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[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Sorry, that deal was made with the French royal family, not the republic. It's null and void.

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

It doesn't matter. The debt was repaid in 1795 by James Swan, a banker who assumed the debt from the U.S.

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

If you transfer debts and loans they're still valid, it's what the ussr Russia exchange did.

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

The debt was already paid anyways

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

as if these assholes have ever read a history book. they don't fucking know that.

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

You do realize that I was using the argument that the US gov't used before Swan paid it off privately, right? It may be a joke, but I do know that much of early American history.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 hours ago

I do not; I try to skip over the america bits in history stuff whenever I can.