It's complicated. They removed all taxation that would have benefitted the the colonies, but kept the Townshend Act taxes in place.
The colonies had been evading the Townshend taxes, largely because they were understood to be punitive. That's the primary reason tea had been smuggled from The Netherlands, as resistance to what was viewed as unjust taxation.
You left out a bit. We also fought the British, and the Confederacy, and the Spanish, and the Kaiser, and the Nazis, and Imperial Japan.
America's history is complicated, and full of atrocities, like the history of nearly every major nation.
The values he's referring to in the comic are the core principles espoused in the founding documents. The idea of one nation with liberty and justice for all. At no point in history have those ideas been fully realized, but striving to meet those ideals is what America means to the Captain, not some borders on a map or colors on a flag.
With math you can try, but I bet that in the future they laugh at the half-assed schemes and algorithms amassed to enforce cryptographs in the past.
UK is MPH
Are you talking about medically delaying puberty? You're aware that's done with cis kids more often than trans kids, right?
I don't see how it's child abuse when prescribed to a minor with gender dysphoria, but totally fine when it's a minor with precocious puberty.
For many trans people, having the option to postpone irrevocable changes brought on by puberty has massive mental health benefits for the rest of their lives. I feel like you have to be pretty jaded and dismissive to just categorize that as abuse out of hand.
There are currently no democratic politicians worse than trump, so it didn't really need to be specified.
I thought they gave a pretty good rebuttal in regards to the singular 'they'. Just because they mentioned a fallacy in the begging doesn't mean it's an argument from fallacy.
Unless you're talking fruit flies, you actually catch more of those with vinegar. They love the stuff.
They aren't native to all of North America. Here in the Pacific Northwest they're an invasive species that ate all the native turtles to extinction. That said, I do think they're cute. At least they're helping us fight tick infestations.
Serve it with a side of jelly beans (raw)