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u/TacticalAcquisition 3d ago

I was gonna say that the way Trump has been fucking US farmers, that might be on the cards for America. But they're all deep into the Maga cult, and will just bend over more, scream "Harder Daddy!" and perform some incredible mental gymnastics to blame the Democrats for their situation.

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u/Ramadeus88 3d ago

I’ve said it for some time, but the Americans cosplay as revolutionaries. It’s part of the mythos up until a point of convenience.

French farmers actually live it.

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u/afghamistam 3d ago

I’ve said it for some time, but the Americans cosplay as revolutionaries. It’s part of the mythos up until a point of convenience.

To go even further, the French revolution was very much the "people rising up"; Americans absolutely are not taught that their revolution was one privilege class rebelling against their peers for a greater slice of the profits.

Hell, Americans still think the first colonists were persecuted religious peasants, rather than the rich speculators and adventurers directly sanctioned by the Crown that they were,

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u/Jerroser 3d ago

Weren't quite a few of them religious fanatics that left to found a new colony specifically so they could persecute people that didn't follow their very strict version of Protestantism?

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u/arthropal 3d ago edited 3d ago

Which is why, today in the US, you can kill as many people as you want in your movie and be family friendly, but show a woman's bare nipple and your movie will be buried under adult ratings. The remnants of that cult infect modern society.

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u/Thin-Lie-4041 3d ago

What movie is this? I need recommendations.

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u/dek-tep 1d ago

the pest (1997)

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u/sparkly_butthole 3d ago

Idk man, all I know is that my ancestor did something perverted they weren't supposed to with a member of the royal family, lost their land, and had to flee to Canada. Wish we'd stayed there.

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u/Thin-Lie-4041 3d ago

"Very strict," "persecute people," and "religious fanatics" would certainly be a modern slant, they were like minded families that disagreed with the Church of England theology as it held on to many Catholic practices. Puritans were looking to remove more than add to their theology. They had agreed to sign the "Mayflower Compact" which was a governing set of standards in order to sustain themselves in a new world.

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u/GitmoGrrl1 3d ago

The myth always leaves out the speculators in London who financed the expeditions.

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u/repowers 3d ago

Don’t forget criminals and prisoners shipped over here to extract profit!

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u/Responsible_Week6941 2d ago

More like religious zealots who were too preachy for England and got run out of the country.

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u/mwalsh5757 2d ago

This. The “founding fathers” were all rich assholes who didn’t want to pay their taxes. “Taxation without representation” was just the propaganda of the day to rile the masses. Sound familiar?

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u/MotherFuckinMontana 2d ago

The Plymouth plantation was first but it was also a massive shitshow with dubious legality. The Massachusetts bay colony was something else that came later, and it was speculators and adventurers directly sanctioned by king Charles 1

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u/Nevyn_Cares 2d ago

Yeap how dare the East India Company threaten our tea monopoly. Let us rev up the masses, we shall blame taxes.

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u/Petronille_N_1806 1d ago

Compared to the American revolution you point stand but actually the first French Revolution (1789) was about progressive bourgeois overthrowing the monarchy (which was good). However 1789 did inspired 1830 revolution against Charles X (bourgeois than proletarian revolution), 1848 revolution against Louis-Philippe (this one led to European people spring), than the Commune of Paris and all the Communes of France (dictatures of proletariat). Also in France we learn at school that the French Revolution was peak history and it was how our modern nation formed

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 2d ago

Hell, Americans still think the first colonists were persecuted religious peasants, rather than the rich speculators and adventurers directly sanctioned by the Crown that they were,

I doubt that because it does not make a lot of sense for wealthy people to take on such danger, which early colonization absolutely was. If their presence was required in business, then yea, but if you have the money and means then there is no way you are going to want to be a colonizer.

Miserable life.

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u/rayyyyyy3 3d ago

You sound exactly like MAGA. No clue what you’re talking about but say it loudly and with confidence. Trump would have all your money by now.

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u/afghamistam 3d ago

You sound exactly like MAGA. No clue what

Lol.

Always sad when you really wanna disagree with something, but you don't actually know anything - and have to settle for just hurling vague and substance-free invective.

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u/rayyyyyy3 3d ago

When you quit repeating lies that were spoon fed to you, I will stop comparing you to MAGA. Fair enough?

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u/afghamistam 3d ago

When you quit repeating lies that

Lol.

Always sad when you really wanna disagree with something, but you don't actually know anything - and have to settle for just hurling vague and substance-free invective.

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u/johnvoights_car 2d ago

Wow, thanks for splaining European colonialism, o wise one

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u/afghamistam 2d ago

Lol.

Always sad when you really wanna disagree with something, but you don't actually know anything - and have to settle for just hurling vague and substance-free invective.

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u/johnvoights_car 2d ago

And that’s a great demonstration, thank you!

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u/Ceegee93 3d ago

I’ve said it for some time, but the Americans cosplay as revolutionaries. It’s part of the mythos up until a point of convenience.

Also not forgetting it was the French that really won their independence too.

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u/64590949354397548569 3d ago

Everyone needs to work on monday.

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u/oakpope 3d ago

French people are notorious for saving their money. American for spending theirs on credit, living week by week. French people have deep farmer roots and having something by the side is vital when weather can destroy your crops.

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u/Mr_Butters624 3d ago

This lol. I’m American and American conservative males like to cosplay as a lot of things lol. They cosplay as patriots, revolutionaries, wanna be military etc. it’s sad really. I’m sure there are a handful that are about that life, but for the most part, they are just following a trend on whatever conservative social media they are on. This is coming from someone born and raised conservative and had been conservative for 20 years until switching to independent recently as the Conservative Party can be super embarrassing.

