• pelespirit@sh.itjust.works
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    It was peaceful? I mean, it has party in the name, not massacre. Also, it led to the revolution over time and gathered more and more people.

    Disguised as Native Americans the night of December 16, 1773, Sons of Liberty activists boarded the Dartmouth, a British ship that had docked in Boston carrying a major shipment of East India Company tea, and set about throwing 342 chests of the tea into Boston Harbor. The British government considered the protest an act of treason and responded harshly.[3] Nine days later, on December 25, at the Philadelphia Tea Party, American patriots similarly protested the arrival of a British tea shipment, which arrived aboard the British ship Polly. While the Philadelphia patriot activists did not destroy the tea, they sent the ship back to England without unloading it.

    In addition to proving one of the most influential events of the American Revolution, the Boston Tea Party has proved an enduring historical symbol. In the 21st century, drawing inspiration from the symbolism of the Boston Tea Party in 1773, the Tea Party movement drew its name from it and has frequently cited the principles associated with it and the broader American Revolution as inspirational and guiding principles.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Tea_Party

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      1 month ago

      So if some random group comes in your home and throws all your stuff outside in the rain to destroy it, According to you they are being peaceful? Very peaceful behavior, Indeed.

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        I mean, yes. Violence involves physically harming people (or threatening to), not property. At least by WHO’s definition. So I mean the point being that most of these protests are not violent, just maybe destructive (and even then, most people are not being destructive.) the violence comes from the police, or literally florida saying they WILL kill you.

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          That’s what has been infuriating me about any news coverage of any protest anywhere. They treat property with the moral equivalence of newborns. They treat property with more compassion than the common people.

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        So you’re defending the East India Trading Co and the British Empire?

        Really?

        So much for anti-capitalism and anti-imperialism I guess. Literally the worst examples of either: But don’t destwoy de pwoperty boo hoo!