The beginnings of the American Revolution, simplified
BRITISH EMPIRE: All right, fine, your stupid embargo worked. We won’t levy any more taxes-AMERICAN COLONIES: Huzzah! Time to get drunk!
BRITISH EMPIRE: Except on tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: What?
BRITISH EMPIRE: Get over it, it’s just tea. Seriously, where do you get this idea that you’re special and should never have to pay taxes? We hope that idea doesn’t go on to infect your political discourse centuries from now.
AMERICAN COLONIES: We’re not buying your stupid tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Are you being serious right now? What are you going to do, just stop drinking tea?
AMERICAN COLONIES: Yes. We’ll drink coffee.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do you even know what that is?
AMERICAN COLONIES: No, but we’ve heard it’s good and we’re feeling surly.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Fine, whatever, we don’t even care what you do anymore.
BRITISH EAST INDIA COMPANY: Actually, we are pretty much bankrupt, so you need to make them drink the tea.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Oh, for—just drink the tea.
AMERICAN COLONIES: No.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Do it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: NO.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it.
AMERICAN COLONIES: Fuck you.
BRITISH EMPIRE: Drink it or we’ll punch you in the face.
AMERICAN COLONIES: *Boston Tea Party*
BRITISH EMPIRE: What the hell?
AMERICAN COLONIES: We heard it was Indians.
BRITISH EMPIRE: That’s interesting, because we heard it was a bunch of colonists wearing paint and dressed in costumes that were remarkably similar to what a crowd of drunks who wanted to look like Indians would assemble if the only supplies they had were found in an alley behind a bar.
AMERICAN COLONIES: You get all types in Boston.
BRITISH EMPIRE: …*Coercive Acts*
AMERICAN COLONIES: Oh, it is ON.
Here's my favorite part of this, which I rarely see spelled out. The French and Indian War was the American front of the 7 Years in Europe that was mostly betwee Britain and France, right?
*WRONG*
The Seven Years war is generally considered by Americans to have started in 1756. But one of the first armed conflicts in the lead up to war happened in 1754, between a French-Canadian camp of soldiers and a British American militia led by a certain Lieutenant Colonel George Washington. Yes, THAT, one. They were both occupying part of the Ohio valley, because of disagreement over who had the right to settle there. It's generally agreed that Washington attacked first, and it was a massacre. He did act under the commission of the Governor of Virginia to kill or destroy anyone who impended settlement in the area. But the Governor seems to have not put the funds for this militia up before of the House of Burgesses and sure as heck wasn't acting under an order from higher up.
http: //en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jumonville_Glen
The Seven Year's War, as you may recall, nearly bankrupted the British Crown. They started upping taxes.
So. Our first president helped to precipitate an international war, by being a shoot first sort of cowboy in peacetime. And then the American colonies resent taxes to pay for said war, that was in large part over defending their expansionist policies.
I think maybe that set the tone for the US good and proper, don't you?
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Right now, I’d like to address the issue of the gender spectrum. Now, I know that not ALL trans people believe in the spectrum, but many do. Many “cis” people believe it too.
Here is my crappy Paint drawing of the spectrum vs. the binary. Sorry for the piss poor quality.
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Uh. I am not trans*and I don’t claim to speak for anyone but myself. But I just wanna say, since your statistic about variations in sex chromosomes appears to be completely made up, it’s really hard to take you seriously. What you *wrote* is that only one in a million people have something other than XX or XY. Perhaps you should do some research before you get on your high horse?
If your reply is that 99.9999% was meant to be a dramatic exaggeration, I still side eye you hard. Mixing things that could be taken as serious statistics with a blog that seems to be taking the position you will prove how right you are with science, does not jive.
