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[hunter_burgess]

So, nice weekend with the family, got to see two brothers and one sister, which is a less then 50% success rate. Apparently everyone in the family is broke, as Mom informed me there would be no gifts exchanged this year (except for the endless supply of nieces and nephews and whatnot). My brother is apparently going to ask me to be the best man

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[the_outlaw]

Why does your family exchange gifts on Labor Day?

[the_outlaw]

And I would have thought that America's imperialist meddling in foreign nations would have been when we ended our neutrality during WWI and became more pronounced during WWII and after with the justificaiton of preventing the spread of fascism/communism.

I'm curious to see how the 19th century is shown to be the same (Monroe Doctrine is only one example, what else?).

[hunter_burgess]

We don't exchange gifts on Labor Day - we won't be exchanging gifts for Christmas was the gist; mentally I wrote that but the print seems to bely me.

As for imerialist meddling, I usually need look no further than the destruction of the indigenous peoples (though I recognize that even they came here from elsewhere) under the guise of Manifest Destiny - a doctrine which many European nations would have happily espoused with their monarchies. There is also the Mexican-American war and later the Spanish-American war, both of which really ended up being about grabbing land and resources from someone else (to whom, all things beings fair, it never belonged in the first place). We simply assumed our place in the economic slavery of less industrialized people in the interests of whatever bullshit we could think of at the time.