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Nut to Butt posted:frankly, spain is the one that really dropped the ball remember when an american ship blew up cause some idiot placed its ammo stockpile next to a furnace and in response they declared war on spain it was p funny
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but then england would have had no incentive to be a democracy and been an empire forever with their lovely bangers in the mouths
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Elman posted:remember when an american ship blew up cause some idiot placed its ammo stockpile next to a furnace and in response they declared war on spain it was p funny we should have kept Cuba
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Universe Master posted:we should have kept Cuba really this is florida's fault
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Applewhite posted:Holland just called, they'd like a word with you. We're a monarchy now because of those limey cunts. Remember the raid on the Medway bitches!
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Molentik posted:We're a monarchy now because of those limey cunts. You're a Monarchy because the Orange family played you guys for suckers. Nice job electing an orange buffoon to be your leader, idiots.
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Alan Smithee posted:but then england would have had no incentive to be a democracy and been an empire forever with their lovely bangers in the mouths  democracies can be empires
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waving hand like "eh it's a seperate thing that owes its existence to the French as much as the British, and developed on its own lines culturally distinct from Canada which genuinely is Britain's fault"
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Applewhite posted:Holland just called, they'd like a word with you. The Netherlands just called, they'd like to let you know that calling them Holland is like calling the United States "Dakota"
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nawcom posted:The Netherlands just called, they'd like to let you know that calling them Holland is like calling the United States "Dakota" The 80's just called, they want their cell phones back.
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luv 2 date boys posted:it's cool, Canada still has a role as a very valuable hat! This is true as Canada was founded on European demand for fancy beaver hats. Our first currency was literally beaver tokens, hunters exchanged furs for them and everything was priced in beavers.
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funny i was thinking just the reverse!
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nawcom posted:The Netherlands just called, they'd like to let you know that calling them Holland is like calling the United States "Dakota" can tell this nerd is from part of the netherlands that isn't holland and that nobody outside the netherlands would recognize
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we in the usa also don't care if you call our country LA/NY or just "Lany."
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Nut to Butt posted:frankly, spain is the one that really dropped the ball That's true as well. Spain was so bad at building empires that they went bankrupt despite extracting thousands of boatloads of silver from South America. Also they wiped out most of civilization in the americas by being dirty and gross. Then they lost all of it and now Central America is ruled by drugs and poverty. Britain is incompetent, but Spain is just pathetic.
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The Skeleton King posted:That's true as well. Spain was so bad at building empires that they went bankrupt despite extracting thousands of boatloads of silver from South America. Also they wiped out most of civilization in the americas by being dirty and gross. Then they lost all of it and now Central America is ruled by drugs and poverty. Britain is incompetent, but Spain is just pathetic. we have the largest navy on Earth! suck it Britain! *a wind sinks them all*
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cough the founding fathers only represented wealthy elites/landed gentry who manufactured dissent against the otherwise hands-off dominion of the english crown in order to escape taxes which primarily affected them and not the several million colonials cough
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SciFiDownBeat posted:cough the founding fathers only represented wealthy elites/landed gentry who manufactured dissent against the otherwise hands-off dominion of the english crown in order to escape taxes which primarily affected them and not the several million colonials cough cough the English royal family is deeply inbred cough
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The Skeleton King posted:That's true as well. Spain was so bad at building empires that they went bankrupt despite extracting thousands of boatloads of silver from South America. Also they wiped out most of civilization in the americas by being dirty and gross. Then they lost all of it and now Central America is ruled by drugs and poverty. Britain is incompetent, but Spain is just pathetic. "building empires" ie getting inherited by a habsburg
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If New Amsterdam was never swapped with Surinam and didnt become New York, would Americans speak (even more) hosed up Dutch like South Africans do?
