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More like tailingmomentum
(thelemmy.club)
apparently, aocia claimed american war of independence was against rich people
*found it https://nitter.net/MarcoFoster_/status/2053273753401143399
AOC: “America was founded in revolt of British aristocracy. The American Revolution was against the billionaires of their time. It’s actually the most American thing in the world for us to be fighting for the working class. It’s actually patently un-American to transform our country into a place of kings and landed gentry”
but was it tho? it was against the state, which rich people got expropriated money/land/slaves in the war?
one group of colonial rich people vs aristocratic rich people on a bog island, nothing to celebrate really
Very telling that the swamp Americans in Virginia, Carolina, and Georgia were pro-crown until the crown started to tell their slaves to break free
It was the rich people mad that the extremely rich people weren't letting them become extremely rich
That isn't true either though. The motivations were war taxes levied as a response to a war they started, being unable to compete with British tea exports, and the potential enforcement of British laws like "Don't fucking invade another country without asking you fucking numbskull". American rich people were not kept down or prevented from competing or in any way inconvenienced. They still paid less tax than the British did and still had access to free land they stole.
Really it's an object lesson that the bourgeoisie will never be happy
Don't forget the crown setting limits on westward genocidal expansion (casue it cost money to defend the settlers for little gain).
I'm speaking vaguely but I'm just saying the fabulously wealthy King wouldnt let the overstuffed rich colonial aristocrats suck up quite as much gold and real estate as they wanted. That doesn't imply that they were behind the rest of the British empire, just behind one guy