Post #3028070
2025-04-06 13:15 UTC
@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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@linuxgnome@todon.eu 2025-04-06 13:32
@jrefior@hachyderm.io @Haikyoneko@famichiki.jp I'm not offended at all. I am a historian by profession. The Crown had no powers of taxation. Parliament had the legislative powers and the Prime Minister (North) was the executive. What you cite is merely rhetorical propaganda.