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Paul Revere, Sarah Palin and Wikipedia

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[lozbabie]

"The piece has been edited to read as follows: “He is famous for riding from Boston to Lexington, Massachusetts with William Dawes on the night of April 18, 1775 ringing bells to warn the British that colonists would exercise their natural rights to both bear arms and use them in an effort secede from the United Kingdom in response to Big Government bullying and interfering with Colony’s Rights.”"

Where's a headdesk GIF when I need one?

[beoweasel]

...wat

[sillysallyfckup]

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seriously

[apocalypsos]

in response to Big Government bullying and interfering with Colony’s Rights.

*coughcoughprojectingcoughcough*

[lozbabie]

Wasn't it the exact opposite? It was the fact that they WEREN'T getting govt that was so upsetting to the Americans at that time. (my American history sucks)

[apocalypsos]

Yeah, it's sort of spelled out in the phrase "Taxation Without Representation", although Tea Party types like to stop at the "Taxation" part and completely ignore the part where the reason the colonists were pissed was the same reason that the people who live Washington, D.C. have been pissed about for years. It's not the taxation that's the problem, it's not having a voice in the government into which they pay.

[lozbabie]

Thanks. I did US History years ago but my focus was always European (never intrested in Australian history. It's so fucking boring) Of course now I'm into American history my local library sucks and has no US History before 1960. I've tried to find E-Pub stuff online but it's always fiction never decent history.

[apocalypsos]

Oh, man, I've always been a bit of an American history junkie. When I was little, my local library had an entire floor-to-ceiling bookshelf of biographies of famous Americans throughout history and I blew through the lot of them one summer.

I can't recall if I've got any good American history epubs on my eReader. I do know that one of these days when I can afford it, I really do need to get digital copies of the books in my disaster nonfiction collection.

[3bird]

Your comment made it occur to me that I know extremely little about Australian history, and I even studied abroad there :S Also history of the British Empire is my favorite pet subject. I hang my head in shame.

[3bird]

YES. Their gripe was not having direct representation in the British parliament. Also Britain did away with the local governments the colonists set up. (I guess the Palin folk would try to shoehorn that into a federal government vs. states' rights argument, but uh, no.)

Since you're looking for ePubs, Sarah Vowell's books are fun little slices of US history but they kind of straddle the fiction/non-fiction fence, though they fall more on the non-fiction side.

[kyra_neko_rei]

. . . They actually sound like that when they're being serious?

I mean, that's actually what they say? They actually sound exactly like we do when we're making fun of them?

BRB dying of laughter.

[amyura]

You really need to check that site out. If your blood pressure can handle it, that is. The entries for feminism, the Democrats, Obama, and abortion are so patently ridiculous that they sound like they were written by a fifth-grader at a fundamentalist Christian school.

[sesmo]

I can never tell if it's really dry satire or if they actually mean it.

[celtic_thistle]

christ on a crouton

[bmh4d0k3n]

I call troll. Still hilarious.