re: #101 Kragar

Two wingnut misunderstandings about the American Revolution really bug me, if only because without these misunderstandings, 95% of their non-Hitler rhetoric would be gone.

1: We did not revolt because we were asked to pay taxes. We revolted because we had no representation in Parliament.

2: Great Britain was not a “tyrannical” government, certainly not by the standards of the 18th century. I mean, what kind of fucking tyranny has a functional Parliament in the first place?

Basically, we did as pretty much every colonial people does to its imperial masters. The only difference is that wingnuts celebrate how we did it, while dismissing any dark-skinned people who did it in the 1950s or 1960s as “communists”.

The end.