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Americans are good blokes, but the American Revolution was a mistake. This page is dedicated to pure disrespect.
(pretend) High Tory. God Save the King. I <3 the Irish Republic.
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The US Ambassador to Canada made a joke like that recently. I don't think anyone laughed...
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Donald Trump is a fucking idiot. Does anyone out there NOT think so? Come on. There is no way Howard Lutnick and the rest of the King's Friends actually respect Donnie's intellect at all.
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Will, is it fair to say you are perpetually swarmed by crows who turn everything you say, however benign, into some insane plot from a QAnon/Marxist echo chamber?
"No, guys, I am literally just saying the government is breaking the law here" lol
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That is hilarious late-to-the-party stuff right there, innit😂
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Literally way worse than George III and Lord North's cabinet. Like really, get the fuck outta here with this bullshit, Donald.
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Might be like Australians or Canadians or something
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No wonder everyone hates Benedict Arnold. He betrayed the Crown!
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Great, now profile people thrown in jail or executed for opposing the Patriot insurgency, or the people charged without habeas corpus for rejecting the Patriot Movement 🤡
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Let there be no misunderstandings though: the vast majority of black Americans sided with the British, who credibly offered a far better deal in the event of victory.
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The British had declared a boundary demarcating where colonists would live and where indigenous nations would remain sovereign.
Like, of course they would side with the Brits🤷🏻♂️
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Britain: "Hey Indians, these guys want to violate the boundaries we established in the 1763 Proclamation, which would mean inevitable wars of conquest against you. Want to help us shut them down?"
Natives: "Of course!"
Patriot Movement:
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Too bad they weren't inspired by the Glorious Revolution to use a Westminster system with Parliamentary Supremacy!
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Canada is a country founded on the idea the American Revolution was a big mistake lmao
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Or Sitting Bull, Tecumseh, Pontiac, etc lol
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Nightmare blunt rotation
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I can understand why the Patriot movement was pissed that they would be willing to deploy regulars to crush a rebellion but not to support local interests in expansion. I can also understand the Crown position entirely, and the 13 colonies weren't their main priority in any event.
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With the Redcoats, there is a theme of Parliament/the Crown demanding colonists not expand westward except with small trading posts. In part this was because deploying military to hold the frontier was ludicrously expensive/difficult. Expansion also undermined relations with native traders.
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George III wasn't an absolute monarch or anything, but he definitely tried to form cabinets that agreed with his opinions (which proved hard). George didn't personally design any of the policies the Patriot movement rebelled against. That was Parliament, and they were unpopular in Britain, too!
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Another cheeky online interpretation could be "the right to start civil wars". The Wars of the Three Kingdoms were not in *living* memory, but they were definitely still haunting everything in Anglosphere politics imo
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Actually, you are right about that, in Poland at least. Not in France, Netherlands, or some other places, and I doubt the UK (hypothetically).
You know who *did* force subjects to learn its language, though? Britain! 💀😅
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I kind of developed a habit of reading them alongside eachother, before ultimately deciding Shitter was just pure cancer and deleting everything lmao
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With Will, it was people being *really* fucking angry he thought Biden was, at a policy level, a big success (which I think is likely true, though I'm not from the US obv), but with Rittenhouse it was that he was literally a murderer getting red carpet treatment 🤷🏻♂️
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Will Stancil seems like an incredibly normal person who is ultra opinionated in favour of... Standard shit?
Back on Shitter, I always thought the most unhinged conversations were in the comments to Will and to Kyle Rittenhouse lmao
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The Germans didn't force people in occupied territories to learn German, btw.
I'll never understand why the United States didn't just enter the war in 1939 or 1940, but anyway
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In the immediate historical context they were probably talking about Loyalists aka people with different opinions.
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They also really really really didn't like that the Crown insisted that colonists not expand westward (aka hunt and displace natives). The 1763 Proclamation Line was a very very triggering experience for the Patriot Movement.
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Nah, they wanted Americans to break the 1763 Proclamation Line and chase/kill natives. At least 50% of why.
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Lmao sure they would. They chased out Loyalists (wrong opinion!), Natives (savages!), and of course Slaves (property!). Militias ruthlessly terrorized natives, and that was probably at least 50% of why they even existed.
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Should've just stayed in the Commonwealth, really
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100% correct. MAGA is just like Lord North's "King's Friends" cabinet.
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Loyalists Ghosts: "Told you so!"
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...speculating class at all. The lack of "freedom" to survey, conquer, and speculate on the frontier lands was a major grievance of the Patriot movement.
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Land speculation was absolutely a huge part of the colonization of North America. Not specific to the US founders, even. Though, George Washington illegally surveyed lands on the frontier, and the Crown's anti-expansion policies (1763 Proclamation) really didn't fly with the...
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*laughs in Parliamentary Supremacy*
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the national mythology of the founding fathers needs to be torn to shreds too otherwise it's just gonna keep coming back like a zombie - you cannot reform this place in a way that matters in the long term
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The British policy was actually to keep full settlements limited and develop broad trading networks with indigenous people. I'm not saying there was no murder/war, just that the United States literally said "fuck that" and ordered the US Army to go out and slaughter natives on a FAR bigger scale.
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Hegseth is just terrible.
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Insane. You know, one of the few things George III actually personally cared about was tight enforcement of the Anglican Church's grip on Britain.
That is part of why it felt like such a huge Middle Finger when Parliament passed favourable legislation for Quebec!
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(that is a way of saying that the Patriotic historiography of the Founding Fathers is a display of onanism and mental gymnastics)
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Nonsense. Lord North's cabinet, nicknamed "The King's Friends", was ridiculed in Britain and the colonies alike for being FAR more deferential to George III than the established doctrine of Parliamentary Supremacy required. MAGA is quite a bit like the politicians they rebelled against.
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Slave driving, illegally surveying frontier lands...
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They were mostly thinking about fighting with natives, truth be told. That was the proximate issue, and it had been forbidden by the Crown.
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Should have kept the Westminster system. Dissolve congress, call an early election, and get on.
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This ⬆️
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Should've stayed in the Commonwealth. The Redcoats in Canada seem happy. Australia, New Zealand too.
UK needs a bit of work though 💀
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Or they would sympathize with Russia's version of Manifest Destiny. The United States was founded, in part, to bypass the restrictions on westward expansion ordered by the Crown. The US waged many wars of brutal conquest to reach the Pacific.