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lol XD

Actually, not everyone in America was of British origin. Hence why New York used to be New Amsterdam -- it was colonized, originally, by the Dutch. Furthermore, in establishing their desire to breakaway from Great Britain and become the United States of America, they had become Americans. (Although, really, your statement is true; many of the regular (non-revolutionary leadership or army, the so-called "Founding Fathers" and their peers -- Hancock, Adams, Revere, Franklin, etc) colonists did consider themselves to be British subjects)

Also Paul Revere never said "the British were coming" -- his ride was one of secrecy. He quietly warned revolutionaries who further spread and warned other revolutionaries. The closest he came to anything of that saying would be "The Regulars are coming" -- referring to the name of the troops. "Redcoat" as slang for a British soldier did not, in fact, become common parlance until the late 19th century. The British troops of the Revolution were most commonly referred to as "Regulars" or the "King's Army" -- there is little to no evidence of the term "redcoat" being used in the late 18th century, circa the War, by colonists or their contemporaries.

tl;dr -- Kino is a joke killer

to compensate, here's a picture of a cute cat:

my teachers lied to me

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Oh, Faux News.

Technically, Abraham Lincoln was a Republican too...although I forget what political parties in the Civil War era meant besides pro-/con-slavery.

I dunno which of those three images that I like more.

I'm holding myself back from a political rant. I'll just sum it up by saying that Republicans loooove to claim they were the party of the Lincoln... but were you aware that his presidential election occurred only 6 years after the party's formation? Furthermore, after the Reconstruction, the party re-aligned into a staunch pro-business party that promoted high tariffs and backed Grant's corrupted "spoils system" (you rub my back I'll rub yours). They opposed the League of Nations (forerunner to the United Nations) and backed Prohibition.

So excluding Lincoln, was elected in the party's infancy anyway, they've pretty much always supported big business, meddling in people's private lives (prohibition), opposed welfare and progressive labor incentives (as evidenced by their opposition to Roosevelt's New Deal, in direct contrast to the party of Lincoln's maxim of "free labor"). With the Civil Rights movement, you saw the shift in party bases, begun with Democrat Roosevelt and the New Deal, and continued forth in the 60s. Republicans began actively pursuing a Southern strategy of appealing to conservative, anti-African-American voters in the traditionally Democratic south.


... oh! I did get on a rant anyway.

Here's something vaguely funny. Note that I did not arrange the books the way, I merely found them on the shelf in this order. Normally I frown upon people who rearrange books in stores in such a juvenile manner but, what can I say, this one made me lol:

Oh, I knew Lincoln was elected right after the Republican party was formed. That's one of the few things I actually have retained from the U.S. History classes I took. I also remembering doodling a lot and hardly ever studying.