I can't anymore. The Boston Tea Party was much more complicated than a mere example of a riot about taxes.
The tea taxes were a means for England to raise funds to pay Colonial Governors to remain loyal to England. But, and here's the important part, the British East India Company was absolved from paying these taxes on Chinese tea (giving them a massive advantage over colonial importers), and they were instead diverted onto colonial merchants. Thus they were being taxed by a foreign government without representation in Parliament. Several ships had been turned away without problem in other colonies, but the Governor of Boston refused to let the ships leave. In return, Britain punished the shit out of everyone, and we fought a war. Oh, by the way, they dressed up like Native Americans so they wouldn't be identified.
If you're arguing for war, great! If you're not arguing for war, too bad you're arguing for war. If i'm lucky someone will mercifully kill me before i have to care.
And that's why i write all my words and don't share memes.
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