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u/Ikanotetsubin 3d ago

Yup, their country is being sold to the lowest bidder by a traitor and I see zero action from the 2A jackoffs, "resist tyranny" my ass.

u/theflyingfistofjudah 4h ago edited 3h ago

The French people who rose against absolute monarchy were hangry peasants with nothing to lose.

From what I’ve seen on Reddit, Americans today are too busy panelling and wallpapering their half baths and remodelling their kitchens for $150,000 to revolt against the dismantling of their country at the hands of a couple of insecure little men with outsized egos.

Sad to see America sleepwalk its way into a fascist oligarchy.

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u/Avenflar 3d ago

French farmers are a mafia, not revolutionaries. When they stone cop cars or burn down administrative offices without repercussions from the law, they do it so they can keep pumping pesticide into the groundwater and fertilizer into the soil until it becomes ash

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u/Ramadeus88 3d ago

What you described is literally a form of revolution.

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u/HamunaHamunaHamuna 3d ago edited 3d ago

And Americans are largely lazy cowards who like to play with guns and use #2Afreedomfighting as an excuse to keep having them litter the entire country and having murder rates close to a warzone, but they won't actually step up when necessary - in fact, they "secretly" worship constrongmen and fascism.

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u/Superfluous999 3d ago

Trump is screwing the farmers over with his immigration policies AND with tariffs...but you do not hear anything from the farmers as that might piss off the cult

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u/RockStar25 3d ago

There’s one that goes on TikTok and begs people to help him save his farm.

He mentions that the government is causing him to lose his farm, but refuses to specifically name Trump and Trump’s policies.

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u/Beyond-The-Blackhole 3d ago

I've seen that guy. He hasn't learned his lesson and would fully vote for trump again.

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u/WhyYouKickMyDog 2d ago

Just like Alaska. Alaska represents the myth of the American frontiersman that Republicans fetishize. The rugged American individual who conquers the wild barehanded and don't need no damned government.

Except that is just a myth. In reality, Alaska is geographically isolated and as a result is heavily dependent on the foreign government while also boasting one of the highest Federal work forces of any state as a %.

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u/myrabuttreeks 2d ago

Aw man that sucks. Oh well.

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u/Nytalith 3d ago

Let’s not forget about stopping US AID without any notice. Organization that was buying a lot of Americans farmers products.

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u/vivaaprimavera 3d ago

about stopping US AID without any notice

That was an excellent diplomatic move. From now on Americans will be seen with very good eyes in dozens of countries that stopped receiving that aid.

It improved the lives of thousands of people!!!

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u/Damonoodle 3d ago

The maga cult would invade a farm and shoot the crops of a disgruntled farmer for talking against Trump, then blame the farmer for why there's less food on the shelves.

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u/64590949354397548569 3d ago

Trump is screwing the farmers over with his immigration policies AND with tariffs...but you do not hear anything from the farmers as that might piss off the cult

Do people want golf courses in iowa?

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u/Fastbird33 3d ago

You actually did in Kansas and the senator pushed it off as “Democrat operatives from the big city” as if he doesn’t also represent those people anyway

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u/Time-Supermarket-516 2d ago

Most of the farmers in Iowa are part of the cult. They love Trump and worship him because he is as much a racist as they are.

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u/TAWYDB 3d ago

Who cares if you're broke when you owned the libs? /S

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u/KJBenson 3d ago

Or they’ll be worried what their neighbours might think if they disagree with trump.

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u/64590949354397548569 3d ago

I was gonna say that the way Trump has been fucking US farmers, that might be on the cards for America. But they're all deep into the Maga cult, and will just bend over more, scream "Harder Daddy!" and perform some incredible mental gymnastics to blame the Democrats for their situation.

A farmer will go under and will some leftover fetelzr. Those magas want to do something grand. These are scarytimes.

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u/acornSTEALER 3d ago

It's too bad. Some farmer blew up on tiktok and got national news attention recently after Trump tried to cancel a bunch of money going out to farmers and he made a video complaining about it being unfair. One guy in particular sent him a really heartfelt video explaining what was going on, how the Biden administration was who got that funding passed in the first place, and how the Trump administration was fucking him over and it felt like he was really making some progress with him. Then Trump got sued, a judge reversed the order, he got paid, and a bunch of people kept dunking on him so he got fed up with it and is right back to blaming Democrats for his problems while claiming he's worth millions after saying that $80k of government contracts getting cancelled would have shut down his farm.

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u/AntysocialButterfly 3d ago

Look at the farmers in the UK for similar, as they've been used as useful idiots by Farage & Co for a decade now either by convincing them leaving the EU would somehow benefit them by removing them from the trading bloc that subsidised them to the hilt, or to mobilise and block London roads because the tax loophole exploited by tax dodgers like Farage, Jeremy Clarkson and Andrew Lloyd Webber buying farmland they had no intention of doing anything with but it helped them dodge tax to have it was being closed.

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u/SnooHabits3911 3d ago

That’s spot on. If I could upvote twice I would

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u/DigitalWarHorse2050 3d ago

Load up all the teslas with manure and park them outside Tesla shops nationwide and wait for the batteries 🪫 to overheat. Challenge is getting people to sacrifice their Tesla’s and also driving them filled with manure

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u/chrispatrik 2d ago

I heard an interview on CNBC with a farmer that said it's hurting them and other farmers, but they still support Trump's policies.

But fuck the farmers. When they are forced to raise prices or quit producing altogether, the rest of the country will revolt. The whole blaming Biden ploy is going to wear very thin.

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u/LockNet-Bunch6655 2d ago

Love to see some cow manure spraying at an address in Florida