• CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world
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    Shit, At this point we need the tax evader gang to rise up. Like wtf am I even paying federal taxes for at this point?? I live in a deep blue state for a reason and every opportunity to remove federal funding is being taken against us here, I’ve been kicked off my disability benefits (I have cystic fibrosis and I’m post lung transplant with debilitating PTSD from both) I also happen to be a woman who’s country is actively disenfranchising her, yet I’m paying federal taxes? For what?? No taxation without representation and I’m sure as fuck not being represented

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      Kiwis would have too, if the indigenous people in question hadn’t been the toughest motherfuckers outside the Zulu nation.

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      Kiwis would have too, if the indigenous people in question hadn’t been the toughest motherfuckers outside the Zulu nation.

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    Most of those ‘crimes’ were just… being too poor to pay their debts. Shipping off the poor made England look better.

    The ‘criminals’ of Aus are, at least in this respect, my brothers.

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    australia is ‘rehabilitated’.

    the u.s. is run by repeat offenders.

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    Australia is our cool, and weird, brother. Canada is our little brother that’s sick of our bullshit. England is the father we’ve all disappointed but has to rely on because he’s too old to rule the world anymore. And we’re the kid that had a semi-promising start, but got into drugs and crime and is now a mob boss.

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    The taxes were a small reason. Big reasons were continuing slave owning and genociding the indigenous population.

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      If anyone is curious:

      The Slavery Abolition Act 1833 (3 & 4 Will. 4. c. 73) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which abolished slavery in the British Empire by way of compensated emancipation.

      But…

      Slavery had been judged to be without legal basis in England in 1772. In May of that year, Lord Mansfield’s judgment in the Somerset case emancipated a slave who had been brought to England from Boston in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, and thus helped launch the movement to abolish slavery throughout the British Empire.

      So yeah, the ruling was in 1772 and the US decided to declare their independence and the Preamble begins with:

      We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.

      * Except for slaves…

      All of this is from Wikipedia.

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    I like how you have no idea that the territories of the us looked very different when it was the 13 colonies

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      Are you telling me that those territorial boarders were arbitrary? And that Destiny didn’t Manifest itself? ON AMERICA’S BIRTHDAY!?1?!?!?1?

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    There was criminal colonies all over the British empire

    A lot of rich Brits also colonised Australia after the basic infrastructure was there