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The Debtor-Slaver, A Study in American Class Psychology

It Could Happen Here

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By the 1850s there's a new sort of conquistador who's setting out to you know conquer in the name of the cross and paying off the creditors. They're called filibusters now this is actually where the these people are where the term filibuster as a sort of like thing that you do in the senate comes from. These people set out to conquer new slave states by straight up seizing control of places like kubah or mexico they do a bunch of this stuff in texas it doesn't really work but those guys were really successful i the the filabusters they mostly failed because again this is why we call them "fascists"

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