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What did a minority of idiots ruin for everyone else? (piefed.blahaj.zone)
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[โ€“] Gold_E_Lox@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

it was literally formed by slave owning colonials that didnt want to pay tax

[โ€“] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 10 points 1 month ago

That wasn't the only reason! They also wanted to take the land from the indigenous people living to the west of them and Britain wasn't allowing them to do that.