This doesn’t get any less inaccurate with each repost.
FrostingGrand1413 on
George Washington: It is an act of sheer tyranny to expect us to fund your stupid european wars that have nothing to do with us in the colonies, also, please, nobody ask who fired the first shots killing the first frenchmen that kicked off the whole affair, regardless of how smart, handsome, and daring he happened to be.
Ill-Palpitation8843 on
For funny this is good but for actually learning this is terrible
Smart-Response9881 on
Forgot a step about Royal Proclamation of 1763 which banned settlements further west, which is what the colonists fought for in the first place.
DefiantPosition on
And the people in the colonies would have been fine with that, if they could have gotten a say in how those taxes would be used.
The whole “no taxation without repressentation” thing.
ultipuls3 on
You Brits really need to get over it. This is just embarrassing at this point.
_mogulman31 on
It was about lack of representation in the government. Also, believing a colonial power only defends their holdings for the benefit of the colonists is a woefully ignorant understand of geo-politics. The British fought against the French because they wanted to protect their territorial claims and the economic benefit therein, also because that’s just what the English and French did until Germany unified and forced them to become allies.
ThatGuyYouMightNo on
Did you skip over the “without representation” part of “no taxation without representation”, OP?
ZaBaronDV on
Reposting it for the 150th time doesn’t make it more accurate.
G_MAN_3000 on
Bro you lost get over it
ZAPPHAUSEN on
mehhhhhhhhhhh i know memes simplify shit, but this is just… not remotely accurate
Lolmanmagee on
It was not necessarily that there were taxes.
It was that there was taxation without representation.
If they had a representative who was a part of parliament who theoretically agreed to the taxes by majority vote it probably would have been fine.
But they had no say in tax policy, it was inflicted onto them.
levindragon on
The British: The French and Indian War was just a small side show to the much larger and more important 7 Year War. You colonials were not that important.
Also the British: OP’s meme.
CriminallyCasual7 on
This meme seems like it was made by a resentful brit. Did you get too much spice in your banana toast today? Get arrested for a social media post? I do feel sorry for you, hang in there, wee lad.
Nerdenator on
Okay, give us some MPs so that we can have an actual discussion about how to best raise taxes.
jimjam200 on
Why when I have hidden posts from this sub like 3 times do I keep getting posts from this sub?
PositiveMaster8236 on
The Americans proceeded to get money from the French they were literally fighting against, to fund their new proxy war against the British. The French then became bankrupt after the war, the peasant class inspired by the American revolution have their own revolution. They then ask the Americans to finally pay back the money owed, The Americans declared the money was only meant for the literally tyrannical absolute French Monarchy, not the democratic French revolutionary government. France and the USA go to War, which only stops when Napoleon, a military dictator who turns France back into a monarchist state, abolishes democracy and brings back slavery. Yay Freedom!.
IIIaustin on
The fantastic book the Sinews of Power discusses how citizens of England at the time accepted higher rates of taxation than their continental counterparts *in exchang* for being able to scrutinize government spending in parliament.
The colonies did not have representation in parliament, which is kinda what the whole thing was about.
zehamberglar on
>without representation
You limeys have had 250 years to figure out what this means.
Left_Question_7172 on
The intolerable acts would like a word.
vampiregamingYT on
There was also the unfair trading practices the British enforced, the lack of representation in the British Parliament, and the British refusing to let Americans colonize the new territories.
22 Comments
No taxation without representation.
This doesn’t get any less inaccurate with each repost.
George Washington: It is an act of sheer tyranny to expect us to fund your stupid european wars that have nothing to do with us in the colonies, also, please, nobody ask who fired the first shots killing the first frenchmen that kicked off the whole affair, regardless of how smart, handsome, and daring he happened to be.
For funny this is good but for actually learning this is terrible
Forgot a step about Royal Proclamation of 1763 which banned settlements further west, which is what the colonists fought for in the first place.
And the people in the colonies would have been fine with that, if they could have gotten a say in how those taxes would be used.
The whole “no taxation without repressentation” thing.
You Brits really need to get over it. This is just embarrassing at this point.
It was about lack of representation in the government. Also, believing a colonial power only defends their holdings for the benefit of the colonists is a woefully ignorant understand of geo-politics. The British fought against the French because they wanted to protect their territorial claims and the economic benefit therein, also because that’s just what the English and French did until Germany unified and forced them to become allies.
Did you skip over the “without representation” part of “no taxation without representation”, OP?
Reposting it for the 150th time doesn’t make it more accurate.
Bro you lost get over it
mehhhhhhhhhhh i know memes simplify shit, but this is just… not remotely accurate
It was not necessarily that there were taxes.
It was that there was taxation without representation.
If they had a representative who was a part of parliament who theoretically agreed to the taxes by majority vote it probably would have been fine.
But they had no say in tax policy, it was inflicted onto them.
The British: The French and Indian War was just a small side show to the much larger and more important 7 Year War. You colonials were not that important.
Also the British: OP’s meme.
This meme seems like it was made by a resentful brit. Did you get too much spice in your banana toast today? Get arrested for a social media post? I do feel sorry for you, hang in there, wee lad.
Okay, give us some MPs so that we can have an actual discussion about how to best raise taxes.
Why when I have hidden posts from this sub like 3 times do I keep getting posts from this sub?
The Americans proceeded to get money from the French they were literally fighting against, to fund their new proxy war against the British. The French then became bankrupt after the war, the peasant class inspired by the American revolution have their own revolution. They then ask the Americans to finally pay back the money owed, The Americans declared the money was only meant for the literally tyrannical absolute French Monarchy, not the democratic French revolutionary government. France and the USA go to War, which only stops when Napoleon, a military dictator who turns France back into a monarchist state, abolishes democracy and brings back slavery. Yay Freedom!.
The fantastic book the Sinews of Power discusses how citizens of England at the time accepted higher rates of taxation than their continental counterparts *in exchang* for being able to scrutinize government spending in parliament.
The colonies did not have representation in parliament, which is kinda what the whole thing was about.
>without representation
You limeys have had 250 years to figure out what this means.
The intolerable acts would like a word.
There was also the unfair trading practices the British enforced, the lack of representation in the British Parliament, and the British refusing to let Americans colonize the new territories.