I don’t think your assumption is accurate. They famously started shooting at a government because they taxed them a little more than they wanted to be taxed (to pay for a war we started).

The founders thought they inoculated us against tyranny in 1776.

Even Reddit has rules against low effort comments in lieu of upvotes. They don’t enforce them, but they have it as a rule.

I don’t care that they were right about their “this”-style comment. I care that they thought I should read that instead of someone else’s comment.

It’s all about the signal:noise ratio.

Please leave reddit comments on reddit where they belong.

Rules for thee

2/2 of your comments ITT are missing periods.

Until the clickable part is gone.

Mysteriously, your performance review is suddenly much worse, citing completely unrelated reasons.

Do you know why some countries wanted to attack Germany in the 1930s and 40s?

Sometimes the lesser evil really is war, but much more rarely than war hawks would like to claim. The Roman Empire famously caused strife among their neighbors and used that as an excuse to attack “for the safety of Rome.”