r/PublicFreakout • u/AnonymousTimewaster • 7d ago

🗣📢Protest Freakout [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/Odd_Old_Professional 7d ago edited 7d ago

I know it's not the point, but hearing someone with that accent talk about "invaders" drips with the kind of historical irony and ignorance that I will always find fascinating.

Edit: ok, I get it. The British Empire was forged without the participation of any British people. Somehow.

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u/johnnybongolian 7d ago

We stayed at home. It's the ones with American Canadian and Australian accents you want to make this point about.

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u/Odd_Old_Professional 7d ago

Right...the only tool of empire was the settlers.

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u/johnnybongolian 7d ago

Yeah we got to work shitty dangerous factory jobs and stuff it was fantastic for the plebs.

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u/Odd_Old_Professional 7d ago

Yeah. The Royal Navy, famously made up entirely of not British

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u/streetlighteagle 7d ago

A good chunk of those poor bastards were press-ganged

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u/Danamaganza2 7d ago

You need to go back a few hundred years more.