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nawcom posted:The Netherlands just called, they'd like to let you know that calling them Holland is like calling the United States "Dakota" Isnt it more like calling rhe United States new York or Washington? Because that's pretty normal
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SciFiDownBeat posted:cough the founding fathers only represented wealthy elites/landed gentry who manufactured dissent against the otherwise hands-off dominion of the english crown in order to escape taxes which primarily affected them and not the several million colonials cough And yet America is now the greatest so it turns out they were right
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The Skeleton King posted:and now you will become America. we loving wish
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Saint Isaias Boner posted:we loving wish Well, you will become south america
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And Britain is Normandy's fault. So, we can just go ahead and blame the French for everything like good anglos.
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The Skeleton King posted:Then the British, who were one of the most powerful military forces on earth at the time, got their poo poo canned by a bunch of angry hicks with muskets. The success of the American revolution was fully contingent on the military support of France, who's military was a match for the British forces. Without that support the revolution would have been anhilated.
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Dr Cheeto posted:The success of the American revolution was fully contingent on the military support of France, who's military was a match for the British forces. Without that support the revolution would have been anhilated. sounds to me like Britain can't fight two wars at once give you one guess who can
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I'm just saying, maybe we should blame France
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Dr Cheeto posted:I'm just saying, maybe we should blame France the french responsible for funding the American revolution got what was coming to them soon after, don't worry.
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The Skeleton King posted:Stupid British. You guys think you are so much better than Americans when the truth is that America was born from your incompetence. All you had to do was negotiate taxes better and the colonies would have been content, but instead you dumb fuckers doubled down and caused a rebellion. Then the British, who were one of the most powerful military forces on earth at the time, got their poo poo canned by a bunch of angry hicks with muskets. Actually you can't blame Britan for it entirely. One of the big things the British was arguing with America about that you NEVER loving see in American history books is slavery. It was already going out of style in the UK at that point and the US was whole-hog "slaves are great!" But like Canada taking the white house, America never mentions it's bad bullshit in history books. Real history is nothing like the history I learned as a kid, even if it's mostly lies of omission. ED: Everyone in the UK kinda thought Columbus was an extremist shithead and nobody liked him, because the guy was a genocidal selfish rear end in a top hat hosed up by even the standards of the day. I find the fact was still celebrate the guy hilarious. He literally dumb lucked into the greatest find he could make. Blazing Ownager fucked around with this message at 21:22 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:Actually you can't blame Britan for it entirely. which would be a good point if less than a hundred years later the British didn't waffle on who to support in the Civil War based on all that cheap cotton they were buying
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VikingSkull posted:which would be a good point if less than a hundred years later the British didn't waffle on who to support in the Civil War based on all that cheap cotton they were buying What the British were doing in their African colonies was basically slavery, they just called it "taxes" and let the local chief crack the whip instead. the British abused the hell out of their African colonies long after they outlawed "slavery"
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Rutibex posted:What the British were doing in their African colonies was basically slavery, they just called it "taxes" and let the local chief crack the whip instead. the British abused the hell out of their African colonies long after they outlawed "slavery" one good thing though is they bought opium from India and sold it at fair market value to the Chinese very forward thinking of them, truly a model of civilization
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VikingSkull posted:one good thing though is they bought opium from India and sold it at fair market value to the Chinese history is bizarrely ironic and it never ceases to amuse me that the country that still makes the biggest fuss over the opium wars is now exporting synthetic opiates like fentanyl in bulk overseas Marijuana Nihilist fucked around with this message at 22:43 on Dec 17, 2016 |
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Dr Cheeto posted:The success of the American revolution was fully contingent on the military support of France, who's military was a match for the British forces. Without that support the revolution would have been anhilated. Eh the British still whipped the revolutionaries in every stand-up fight. The key was that they were unwilling to follow through with the standard genocide tactics for colonies on a population that was ethnically and culturally identical to themselves. In other words, reverse racism won the war and saved America
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Marijuana Nihilist posted:history is bizarrely ironic and it never ceases to amuse me that the country that still makes the biggest fuss over the opium wars is now exporting synthetic opiates like fentanyl in bulk overseas I think that they would consider it fair game and an appropriately ironic revenge
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