What a pile, equating street criminals to the founding of our country.
Colonial thugs coming from an England that was going high-brow, outlawing slavery back in the 1500s, taking over land belonging to indigenous tribes that had been there for millennia.
Truth aināt always pleasant.
One of the least-meaningful analogies ever.
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Conquering people has been around for thousands of years, and Europeans didnāt invent it. Native Americans fought and conquered each other for thousands of years too. Donāt act like this is something that started a few hundred years ago when Europeans came to the Americas.
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England outlawed slavery in 1834 at home and colonies.
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They did it in stages. The first stage was to impose increasingly stiff penalties (taxes) on slave owners and traders. That started well before 1834.
Hence the events in North America in the 1600s and 1700s.
Hold my beerā¦Watch me!!!
some people seem to crave attention.Bad or good.
Why are we even discussing anything that happened 200-300 years before the horseless carriage was invented in 1803??
This is only to provoke an argumentā¦
@cdaquila
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Werenāt they Puritans? Thatās about as opposite to hooliganism I can think of. Unless you think the Amish are hooligans too.
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@ChrisTheTireWhisperer has an interesting perspective about American history, imo
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The horseless carriageā¦ really a steam truck was invented in 1769. There were steam carriages made in the US in the 1860s.
The first electric cars for sale in 1884 and Karl Benzās patent for an internal combustion engine powered car was 1885 and first offered for sale in 1886.
You kinda split the timelines! 
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Yew db, that happened after I removed the rose-colored glasses from my face.
Yeah, somehow I knew I was going to get bit in the a$$ on that one, quick google search and:
In 1803, what is said to have been the first horseless carriage was a steam-driven vehicle demonstrated in
