• @PugJesusOPM
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    3011 days ago

    Explanation: After the failed liberal/socialist revolutions of 1848, many of the participants preferred to get the fuck outta Europe rather than stick around with the monarchists and reactionaries. They went instead to America, the land of freedom! At the time, even some socialist writers had positive opinions on America, thinking it was on the path (though nowhere near) to a more equitable worker’s society and genuine democracy.

    We, uh, borked that up.

    • @rockSlayer
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      1011 days ago

      Seriously, fuck Woodrow Wilson.

      • @PugJesusOPM
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        711 days ago

        Amongst others, but yeah, fuck Wilson.

        • @rockSlayer
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          511 days ago

          True. I blame him for the start of the country to slide into neoliberalism, mostly because of what the Palmer raids did to the labor movement

    • Nougat
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      1011 days ago

      I have just realized something: The most distant ancestors of mine that I know of came from Prussia I think in 1849. They might have been revolutionaries.