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[–] [email protected] 145 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Remember, small impressionable children, oligarchy and rigged market capitalism is the only way, everything else is evil and anti-freedom, and remember to compete against your fellow Americans to try to get more than them!

For our next lesson, critical thinking and reasoning! Just kidding, we don't do that here. It doesn't help to make you better laborers.

And now onto history, open your textbooks to page 33:

[–] [email protected] 69 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Damn that picture is pissing me off lol

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Imagine what Native Americans must think of such depictions.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago

Well if they wanted to tell their side of the story, they should've won.

Not our fault they didn't invent guns or a bunch of diseases by domesticating livestock in population centers!

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think it pisses them off too

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

For First Thanksgiving?

Most of that is believed to have happened or is so cloaked in mythos that any version is likely to be true if you're talking the American version.

Source, native. The women being there is the thing that's least likely to be true.

Nearly all of what historians have learned about one of the first Thanksgiving comes from a single eyewitness report: a letter written in December 1621 by Edward Winslow, one of the 100 or so people who sailed from England aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts. William Bradford, Plymouth’s governor in 1621, wrote briefly of the event in Of Plymouth Plantation, his history of the colony, but that was more than 20 years after the feast itself.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thanksgiving

https://www.history.com/news/first-thanksgiving-colonists-native-americans-men

[–] [email protected] 57 points 1 year ago (14 children)

I'm interested in how Americans pronouncebourgeois.

[–] [email protected] 65 points 1 year ago

as long as the French get offended by the pronunciation, then it's pronounced correctly in American

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago

Boogers please. We ain't no uppity frogs.

[–] loudWaterEnjoyer 48 points 1 year ago

We just say bourgeois

[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

"entrepreneurs"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I'm actually something of a job creator myself. Last week at the grocery store I didn't return my cart to the coral. They had to pay someone to go out and bring it in!

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

I personally pronounce it fahrenheit

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I pronounce it bore-zhwah. Is that wrong?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feel like that's as correct as we can get, as Americans.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

French pronounce the "ou" as is "tour". But you do you.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tour as in tu- er or tore? I've heard it pronounced both ways here in the states

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Whoa what? I've never heard anyone pronounce tour as tu-er. At that point you might as well slap an umlaut on that bad boy

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bore rhymes with tour.. no?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Bore rhymes with tore. Tour is closer to sewer

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In most American dialects and some British dialects, "bore" and "tour" rhyme (called the "pour-poor merger"). But in some dialects it may rhyme with "sewer"/"two-er" or have the same sound as in "blue" or even as in "were".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Aha. See, that explains the disconnect. Thank you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A more aggressively American pronunciation would be bore-ge-oh-is.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

'Boojz wah', or if I'm feeling silly bourguignon. But I'd probably be more likely to use 'middle class' instead of the French.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Bourxjeauxaseaux

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Different ways, I usually say boo-jwah, bur-jwah is also one I've heard though.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I and anyone I've heard say the word says it the same as the English pronunciation in this random video I found searching for how to pronounce it. For whatever that small sample size is worth.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3pMOHP3Uu54

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Me when the science teacher says the earth is round /s

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

this is gonna be texas in about 3 weeks at this rate

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reminds me of this scene in the big short:

Rabbi Scene

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I thought Jews were supposed to think critically about religion. After all, that's why Yahweh keeps the devil around, to question them.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Rabbi Scene

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

my teacher last year was like this

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