Big fucking difference between saying you want to throw some tea into a harbor vs inciting that hotels containing asylum seekers should be burnt down.

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enedil 7 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That's charitable to say that nobody was saying anything except for "let's drown that tea".

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monkey_monkey 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Weird that you think it was legal for people to say "kill the king" back then.

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UpsideDownRide 6 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Diffrence being state did not have control to stop disgruntled people from organizing. And it might be that preventing such formations is actually detrimental long run.

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someonebaggy 5 hours ago | parent [-]

The state did everything they could to prevent it back then, just as they do right now.

	▲	iamnothere 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Using this line of argumentation, you might as well start enslaving (sorry, “impressing”) people into your navy again.
	▲	cucumber3732842 5 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		Everything they could was a lot less back before the fruits of industrial productivity allowed people to have their basic needs met while giving a huge fraction of their surplus to the state to do what it pleases with.

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Catloafdev 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Buddy you aren't addressing the comments that are replying to you.

You gotta stay on-topic. You keep coming up with random things to compare to that make no sense to anybody but you. Who said it was legal to say "kill the king"?

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djha-skin 6 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I mean, in terms of property damage, the Boston Tea Party was a pretty big deal. Probably in arson territory in today's dollars.