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[โ€“] scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 27 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Important to always remember America started because a bunch of hyper religious folks thought the Church of England was too permissive, named themselves "Puritans", and sailed off to a new land. And many still hold to those warped values today

[โ€“] Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca 9 points 8 months ago

Many of there were kicked out for their repressive ways too.