The Pilgrims were literally fleeing people not tolerating their own insane peak-level religious intolerancehttps://twitter.com/avram/status/801949298296496128 …
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Roger Williams had to flee Massachusetts under cover of night for his radical belief that Jews should be allowed to vote
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"The USA was founded on religious tolerance" but one of the grievances in the Declaration is "King George didn't force-convert the Papists"
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Another grievance being "King George promised he'd leave the Indians in Ohio alone after they helped in the last war. Well fuck that"
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Like half the Declaration is Americans butthurt the French and Indian War didn't end with wholesale extermination of French and Indians
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The other half is being mad they had to pay any money for fighting said war in the first place
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When I get drunk on holidays I get mad at American history AMA
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George Washington personally wasn't motivated so much by nationalism or liberalism as his intense, burning lust for Ohio
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As a British officer he never forgave command for calling off the war before they conquered Ohio
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The last big project he invested in before he died was a crackpot scheme to build a canal going all the way from DC to Ohio
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sounds like job-creating infrastructure to me
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