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If Americans could read

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If Americans could read

TokenBoomer@lemmy.world to Political Memes@lemmy.world · 1 year ago

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mathemachristian[he]@lemm.ee
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I have never seen the phrase “the tail wags the dog” used more aptly as with with the US-UK power dynamic
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  Yeah totally - wait which is the tail in your mind?
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    They feared that unchecked, the Colonial tail might someday wag the imperial dog (as indeed it has).
    
    The full quote from https://readsettlers.org/ch2.html

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