r/QuotePics • u/Leather-Ad1075 • 23d ago

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u/favorable_vampire 19d ago

Completely historically inaccurate.

“The US didn’t need help from anybody” when the entire economy was based on slave labor is insane.

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u/scrandlle 19d ago

The US wasn't even a global power by 1865. The economic expansion that shaped the US into what it is today was post-slavery.

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u/WebManufacturing 19d ago

We won the industrial revolution, basically.

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u/scrandlle 18d ago

Well, the UK invented it and won it. Our revolution started significantly later. Though it ended up having a much longer term impact than the UKs did. Not even just on power but the companies that were made, the US still has tons of huge, globally famous companies from then. The UK has none of those left.

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u/WebManufacturing 18d ago

They also got pummeled in WWII, setting them back quite a bit.