• Higgs boson
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    829 months ago

    to protect you from the French

    lol. oh man, that’s hilarious. Stay in school, kids.

    • @PlantDadManGuy@lemmy.world
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      529 months ago

      I believe they meant to protect North American territories from French capture, not necessarily to prevent individual bodily harm, but that doesn’t fit as nicely in meme format.

      • The Dark Lord ☑️
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        259 months ago

        So… they saved the land, not the people. It’s like cutting employee salaries to avoid a takeover from another company. Don’t worry everyone… we “saved” you.

      • @merc@sh.itjust.works
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        59 months ago

        The territories were the things the US founding fathers cared about. They were almost all rich – or at least formerly rich like Samuel Adams.

      • Higgs boson
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        9 months ago

        That has very little to do with the historicity of whether England “saved you from the French.”

        • Mubelotix
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          19 months ago

          I understood later that the comment was a joke about the french actually being allies because we hated england too