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2025-04-06 11:33 UTC

@Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp @jrefior@hachyderm.io It was a constitutional monarchy. The 1773 revolt was against Parliamentary taxation. Perverting history doesn't help the cause.

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@jrefior@hachyderm.io 2025-04-06 13:15

@linuxgnome@todon.eu @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp "ex-UKLabour" I take it you are British and are still offended by what the American colonies did in the 1770s? What I said is in line with how US Founding Fathers represented events: "The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world... For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent" —US Declaration of Independence https://www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript Wishing it were a perversion of history—because it's not how you tell it—doesn't make it so.

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