• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I mean, we got treated better than any colony…

    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.

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        8 months ago

        that isn’t such crude reductionism;

        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.

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          8 months ago

          If you always get that kind of comment, maybe you have a habit of phrasing things in an unnuanced manner

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            8 months ago

            If I tried to explain quantum mechanics to my dog, it wouldn’t matter how good of a job I did.

            And even if Roger Penrose or another expert spent years, they’d get the same result.

            So it’s just a question of how much time someone is willing to spend on a task almost guaranteed to fail.

            Like going into details in the hopes every idiot online understands every part of what you said.

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              8 months ago

              Of course communication is a two way street.

              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.

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                8 months ago

                Depends where you are. If you are on Itsly or Portugal the people commenting on your driving style would probably be in the wrong.

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                    8 months ago

                    Not really, the point being “the fact that many people share an opinion does not make that opinion correct”.

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              8 months ago

              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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              8 months ago

              You didn’t include the underrepresented African Americans in your comment, thus making it invalid. /s

              I thought it was a great summary, and have no problem understanding your comments. FWIW

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      8 months ago

      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.

      Many of the founding fathers were shitty people.