r/PoliticalHumor • u/Howcanimakemore • 8d ago

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u/doll-haus 8d ago

They also didn't imagine it becoming the permanent domicile of a populous more than a quarter the size of the entire fucking colonies at the time of the revolution.

DC was built as two things:

  1. As much as possible, an apolitical meet-up location for a band of relatively disparate communities that were effectively allies of convenience.
  2. A distraction / trap for the inevitable British reprisals.

Both of those ships sailed a long fucking time ago. We could argue about when they became laughable, but I'd hold anyone claiming either was of significant value in the last hundred years to be completely out of touch with reality.