Recent events have me curious about exactly how bloody the American revolution was. I tried asked chatGPT but it was evasive at best so I was hoping some more history minded hexbears could help me out. Bonus points for examples of innocent people caught in the crossfire. I want to throw some stats at the liberals in my life about what even a “good” revolution looks like.

Death to America

  • FlakesBongler [they/them]@hexbear.net
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    1 year ago

    So, fun fact!

    The term lynching was invented during this period because a gentleman named Charles Lynch went around with mobs to punish anyone who he thought wasn’t enough of a patriot for his liking

    Lot of people who weren’t soldiers or merchants ended up beaten or worse because of this guy; enough that the act of extrajudicial violence ended up being named after him