Th English even turned a blind eye to smuggling for a long time. But eventually they started wanting their tax money, so they confiscated a couple smugglers, drastically limiting their supply. While shipping a bunch of legal tea and selling it cheap to get people used to buying cheap tea in stores legally.
In response a bunch of smugglers paid some people to dress as Native Americans and throw the legal tea into the harbor. Because now all tea was in short supply, everyone raised prices and the smugglers were able to stay operating and even lobby France to pay for a proxy war and provide generals as a “fuck you” to the English, which was like the French’s favorite pass time.
America was never about Americans tossing out a tyrant ruler.
Our country was founded on the rich dicking over the average American so they could accumulate more wealth and power personally.
On a website most people make posts that are barely two sentences…
It never surprises me how often people bitch that I didn’t cover ever single facet of an issue after typing paragrpaghs.
Like, my comments are already usually long enough people don’t read it all, but I still always get these (incredible short) comments mad that I didn’t spend two hours writing and sources my social media comments.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. This is pretty accurate. American history as taught in American schools is essentially indoctrination where all the bad parts are removed.
I mean, we got treated better than any colony…
Th English even turned a blind eye to smuggling for a long time. But eventually they started wanting their tax money, so they confiscated a couple smugglers, drastically limiting their supply. While shipping a bunch of legal tea and selling it cheap to get people used to buying cheap tea in stores legally.
In response a bunch of smugglers paid some people to dress as Native Americans and throw the legal tea into the harbor. Because now all tea was in short supply, everyone raised prices and the smugglers were able to stay operating and even lobby France to pay for a proxy war and provide generals as a “fuck you” to the English, which was like the French’s favorite pass time.
America was never about Americans tossing out a tyrant ruler.
Our country was founded on the rich dicking over the average American so they could accumulate more wealth and power personally.
If anyone actually wants some light reading on some of the the complex reasons the Colonies rebelled that isn’t such crude reductionism;
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Townshend_Acts
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intolerable_Acts
Intolerable Acts is the most interesting read imo.
On a website most people make posts that are barely two sentences…
It never surprises me how often people bitch that I didn’t cover ever single facet of an issue after typing paragrpaghs.
Like, my comments are already usually long enough people don’t read it all, but I still always get these (incredible short) comments mad that I didn’t spend two hours writing and sources my social media comments.
Not sure why you are getting down voted. This is pretty accurate. American history as taught in American schools is essentially indoctrination where all the bad parts are removed.
Many of the founding fathers were shitty people.