• merc@sh.itjust.works
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    17 hours ago

    We do know that the colonists hated what they considered overreaching British control

    Do we? Or is that the story that has been written after the fact to justify what they did and make it seem more noble?

    It sounds to me like you’re a product of the US educational system and have accepted what you learned there without questioning it.

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      13 hours ago

      Yes we do, it’s literally the reason they left in the first place. There were protests all across the colonies, the British even repealed the Stamp Act due to the blowback. There are pamphlets, books, and vast quantities of recorded speeches and debates from both sides of the Atlantic on the issue. From before the revolution.

      Sounds to me like you’re a product of the Ignorant Blowhard educational system and have assumed you know everything about everything with little evidence to support the assumption.

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        13 hours ago

        Yes we do, it’s literally the reason they left in the first place.

        According to what you learned in an American elementary school?