Randahl FinkFeb 9, 2025

All my life I have been listening to the excuse, that the US had to be flooded with weapons, because if a dictator ever came to power, these weapons were the guarantee that the people could defend the US against the dictator.

They did not.

They voted for him.

Show threadJürgen Hubert
@randahl Weren't all those weapons originally intended to put down slave rebellions?
Feb 9, 2025 at 5:09amWeb
Show threadThe Sleight Doctor 🃏🍉Feb 9, 2025

@juergen_hubert @randahl Yes. Defending a white ethnostate. Even mainstream economics was formulated with this aim.

https://evonomics.com/how-to-disguise-racism-and-oligarchy-use-the-language-of-economics/

How to Disguise Racism and Oligarchy: Use Economics - Evonomics

James McGill Buchanan is a name you will rarely hear unless you’ve taken several classes in economics.

Evonomics
Show threadJanisFeb 9, 2025
@juergen_hubert @randahl And the steel belt sold them to 'em. It's how The north, and Capitalist Republicans won.
Show threadMartin Vermeer FCDFeb 9, 2025
@juergen_hubert @randahl Yep. Those 'well-regulated militia' were slave patrols. It's very openly described in contemporary documents. You know, the kind that could be explored in an educational setting...