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FTA: "In 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy." I like the sly use of "what they saw" -
by NordStreamYacht 4mo ago
FTA:
"In 1776 the American colonists rebelled against what they saw as the arbitrary and tyrannical British monarchy."
I like the sly use of "what they saw" - typical British snark.
- JuniperMesos 4mo agoThere's plenty of American historiography that questions the motivations of the American revolution and how tyrannical the British monarchy was actually.
- amanaplanacanal 4mo agoI would guess that average folks living under the "tyrannical British monarchy" had as much or more freedom than Americans do now.
- NordStreamYacht 4mo agoProbably more. The digital world has made us unwitting prisoners.
- The-Old-Hacker 4mo agoRosa Brooks, the author of the piece, is American. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosa_Brooks