One of the more moments for me as a nascent leftist was realizing that the quasi-deified Founding Fathers™ were almost entirely just 1700s equivalent of today’s creepy techbros, including sus sex predator stuff.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 has some great sections about how the only people worse than the Royal African Company for a slave were the American small business hustlegrinders who tried to cut the small costs of food and proper lodging the RAC treated as the simple cost of flesh-trading.
They really do be thinking that USA is some philosopher king of the world, don’t they?
One of the more
moments for me as a nascent leftist was realizing that the quasi-deified Founding Fathers™ were almost entirely just 1700s equivalent of today’s creepy techbros, including sus sex predator stuff.
The Counter-Revolution of 1776 has some great sections about how the only people worse than the Royal African Company for a slave were the American small business hustlegrinders who tried to cut the small costs of food and proper lodging the RAC treated as the simple cost of flesh-trading.
We are living in the griftlands