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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 May 2017

      1. Shot (me 2008):https://sanseverything.wordpress.com/2008/03/24/the-american-revolution-a-mistake/ …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 May 2017

      2. Chaser, (Adam Gopnick in the New Yorker now) http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/we-could-have-been-canada …

      5:54 PM - 8 May 2017
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      • Aviva Gabriel Craig Devin Cunningham Katy Lalonde V and Vrious Cullen Martin Moybot Fahmida Kamali #freepalestine Ken Bradshaw
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        1. Brian Arbour‏ @bkarbour 8 May 2017
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          I'll never submit to this. Football was meant to be played with 11 players.

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        1. dunn‏ @get_ir_Dunn 8 May 2017
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          https://www.google.com/amp/www.vox.com/platform/amp/2015/7/2/8884885/american-revolution-mistake … water before bed so I'm not hungover?

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        1. Cathy Young  🇺🇦‏Verified account @CathyYoung63 8 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Cathy Young  🇺🇦 Retweeted Varad Mehta

          3. Rebuttal: https://twitter.com/varadmehta/status/861642797446819840 … (and further down the thread)

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          Varad Mehta @varadmehta
          This is sophomoric in just the way a sophomore's book report about the first "real" history book he read would be. http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/05/15/we-could-have-been-canada …
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        1. (((Noel Maurer)))‏ @noel_maurer 8 May 2017
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          The political economy of the British Empire does not bend in the direction of liberty. http://noelmaurer.typepad.com/aab/2016/07/no-a-british-victory-in-the-revolutionary-war-would-not-have-ended-slavery-early.html …

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        2. Don't Mourn. Organize. Never give up.‏ @jagvpr 8 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          1. It's an interesting argument but I do wonder if Canada became Canada partly because of the American revolution. The UK made concessions

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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 May 2017
          Replying to @jagvpr

          Fair point.

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        2. Don't Mourn. Organize. Never give up.‏ @jagvpr 8 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          2. To the dominions (Canada, Australia, etc..) that they might not had made had there not been an American revolution.

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        3. Don't Mourn. Organize. Never give up.‏ @jagvpr 8 May 2017
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          3. Would the UK had allowed tariff autonomy for example if it weren't for American indepence? Allow some freedom or loose a Dominion again?

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        2. Carl Levitt‏ @thoughtamalgam 8 May 2017
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          The romantic history of America as the creation of the modern liberal state is mostly a product of the "Whig Interpretation of History".

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        3. Carl Levitt‏ @thoughtamalgam 8 May 2017
          Replying to @thoughtamalgam @HeerJeet

          First "we" rebelled against the catholic church in the reformation, then "we" rebelled against the authoritarian crown in the revolution.

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