• Nonconfrontational@lemmy.ml
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    1 month ago

    The experiment started with genocide, then slavery, and never really stopped doing either. They’ve been at war for all but roughly 20 years of their 250 year existence. Tens of millions of dead civilians around the world.

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      1 month ago

      I would argue that’s a holdover from the Europeans and while they became more enlightened and peaceful the Americans took no lessons

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          30 days ago

          Europe ain’t my rope to swing on

          Can’t learn a thing from it

          Yet we hang from it