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🎆 🎉 🥁 the Revolutionary War was a secessionist rebellion led by a class of wealthy settler colonist elites terrified by the twin possibilities of slave emancipation and personal bankruptcy from illegal real estate ventures involving stolen indigenous land 🇺🇸 🦅🧨 🎉 🎆
here's George Washington, ordering a campaign of counterinsurgency repression and ethnic cleansing against the Iroquois in 1779 
not being hyperbolic about the illegal real estate deals - here's Washington, telling people to obey the 1763 Royal Proclamation RE: indigenous land while hiding his own lucrative development deals in defiance of it (Source: Hogeland's "Autumn of the Black Snake," 2017)
TBH we could do this for nearly every one of the Founding heroes of American civic religion but instead I'll just leave it with this: Ian Smith was an outspoken Jefferson enthusiast, and modeled Rhodesia's 1965 Unilateral Declaration of Independence on the US's. enough said.
