won the war for us at sea.