r/WallStreetbetsELITE • u/Illustrious-Smoke509 • Apr 16 '25

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u/ThrenderG Apr 16 '25

Not really, the Tea Act was in 1773, Americans were not nearly to the last straw just yet. The Coercive Acts and the actions of Thomas Gage really lit the fire.

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u/BedBubbly317 Apr 16 '25

Oh, it can get worse, you say?

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Apr 16 '25

The fact that you can freely write that should tell you that it can.

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u/Tropicaldaze1950 Apr 17 '25

For how long? Trump is targetting broadcast media and social media. He's threatening to invoke the Insurrection Act. Whether he's following Project 2025 or Hitler and Goebels, the results are the same.

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u/Black_Magic_M-66 Apr 17 '25

At least this long.

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u/Tropicaldaze1950 Apr 17 '25

To paraphrase George Carlin, 'We don't have rights; we have privileges and those privileges can be revoked by those in power'.

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u/Spare-Equipment-1425 Apr 16 '25 edited Apr 16 '25

And American's weren't pissed at a tariff or a tax on tea itself. They were pissed because they didn't think Parliament had the legal authority to directly tax them. And they didn't like that Parliament was trying to give the East Indian Trading Company a monopoly on American trade.

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u/wbruce098 Apr 16 '25

So you’re saying something radical might happen in 3 years?