Political Memes

Yeah, actually this is a bad meme. From a recent comment of mine:

9 officers were surrounded by like 300 angry Bostonians who were wielding clubs and other weapons and goading them to fire their weapons while throwing shit at them. The fact that the only punishment for the officers who killed five people following their trial (in colonial court defended by John Adams) was that two had their thumbs branded indicated how two-sided the situation was.

Paul Revere’s famous engraving depicting the incident was intentional anti-British propaganda used to advance the cause of the revolution.

Actually...

The reason they dumped tea is they were smugglers (mostly thugs paid by smugglers).

Brits had just started enforcing taxation, and requiring all shipments go thru England. It was more expensive for American smugglers, and the giant established trade companies would dominate the market.

So when the Brits seized a bunch of smuggled shipments, the smugglers destroyed as much of the legal tea as possible.

This resulted in colonists barely being able to afford it, but the smugglers could charge enough to remain in operation.

Colonists could have paid for taxed tea cheaper than they had been paying, it's just the "new money" in American didn't want to give up the market.

It was the wealthy fucking over the poor and it's embarrassing so many adults don't understand what really happened.

For bonus points, they dressed as natives in the hopes that any revenge would be against the innocent locals. Which is extra fucked up that people try to twist that into a political statement too.

Stop blindly believing what we learned in grade school public education

Yeah, dumb take.

The Americans at the time were way worse than the British. The Boston Massacre was a great example of propaganda that was pushed by the wealthy's news outlets to divide the colonists.

The founding father's were manipulative fucks that used terror and lies to take control of the colonies for their own interests.

Washington was on his way to becoming the first billionaire adjusted for inflation. This just reinforces there are no good guys.

Also, the British freed colonial slaves.

George Washington himself lost some of his slaves to the British army