Post #3028071

2025-04-06 13:32 UTC

@jrefior@hachyderm.io @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp I'm not offended at all. I am a historian by profession. The Crown had no powers of taxation. Parliament had the legislative powers and the Prime Minister (North) was the executive. What you cite is merely rhetorical propaganda.

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@jrefior@hachyderm.io 2025-04-06 15:01

@linuxgnome@todon.eu @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp I agree that it's rhetorical propaganda (but not that it’s only that), I'm aware that Parliament levied the taxes, and I appreciate your expertise as a historian. I submit that "merely" is too diminutive for the Declaration's place in American political culture. Referring to the mythology of America's history, perhaps especially its birth, is essential now when the President is rejecting everything that we have been, and is trying to transform us into a fascist dictatorship and vassal for the Russian government. Among other things, it's a national identity crisis. We are going to need a lot of powerful rhetorical propaganda to compete with what we are a up against. References to the founding fathers and the events of the 1770s resonate here, and are more likely to defuse the people who voted for the President, as they and their parents were in a population wont to make those references in years past. And the rhetorical propaganda, as you call it, is more popularly known here than any version emphasizing Parliament.

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@girlnamedwar@mastodon.social 2025-04-06 15:44

@linuxgnome@todon.eu @jrefior@hachyderm.io @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp dont bother, hes american, being "American" is a form of mental rt@rd@tion nowadays....

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