Comments by "Jim Luebke" (@jimluebke3869) on "History Summarized: The British Empire" video.

  1. The people that James sent to Ireland to "colonize" were the border reavers, who frequently made their living raiding across the border between Scotland and England. (The Scottish king James) shipped them off to Ireland so whatever trouble they habitually caused, wouldn't be trouble for a newly united Britain.
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  2. "Culminated somewhat tragically in the handover of Hong Kong" Oh, NOW you start complaining!
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  3. Britannia set on top of the rest of the world because they figured out a better way of doing things than the rest of the world. The rest of the world has been catching up, and living better lives for it.
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  4. John Cleese, sort of: "What have the British ever done for us?" Michael Palin, etc: "sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, a fresh water system, and public health, what have the British ever done for us?" Blue: "Irresponsibly left their Empire" Graham Chapman: "There's just no pleasing some people." Monty Python's Life of Brian: Even more subversive, iconoclastic, and heretical to the current crop of self-righteous moralists, than it was when it was first filmed!
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