I've had this conversation multiple times. America was not built under radical individualism, but individualism under a racial collective. @Captain

> Where was there ever a confederacy of republics united as these states are...or, in which the people were so drawn together by religion, blood, language, manners, and customs.

- John Dickinson (Penman of the American Revolution)

https://teachingamericanhistory.org/library/document/fabius-viii/

The thing is with the United States of America is that while we have a “individualistic” culture. We also have a military culture and a culture for hierarchy

I eat so much man

I'm fuckin

I mean look at WW2

Chowing down on an entire pizza

Vietnam or Korea

Or WW1

>Look at Vietnam

That’s a military culture the US has formed

No thanks

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Or the gulf war

Vietnam was a tatical withdraw

Get it right dummy

Peace Through Superior Firepower.

Is that hard to understand

@Monstrous Moonshine I've also heard that response. I've spoken to a few hundred discord users who align themselves on the dissident/alt right. If you're ever on voice we can talk about this further. I just realized we've been talking all this time in a memes channel

Also America has a sense of a collective

We do have a sense of being a nation

Like we talk about the settlers and the colonists

Who formed communities

these beans are for the beaners

But to quickly summarize - not only were blacks in the United States as slaves, but they also existed as free men and as property owners before the civil war. Many of whom owned property. They could move/emmigrate to the united states freely @Monstrous Moonshine

Look at the American immigration act pre 1800

@Captain And the Founders were looking for ways to send them back to Africa, "beyond the reach of admixture"

@Monstrous Moonshine The founders also spoke of the "stock of abraham" and their resistance on letting in germans, celtics, and slavs

Their vision of America was less racial and more ethnic

The founders were correct to be concerned about mass German migration

And Celtic