PSA

That is all.

Comments

[TheClassyLeviathan]

It’s treason then.

[Jade Dawn]

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AAAAAAARGH!!!

[Irrespective]

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Pesky historical details.

[Tenebre]

Proud traitor here!

[Jake The Army Guy]

Cowabunga it is, Imperials...

[Bobbles]

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[Georg]

Yes, indeed. On this date in 1776, a bunch of treasonous men betrayed their king and country, signing a declaration that they would no longer pay heed to their Dread Sovereign Majesty, George III. I like to think of it as the first Brexit.

[matt s0101745]

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The only thing the two events have in common are that someone is seceding from someone else and that Britain is involved.
Leaving aside the whole 'tainted by slavery' thing (seriously, anyone caring about freedom should be celebrating on December 6th or July 9th, the anniversaries of far more momentous advances in freedom), the American Revolution was about the British Empire subjecting the thirteen colonies to, as it was famously formulated, "taxation without representation"; however, it was more complicated than that, involving taxation, regulation (in particular the fear that Britain would ban slave labour), and corporation law, and in fact the cause of the Boston Tea Party was a tax cut designed to benefit a powerful corporation.
Brexit involves the question of whether Britain should make economic and other regulations in concert with the other European countries, and participate in European Union initiatives like the Galileo satellite navigation project, or whether it should make regulations on its own. It is not about the EU imposing regulations on Britain without representation, because Britain is represented in the EU.
In fact, arguably Brexit is more likely to cause "taxation without representation" than to cure it, because Britain will probably adopt most or all of the EU regulations anyway.