• ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 day ago

    So you’re defending the East India Trading Co and the British Empire?

    Really?

    So much for anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism I guess. Literally the worst examples of either: But don’t destwoy de pwoperty boo hoo!

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      47 minutes ago

      I didn’t mention them at all. I was using sarcasm to show how ridiculous it is to claim destroying stuff is peaceful. As for right now, I think a lot of yelling and a little bit of property damage is a whole a very valid even if tame response to violent kidnapping of your neighbors.

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        9 minutes ago

        Sons of Liberty activists boarded the Dartmouth, a British ship that had docked in Boston carrying a major shipment of East India Company tea, and set about throwing 342 chests of the tea into Boston Harbor.

        I didn’t mention them at all.

        Then, in your analogy, who’s home was “broken in to” and who’s property was “thrown in the rain to be destroyed?”

        You mentioned them analogously, clearly.

        But fine, it’s technically not peaceful to resist the world’s largest regime by salting their tea, I suppose.