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[–] captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago (14 children)

You want to find me a head of state that wasn't or isn't?

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[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)
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[–] doingthestuff@lemy.lol 2 points 6 hours ago (2 children)

Just a little reminder that governments have killed more people than any other entity and it isn't even close. You could try to point at religion - and that history is also fucked - but even if you exclude "holy wars" waged by religious government leaders, religious killing still doesn't add up to what has been done by governments where religion wasn't really a factor. The proletariat must not be disarmed. You might trust your current government, but give it a generation (or even an election) and things could be very different.

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[–] vegafjord@freeradical.zone 7 points 10 hours ago

@Confidant6198 That's why I like to call them the Genocidal Regimes of America.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can someone tell me more about Washington? Wiki says he purchased the teeth from slaves. I'm sure that's not entirely true, or is it?

[–] Dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 5 hours ago

He had dentures made of human teeth, human teeth dentures were almost always made from slave teeth during this time.

[–] ErsatzCoalButter@beehaw.org 1 points 7 hours ago

William Henry Harrison should have ate it at Tippecanoe but at least he corrected his misstep during his first month in office

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