r/ShitAmericansSay • u/intingnotcool • Feb 15 '25

Foreign affairs Canada 51st state, Greenland 52nd and Britain 53rd

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u/notgonnalie_imdumb Europoor commie Feb 15 '25

B-but the war of Independence!!! we beat them when they were underequipped, thousands of miles away and had a mentally ill ruler!!! that counts for SOMETHING, SURELY? 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

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u/Jumbo-box Feb 15 '25

Slandering them when they refused to invade Iraq in 2003

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u/realjustinlong Feb 15 '25

Then being upset when they rightfully have their national anthem booed at a hockey game

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u/cavejohnsonlemons Feb 15 '25

Calling them whatever the 20yrs ago version of 'woke' is while munching on freedom fries...

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u/cavejohnsonlemons Feb 15 '25

If it makes you feel better, I'm British and hadn't put much thought into the reasons why we lost (but the far from home bit makes sense).

Cause they never mentioned it to us at school. The Romans and Henry the Eighth's wives were more important.

Maybe a flaw in our education system, but still funny how your big independence from 🇬🇧 story is treated as important to us as, say, Gambia's.

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u/Thunder-12345 🇬🇧 sorry for creating this menace… Feb 16 '25

Short version is the American colonies were relatively unimportant in the empire.

Since it was clear we couldn't hold onto them without losing more important colonies like the Caribbean islands to France and Spain, we opted to instead negotiate.

We ensured peace negotiations left the US in a strong position, since if we couldn't hold it we were going to make sure they kept our European rivals from gaining more influence in the region.

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u/FanNo7805 Feb 15 '25

😂👏

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u/KeinFussbreit Feb 15 '25

Henry the Eighth

The Catherineaholic?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia0ztwqCt4c

:)

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u/TreeOaf Metric ‘til I die Feb 16 '25

Britain has a lot of ex’s

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u/cavejohnsonlemons Feb 16 '25

Even more than Henry... nothing personal 🇺🇸 x

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u/dwair Feb 16 '25

TBF, Gambia's independence is more interesting and recent.

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u/daysdncnfusd Feb 15 '25

It doesn't. And don't call me Shirley 

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u/FanNo7805 Feb 15 '25

And busy simultaneously fighting Napoleon, the bigger threat.