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[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The US was founded on slavery and genocide / conquest of hundreds of indigenous nations. It's rotten to the core.

[–] crusa187@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, and many of those founders were rich businessmen who didn’t want to pay taxes to the king of England. This is a human problem, not a national one.

[–] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

George washington, franklin, jefferson, madison, all the founders were slave-owning colonizers who explicitly modelled their country after ancient Rome.

It's not a human problem, these were specifically evil people who did not share the same values as the people they murdered and enslaved.

Most countries were not founded in this way.