I was listening to CNBC and CNN on XM last night and good fucking grief Americans love the smell of their own shit. So many “we are the shining light of the world, the best democracy, what will the world do now?”
A lot of us will just keep living our free lives, you fucking assholes*.
(Them, not you, dear reader.)
@tewha You have free lives because America had nukes. And before that because we shot the English when nobody else would.
Someone must've done an alt-history of no American Revolution, but it'd be a bleak English bootheel world. Without us, there'd be only monarchies and dictatorships.
America's a fuckup country a lot of the time, like now, but we still do set the tone for the rest of the world, which is why the GOP administration years have been so bad.
@alsoknownas @tewha The English abolished it because they wanted to hurt the Dutch economically, they never did anything for ethical reasons. And "abolished slavery" may come as some surprise to the Indians, who weren't free of the English until 1947.
The US is not a single monolithic place. The free states abolished slavery in 1794-1807, but the slave/Confederate states we had to shoot to make them stop 60 years later.
History books are a thing. You should read one.
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