The strange thing about July 4th Meme

[KS Toronado]

[paleotn]

1. Interesting fact...

In the 1760's / 70's, the average Londoner was taxed at a much higher rate than the American colonists. They simply had an MP and colonists didn't. Beyond that minor issue, if cooler heads, mainly Pitt the elder, and British pragmatism prevailed, the whole thing could have been avoided. We're really a product of hubris and foolish escalation. On both sides of the Atlantic.

[biophile]

3. Beware of the English

So say the Amish (supposedly)

[paleotn]

4. You be careful out among the English.

I love that movie.

[biophile]

6. Yes

I was kind of referencing Witness but I live in Amish country and it’s pretty true.

[relogic]

2. Yet all we hear

from the chanting, complicit, calculating dtrump crowd-“Freedom, USA, USA, USA, guns galore and more, immigrants stay away” I’d like to dump their stupid notion of patriotism into the Boston Harbor along with their tepid tea.

[MerryBlooms]

5. That, and the really weird AI right hand lol. Tiny Hands have been BSpackled

For months. The left is okay, but the fist? 🤣
At least they kinda got the, um... delicately put, female body part interpretive neck art, mostly on mark. 🤔🫣🧐😆
trump AI art dept going Woke on his neck!!?! Someone needs to throw a ketchup packet on that! Omgosh! I might get arrested for that one. If I do, call John Oliver!!!

[eppur_se_muova]

7. One of the tyrannies against which the colonists revolted was the edict against settlement north/west of the Ohio River

which George III agreed to in correspondence with a Native American chief whom he addressed as a fellow sovereign. Settlers and land speculators wanted access to ALL the land occupied by NAs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Proclamation_of_1763

[Rhiannon12866]

8. Excellent point!