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remember when there used to be all these articles about how people in europe live longer than americans because they drink red wine and eat more olive oil or bullshit like that? turns out it was universal healthcare the whole time

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

possibly from centuries more experience they know the peons will only take so much bullshit.

Like we don't share the same history? We came from over there once. I think part of our problem is that too many of us ignore history that didn't happen on our soil, like it's irrelevant to us even though it isn't.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

US history as it is taught in US schools is rather hagiographic, suggesting at most we borrowed a few ideas (e.g. the two-house congress), but otherwise were dismissing all that was feudalism. Even our elected officials dressed as officials and not as aristocracy.

So yeah, we also discarded a notion from classic peonage that serfs belonged to the land. Rather we had slaves and waged workers (not that we treated them particularly well.) The American Dream before the California gold rush was an honest day's work for an honest day's pay and we were crap at that even then.