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[–] Kennystillalive@feddit.org 25 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean when you are on board with the genocide💁

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

For real, their complaint of “royal tyranny” was that the King refused to overrule the elected Parliament’s law against genociding the native Americans.

[–] PugJesus@piefed.social 17 points 2 days ago

The royal proclamation of 1763 was not a major factor in tensions in the colonies.

[–] ManixT@lemmy.world 23 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't think they taxed stamps, they were tax stamps on goods indicating that taxes have been paid (to people they didn't want to pay taxes to).

[–] teft@piefed.social 7 points 2 days ago

They were stamps as in they were stamped into paper. The stamp act 1765 was about that. Basically anything printed in america had to be printed on paper from london. That paper had a stamp embossed on each sheet.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I mean, to be fair, they wiped a high enough percentage of the locals in NA off the map that your meme is about stamps and sugar instead of the genocide that happened.

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The people who mad about tea and sugar are not the same as the genocided ones.

[–] DarkSirrush@piefed.ca 4 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

Ohhh.. Sorry, my dyslexia took over and I misinterpreted what you said 😅

[–] mod_pp@lemmy.world 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Uganda be kidding me with that joke.

[–] zloubida@sh.itjust.works 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

That Irish! You're doing the same thing!

[–] ayyy@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 days ago

This guy Israeli scraping at the bottom for puns.

[–] KuroiKaze@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

Actually, usually we are doing the clenched hands meme with the center being hating the British.

[–] Steve@startrek.website 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

“Discover” “new” land, kill everyone who lives there.

Standard operating procedure really.

[–] Sergio@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago

Closer to "divide and conquer" then treat the native people like subhumans and extract everything of value. Note that the "American" in this meme is a colonist not a native.

[–] youCanCallMeDragon@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)