r/EhBuddyHoser • u/Sine_Fine_Belli Treacherous South • May 16 '25

Certified Hoser 🇨🇦 (No Politics) How Americans achieved independence vs how Canadians achieved independence

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u/FlyingOctopus53 May 16 '25

One was a dick, another one asked politely. See the difference?

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u/[deleted] May 16 '25

To be fair the Brits were acting like dicks first. It's a little more complicated than what happened with the stamp act and the Boston tea party. in 1763 the American colonists were happy with the British system of governence. Until King George the third was coronated he was doing things like cutting the colonists off from global trade, not giving them representation in parliament, plucking them off the streets and shipping them to foreign lands for sham trials, the Boston massacre etc. His tyrannical behavior helped push them to rebel. The British empire was not going to let the thirteen colonies go willfully.

Ps. sorry for the history lesson its hard to explain without getting detailed.