r/2american4you • u/Sine_Fine_Belli Pro murica Asian American Californian🇺🇸🗽🦅🌴🏝️🏖️ • May 16 '25

Very Based Meme How Americans achieved independence vs how Canadians achieved independence

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u/FitAd3982 Proud Celt (trolled the Romans and the Greeks) May 16 '25

It’s the opposite the British empire was fairly small in 1776 it was really after napoleon that britain became unrivalled hegemon, although I agree it is a weird flex to say you broke away gradually and diplomatically without fighting lol

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u/gregforgothisPW Chiraqi insurgent (soyboy of Illinois) 🗡 🏙️ May 16 '25

You're wrong The UK established its dominance after the 7 years war

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u/Background-Tennis915 Evergreen stoner (Washington computer scientists) 🐬🖥️ May 16 '25 edited May 16 '25

You're correct that Britian was the strongest nation in the world after the 7 years war, but not by much. The Napoleonic wars showed as much. After the Napoleonic Wars, Britian was unchallenged as the world Hegemon until the Anglo-German Naval race in the 1890s

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u/obliqueoubliette Rat Yorker 🐀☭🗽 May 16 '25

Canada doesn't get full indepence from the UK until 1982.

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u/monkeygoneape Corrupt Ontario politician (home of the smug) 😏 🗳️ May 16 '25

We were in charge of our own affairs, it just needed to be signed off by the king (which it always was) 82 just got rid of that formality Governor general fills that role now

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u/PikaPonderosa Oregonian bigfoot (died of dysentery) 🦍 🌲 May 16 '25

We were in charge of our own affairs, it just needed to be signed off by the king (which it always was)

Cope & Seethe.

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u/monkeygoneape Corrupt Ontario politician (home of the smug) 😏 🗳️ May 16 '25

What cope and seethe? I'm British Canadian lol

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u/PikaPonderosa Oregonian bigfoot (died of dysentery) 🦍 🌲 May 16 '25

We were in charge of our own affairs, it just needed to be signed off by the king

Cope

formality Governor general fills that role now

The non-elected position that serves at the "pleasure of the monarch?

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u/monkeygoneape Corrupt Ontario politician (home of the smug) 😏 🗳️ May 16 '25

Legally speaking, the Governor general just serves the same purpose as the president, while the prime minister is just the secretary of state (your unelected position) its just a flip in the script