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[-] HauntedBySpectacle@hexbear.net 36 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] Voidance@hexbear.net 9 points 2 months ago

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

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