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paleotn

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1. Interesting fact...

Reply to KS Toronado (Original post)

Sat Jul 4, 2026, 12:25 PM

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In the 1760's / 70's, the average Londoner was taxed at a much higher rate than the American colonists. They simply had an MP and colonists didn't. Beyond that minor issue, if cooler heads, mainly Pitt the elder, and British pragmatism prevailed, the whole thing could have been avoided. We're really a product of hubris and foolish escalation. On both sides of the Atlantic.

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Interesting fact... paleotn Saturday #1

Beware of the English biophile Saturday #3

You be careful out among the English. paleotn Saturday #4

Yes biophile Saturday #6

Yet all we hear relogic Saturday #2

That, and the really weird AI right hand lol. Tiny Hands have been BSpackled MerryBlooms Saturday #5

One of the tyrannies against which the colonists revolted was the edict against settlement north/west of the Ohio River eppur_se_muova Saturday #7

Excellent point! Rhiannon12866 Sunday #8