Every search you make, email you send, text message, voice chat, location, and most likely the conversations you have in your own home are monitored and stored in a database for whoever knows how long (probably forever). When I hear land of the free, I immediately think bullshit. We are slowly losing our freedoms, what can we do to prevent this? I mean, when Edward Snowden dropped the leaks, people protested, but barely anything changed. What can we do? This post not only applies to Americans, your own government in another country may possibly does the same thing. Feel free to comment!

  • queermunist she/her@lemmy.ml
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    3 months ago

    As far as I know, only about a third of people in the US back then ever owned slaves.

    Okay? We’re talking about the Founders, and they owned slaves. They were directly responsible for it, they had their own plantations. Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd.

    Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders? Because generally when USians talk about our Founders we’re talking about the people at the Constitutional Convention and terroist organizations like the Sons of Liberty.

    • AggressivelyPassive@feddit.de
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      3 months ago

      Are you perhaps under the impression that all Americans in 1776 were Founders

      Are you perhaps under the impression that us stupid Europeans don’t know what you’re talking about?

      Comparing that to bystanders and voting and buying local and being complacent is absurd

      Again, I’m German. I’ve heard that excuse before.