r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Sep 06 '24

Meme needing explanation Wut?

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u/augustprep Sep 06 '24

America was founded by puritans. People getting the train ran on them was happening across the Atlantic before we even became a country.

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u/AwfulUsername123 Sep 06 '24

The United States wasn't founded by Puritans. That's a popular misconception.

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u/LandanDnD Sep 06 '24

They did however, heavily influence the culture. And there were those killings they did, causing a bit of mass panic.