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Nah, it checks out. 32 stars on the flag points to a 9 month period between 1858 and 1859, there were a ton of capotain-wearing Puritans around then. That definitely isn’t a fashion trend as removed from 1858 as we are from 1858!

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Yeah I thought about pointing that out, there were a few other players in it but .. yeah, hopefully the English get their shit together one day ..

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Garbagioreply
lemmy.zip

No, not really. A) Zionism predates the Nazi party by quite a bit, and B) it's pretty well documented that a large amount of European countries supported the establishment of Israel so that they could get rid of their Jewish populations, including England who controlled Palestine. The Nazis did not have a monopoly on antisemitism in Europe, I promise you that.

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Not to mention that Sykes Picot was the English and French carving up the MENA area with no regard as to who lived there, post WWI.

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lemmy.dbzer0.com

Sure, but his American descendants kept the tradition and the excuse alive for centuries after that snazzy hat went out of style.

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Well that's true, but there are a few other snazzy hats they could have used that would have aligned better with that flag or a flag similar to it .. I find it odd that religious nutjobs always need a ridiculous hat

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The pilgrim fathers fled to the "new world" to escape persecution. They might have been English, but the English didn't want them.

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cosmos8188reply
leminal.space

The art of botching into others peoples business. Narcissism being irresistible to the point where ethics are only right when they are labeled as white.

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