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    Negative.

    This country was founded by the colonies’ Uber rich, because they didn’t want to pay taxes. Mission accomplished.

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      Seriously only a handful of the founding fathers were based, or even liberal.

      The most powerful founding fathers were obscenely wealthy slave owners who used their power in government to keep the wealthy on top, reduce taxes, and even personally stop attempts to end slavery.

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      The avg American pays ~40% of their earned income to taxes either through income tax or all the other taxes that are payed day to day

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        Yes…the average American pays ~40% of their income in taxes. The uber rich Americans pay much much less, if anything at all.

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        The rich dont because for decades conservatives successfully convinced half the population that if we feed the rich some more oats, itll trickle down to the rest of us. Well guess what? The only thing that trickles down from an overfed horse is piss and horseshit.

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    I live in NYC. I’m nowhere near England, as far as I can tell. I would love to visit England one day, though. Much love to any Londoners or English people reading this.

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    Some of us are, but most of us aren’t. DC citizens have been doing it for so long they put it on their license plates.

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    Image Transcription:

    A sepia-tone picture of 3 of the founding fathers of America: Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, the former two of which are seated and the third is standing around a small circular table covered in paperwork, quills and ink.

    Over the image is the text:

    "We are now living in a country

    our founding fathers fought to escape"

    [I am a human, if I’ve made a mistake please let me know. Please consider providing alt-text for ease of use. Thank you. 💜]

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    Only if you live in DC or Puerto Rico (or other US territories)

    Not really sure what uniting cause beyond “No taxation without representation” you think the Founding Fathers held in common.

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        One of the reasons, yeah. Enlightenment thinkers were straight horny for the classical and merchant republics.

        Now if you look at those republics from a modern lens you go “Oh, that’s where the damage came from” but compared to divine right monarchies mid-colonization the Founding Fathers were woke af.

        That all said, all slave owners in history were objectively evil. There is not a single one that didn’t know it too.

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      Bold move, being pro-slavery where other people can hear you. Let’s see if it works out for you.

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        you misunderstand me… the South has arisen around us… they call it Trumpistan now… they own the Supreme Court and put a dotard in the Oval Office…

        the South is winning by subversion

        how the fuck did that look pro-slavery… nevermind i don’t want to know…

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          i had to re-read it a few times. It sounded like you were saying lincoln destroyed america, so now we have this f’d up situation But I think you meant Lincoln destroyed the confederacy, and now the confederate states have effectively returned and wrestled power from the US institutions. I think that bridges a comm gap?