• ubergeek@lemmy.today
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    6 days ago

    You forgot some of the highlights, and critically, one of the biggest reasons: The king didn’t allow colonists to do a full genocide of indigenous peoples.

    Hence the declaration that no movement past the Appalachians was allowed.

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      6 days ago

      Try to avoid bean soup discourse. It’s not productive. Yes, there are other grievances listed in the Declaration, some more important than the ones I listed. But they’re not relevant to the topic at hand. No need to derail a conversation to switch to a completely different issue