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They had some good ideas, but they also had some really bad ideas. (lemmy.world)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I'd vote for a candidate who campaigned to repeal the Second Amendment.

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Also, America was formed because a bunch of rich, old, white guys didn't want to pay their taxes.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 7 months ago (1 children)

More like a bunch of folk who were turfed out of Europe for being a bit too religiously weird

That takes some doing in the 16th century 😂

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago

I mean, that was why the pilgrims left. There were a lot of other people that came for a lot of other reasons after.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Yeah but maybe look at a modern written constitution. At least the guys wrote the American one had some ideals. The Canadian Charter of Rights was written by a career politician in the late 70s to specifically guarantee governmental rights, not citizens.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Or be around Catholics.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Anglicans. Who were, in fact, persecuting other religions because that's just what you did at the time.