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[–] SlartyBartFast@sh.itjust.works 10 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I've had beef with them ever since they dressed up in redface and threw a bunch of perfectly good tea into the Boston harbour. Quite rude, and they never apologized for it.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Eh, I'm a pretty big fan of democracy. I kinda think I would have supported the side that wasn't about hereditary dictatorship.

But clearly, a lot of history has happened since then.

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Especially because they were doing it to protect their smuggling profits, not out of some great and noble cause.

Ungrateful sods too, because a lot of the war debt that the tariffs were meant to pay off were the result of beating the French on the American continent so that it could be settled by English colonists. Ever wonder why so many places in the US have French names? Detroit, Louisville, St. Louis, Lafayette, Reno (a.k.a. Renault), Arkansas, Illinois...

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Could have just not had the war...

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Well, for that you'd have to talk to a certain English colonist named "George Washington".

During a time when the English and French were technically at peace, this "Washington" fellow, a Lieutenant Colonel in the Virginia Regiment, ambushed a French detachment of 50 men, killing them all, including their commander who had been carrying a diplomatic message for the British.

This "Washington" fellow was a real fuck-up. Not only did he kick off the French and Indian war (also known as the 7 years war) by ambushing and killing a diplomatic courier during a time of peace, he then holed up in a fort which the French attacked and then he surrendered. When he surrendered, he signed a surrender document in which he took responsibility for assassinating Jumonville, the diplomatic courier.

This dude continued to fuck up too. He resigned his commission after this because as a colonial, he wasn't allowed to have the rank he thought he deserved. A year later, he signed on as an aide to General Edward Braddock, who was planning to expel the French from Fort Duquesne. Washington came up with the master plan of splitting the army into a main column and a second smaller "flying column". The French and their native allies ambushed the divided army and killed 2/3 of them, including General Braddock.

After a series of mistakes like that, I can only assume this guy faded into obscurity, forgotten as yet another failed son of a rich aristocrat. History is full of rich children like that who think they can play at "army" but who just keep screwing up.

[–] drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago (1 children)

And the British crown did not hang the British officer?

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 days ago

They probably should have. It might have changed history a bit if they had.

[–] kreskin@lemmy.world 1 points 5 days ago

beef has gotten really expensive in the US.

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world -3 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Dw us and the injuns got pay back. How did reward them? Oh right....https://www.ontario.ca/page/indian-residential-schools

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Ah yes. Native American. Famously for participating the the Boston tea... Hold on...

Are you a bot?

[–] beejboytyson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

You know Canadians burn down the white house, right? And the first nation people were the one that led the atk? Right?

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago

That's one of my favorite facts about the long storied history between Canada and the USA.

Ha ha.

[–] MystikIncarnate@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Strange way to bring up that particular atrocity.

Doesn't seem to have any bearing on the subject matter of the OP, or the commenter you're replying to.

Weird.

[–] TonyTonyChopper@mander.xyz 1 points 4 days ago

The parent comment alludes to "redface"