• AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Always remember that if the conservatives who claim to love the US, had been born in 1750, they would have been Loyalist Redcoats.

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      8 months ago

      I mean…if the loyalist redcoats had won, you’d have health care, gun control and there wouldn’t have been a civil war, slavery would just have ended like it did in the rest of the empire.

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        8 months ago

        Big jump in logic here. The decay of the British empire wouldn’t even be a thing if the crown held the states. As long as we’re playing pretend I’d say it would have ended up worse for everyone.

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          8 months ago

          Lol. Why not pretend the Byzantine Empire would still exist if they had North America? I was talking about a much tighter period of time, roughly 50 years. Canada was essentially self governing by the late 1800s.