• SCB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Yeah nothing like going old-school French Revolution and killing a few million people then having a couple civil wars to really sus out who is a “true American.”

    They call it the Reign of Terror because it was so much fun!

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      1 year ago

      It’s not about being a true american, it’s about finally putting up a boundary against fascism. Granted, Robespierre was doing his own brand of fascism with the guillotine but we don’t have to repeat this part of history.

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        1 year ago

        You see it that way, and millions of others see it as “the socialist takeover” or whatever nonsense, and all of a sudden we have mobs of people killing each other