Over half the forces deployed on D-Day fought for the British Crown. It’s pretty confusing messaging.
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In what way? The tyrant king part?
EDIT: Ah, I see what you mean now. It took me a while to get what you meant since I consider the UK during WW2 to be a form of democracy. You may have technically still been a constitutional Monarchy, but it was a parliamentary democracy in practice, as they are today, and have been pretty much since 1928.
That’s a load of bullshit too. The British Crown had genuine separation of powers in its dual-sovereignty arrangement with Parliament, leading Thomas Jefferson to observe “kings are the servants, not the proprietors of the people.” So what led him within 2 years to draft a Declaration of Independence?
Well, it was a tantrum based on two things. First, that taxation was introduced levied by Britain rather than the colonies alone - the tax burden of the colonist being 90% less than that of those in Britain, btw, and secondly, the activists failed in their attempt to get the King to actually become a tyrant and overrule Parliament in their decision to disallow the colonies’ genocidal territorial ambitions to the west, preferring instead to pursue diplomatic partnerships with the native Americans.
So no, most people on D-Day fought for King and Country, and no, the American Revolution had little at all to do with royal tyrany (or taxation). In fact, had George been a US President, he’d be more liberal than most of the recent ones have been.
You have much stronger feelings about this than I do, especially since I didn't write the original blurb in the post body to begin with 😅
We're just trying to get people amped up to resist our current regime, and I suspect the person who wrote that was trying to tap into that classic and slightly cringe 'Rah rah, America!" patriotism that we're so well known for.
I get that, but the messaging is not great, for one event involved a King as key ally, and another involved lies about a king bringing about a bloody civil war in America. ::shrug::
I won't argue the Revolutionary war, but in my opinion, in WW1 and WW2 the UK was in practice a parliamentary democracy, even if it was/is 'officially' a constitutional monarchy.
In practice, it was in the 18th Century too for the most part. The prospect of height reassignment surgery has an effect on a King.
In every century in American history, the patriots of our armed services have risen to defend democracy and freedom during extraordinary crises.
In the 20th century, Americans fought on the shores of Europe to defend democracy and freedom from the forces of fascism.
Like Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria?
The current President of the United States has brought dishonor to America
No, that has been a running theme for few decades.
American patriots now face the crisis of our time
Fuck yo patriots. US is one of the few active tyrannical countries today, forcefully imposing its will onto the world.
You deserve the leopard eating your face.