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agile_a [S] 19 points ago +20 / -1

it may come to a point when the tree of liberty must be refreshed by the blood of patriots and tyrants

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Razeontherock 18 points ago +18 / -0

Or as someone else so eloquently put it, "George Washington and his homies would've been stacking bodies long before this."

The war is not lost. We have not begun to fight! Literally.

But the Revolutionary War was NOT started over a single tax on tea. Many, many factors contributed, and had been building pressure for decades. Had there been no naval impressment, I think it likely no one would've dared to try resisting the crown. Of course we'll never know that detail ...

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Ithrowawaay 6 points ago +6 / -0

Mainly, a group of intelligent and well armed individuals to carry it out.