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this post was submitted on 12 Sep 2024
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Is this supposed to be a surprising secret? I was taught this in American public schools as the core reason.
The real wake-up call isn't learning about the historical importance of expansion itself, but assigning a different moral value to it. It's realizing Manifest Destiny is just Lebensraum that won, that there's nothing morally justified about it.
The real secret cause was that galaxy brain Americans thought that tea was like a hardcore drug and that the Empire was doing a sort of opium wars on them with english breakfast teas