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  • Thats an oversimplification so complete that is basically is a lie.

    Firstly the taxes were raised largely on the American colonies to pay for the costs of the French-Indian war, which may seem reasonable at first since the colonies benefited the most in territories. Problem is that Britain more or less completely banned colonists doing anything in those lands, this created the issue where Britain was taxing for all of the colonies when they still effectively had the same economy as they did before the war.

    Secondly the Taxes were fucking horrible, it was for all intents and purposes a tariff on all non-american goods. If it wasnt made in the american colonies then you had to pay a rather god awful tax. Also they did it twice.

    Thirdly the rich were arguably the ones trying to do anything other than revolution. They tried to get the taxes repealed, get more autonomy for the colonies, and even just a couple seats in parliament, they got continuously ignored they became radicalized right alongside everyone else and said fuck it we go to war.


  • Dude im Californian, just cause im historically literate doesnt make me a Canadian. Regardless Canada does in fact have that shit, sure its not the highest end but its still effective. Ignoring that they would probably switch over to asymmetric warfare pretty damned quickly, the Quebecois alone would probably set enough car bombs off to make a Irishman blush.

    Also as I said if the US goes to war with Canada there is no way in hell you dont see at minimum the west coast and New England go into open and violent revolt. Also the rest of NATO is infact a thing. Canada may not hold out in open combat but the US would also be dealing with at minimum a three front war, two thirds of which would be a civil war.