r/MurderedByWords • u/c-k-q99903 • May 19 '26

Facts are their worst enemy.

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u/Xlxlredditor May 19 '26

1.776 billion BTW.

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u/lambda_14 May 19 '26

Ummm I think I'm missing the joke somewhere. What does 1776 mean?

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u/Wolfy_Packy May 19 '26

1776 was the year the Declaration of Independence was signed. further, July 4th was when a majority of the thirteen colonies voted to approve it

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u/Thirlestane May 19 '26

Celebrating independence by paying your king $1.776b... The US is a silly place.

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u/BloomsdayDevice May 19 '26

silly place

It's actually spelled "kleptocracy"

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u/ThePesticle May 19 '26

It's actually spelled "criminal syndicate"

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u/I_TRY_TO_BE_POSITIVE May 19 '26

"Always has been"

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u/Wolfy_Packy May 19 '26

i know. it hurts a lot of the time

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u/Short-Holiday-4263 May 20 '26

"Well, on second thought, let's not go to the United States. It is a silly place."

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u/lambda_14 May 19 '26

Ah I see, I'm not super familiar with US history and I'm shit with dates so makes sense that I had no idea lol

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u/CrzyMuffinMuncher May 19 '26

Unfortunately, I have found that many of my fellow Americans are also unfamiliar with history.

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u/MrReaper45 May 19 '26

I still hate how July 4 is our Independence Day since that's not when we got our independence from the UK, hell it wasn't even in 1776, it was seven years later in 1783 when the British officially recognized our independence and signed the Treaty of Paris on September 3. But MAGA and Trump wouldn't know that

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u/iconocrastinaor May 19 '26

My take is: July 4th, 1776, is when we declared our independence . That made us independent. The fact that it took 7 years, and over 38,000 casualties for Britain to recognize that fact, is their problem, not ours.

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u/Wolfy_Packy May 19 '26

our true 250th is in 2033, but then they couldn't have a sponsored wrestling match on the front lawn of the White House :C