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Well, after learning everything I know bc - you know - Ken Burns (American treasure!), there's a lot of stuff that Americans don't know & aren't taught. We were fighting to be an autonomous place like Canada. Originally, it was a civil war between the British & rebels who wanted autonomy. Read this

Conservatives in 2026, fighting to revoke your constitutional rights in an effort to Make America Great Again. MAGA, because we all know that the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders is long overdue for a revision. Let’s get a change.org petition circulating to include MAGA! 🤪

See also: democrats Think about it. The US Revolution was (in theory) about overthrowing monarchy, the previous system of power in favor of capitalist class control. Now we have a dictatorship of billionaires and who is fighting to oppose that? The left. Democrats want to CONSERVE the status quo.

Trump is just a figurehead, a symptom of capitalism, of our corrupt society. To overthrow a monarchy is to reject the entire system, not just the figurehead. What dos that look like in our context? Nothing like what the democrats are proposing or trying to do. They aren’t our allies.

Do you really mean "conservative"? They look more like MAGA to be. Coming out of all this, "conservative" has to recover its meaning and its honorable place in US political discourse. We need the conservative perspective (not the racist, fascist, no-nothing MAGA perspective) in there talking it out.

This gag will never be comprehended by MAGA, Colonel. To do so require: 1) Historical literacy 2) Self-awareness 3) Some sense of irony. But I chuckled — so, thanks.

Well actually Nova Scotia is a pretty decent place. Universal healthcare, lots of good seafood, safe and no ICE. Instead of 51 st state makes more sense New England states become 11 province. 😉😇

these is the same people who think they're the part of Lincoln, when Lincoln's party were the ones who were the progressives by definition The conservatives wanted the status quo and to keep slavery, by definition

I thought you were an R teamer too. THans to your fucked up team, Free thinkers like me are branded with the same branding iron as your garbage. I'm for personal Freedoms - Gay marriage, right to abortion. I'm for limiting gov't over reach and authority I'm for fiscal responsibility.

#Authoritarianism survives on fear, seriousness, and myth. Ridicule dissolves all three. When people laugh, they stop obeying automatically.

Republicans today proudly fly the confederate flag too, they know they aren't fighting for the US, their actual national identity belongs to an attempted and failed nation which was, and still is, an enemy of the US.

It means the Governors of blue states better call up their state’s National Guard right NOW to defend civilians from the illegal and unconstitutional acts being committed by ICE/CBP. Before Trump tries to federalize them to massacre the people protesting & demanding equal justice.

Keep voting blue (if we get to vote). I think a lot of non maga republicans will be voting blue this time. Apparently Trump & Miller think so too. That’s why they’re pushed the Insurrection Act button before the midterms.

If the troops deploy, they had better make damn, fcking sure to be crystal-clear that they are on the side of the people. Same for the police. ICE is unhinged and acting completely outside the constitution. The troops all swore an oath to defend the US against all enemies, foreign or domestic.

Living in Minnesota I’m worried about both right now. We are literally being terrorized and need help. We need mass attention that we’ve been caring, peaceful, and just want to protect those that are the most vulnerable.

They weren't American then. They were British (or other European citizens) settled in the America's. The USA came after the war. But, yes, the "conservatives" were the British military.

I laugh though because the way things are going now, the US might have done better staying attached to Britain. Better a Gormless-King than a Malignant-Narcissist-President? The US shed the monarchy but not ultimately the tyranny.

Yes. There were loyalists, patriots and the *middle of the road* people who didn't want any of it. Content with things the way they were. 'So, we pay more taxes'. Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Hamilton all made them see, that was not going to work. Revolutionary War. #RevolutionaryWar

That’s just it. They thought that the Colonists were traitors to the king, just like MAGA’s think we’re traitors to Trump. (Which we are. However, in BOTH cases, we’re loyal to the United States.)

I generally agree with the comparison however colonists were Brit & other Euro citizens settled in the America's. When they fought against the Crown, they were traitors. We're not fighting against the Constitution, we're fighting for it. #trump is #AgainstTheConstitution #MAGA are the #traitors

Um, a typically blinkered American centric response. Jesus, you just don't learn. Ever. So Canada is a country of traitors to you? The fact is that Britain, France and Spain were all colonial forces that stole lands from old civilizations and went on to commit genocide. There. Fixed it.

They're still hoping that Congress gets off their stern seat and forces the DOJ to release the Epstein Files in their entirety. Otherwise what's the point of having laws? What's the point of having a Congress? And that's what he's pushing for. #Trump #EpsteinFiles

People should stop referring to the GOP as Conservative. They are not. I am a liberal Democrat. I've had many Republican friends, clients & a husband over the years. We didn't agree on alot of things but shared basic morality & ethics. Today's GOP has neither morality or ethics that I can see.

Tories, faithful to the crown. Though the crown didn't give a fart in a windstorm about them. I believe this is a moment for revolutionaries, for a deeply amended Constitution that can't be hacked by greedy, cruel asshats to steal power and gold for themselves. We are the People.

Back in 1776 it reads like you could have a revolution nd then take a while to figure out how to govern better after. Now I'm thinking maybe the US constitution gets it right enough so that the modern world demands you know what the new rules are going to be before you should destroy the old ones.

Funny how “I’d fight tyranny in 1776” always comes from people who’d have been loyalists clutching the Crown, the church, and the status quo. Revolutionaries were radicals — today’s conservatives would’ve called them extremists.

Like all the assholes who were rebs in my Civ War reenacting days that went all "Make 'Murica First". We had an event at a historical site fall (an active mil installation) apart because the DoD needed to vet participants names ahead of time. That was "big govt infringing on them" 🙄

Today’s supposed Conservatives wouldn’t have fought for the United States they would have turned Jefferson, Franklin, and Washington into the British.

What is happening in the twin cities today is scarily similar to what was happening in Boston in the 1770s, down to the media propaganda.

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I'm struck by the similarities between the competing accounts of the Boston Massacre in 1770 and the media battles in the wake of the murder of Renee Good. I also find it ironic that those on the side of tyranny today cloak themselves in sobriquets that include words like patriot and liberty.

It's always very important to ask about the meaning of the words they use. "Our" self proclamed "patriots" here in Europe are in most cases working for Russia.

It’s a little funny that the 2nd amendment people are now seeing what the amendment was actually supposed to be for and they are on the wrong side of it.

We need the Reds (☭) to march on Washington to fix this. Anything less will result in the same situation with different oppressors. #DemExit, and help build a class independent, non-1%-funded labor party that will help educate and organize the masses outside of the 1% owned parties!

This. Also ask the Nonsensical Rifle Addiction, sacrificing school kids. So the #NRA could be, break glass in case of national salvation. Ruby Ridge, Waco govt is coming to kill you. Are now, "she bruised that poor officer's insides, somewhere. So he

Those who violate Constitution USA laws, amendments and decent Human behavior. In support of Trump instead. Are Enemies of near 340 million Americans - And near 8 BILLION people on this good earth.

LOL. At my last teaching job there was a kid who wore a t-shirt with Trump’s mug shot that said daddy’s coming home. That’s where I first heard Trump called daddy. So weird. I felt sorry for the kid that his parents did that to him.

Prejudice, hatred and religious bigotry are taught to children from a very early age There are some very sick parents out there. Their children deserve far better.

Conservatives: "Children deserve our protection." Conservatives during first Trump admin "child separation policy:" 🙈🙊 Remember? You were in Congress. Please point me to one public statement you made denouncing the stealing of children from their immigrant parents, some of whom were never reunited