British Colonialism In A Nutshell

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[@The5camille5]

Are we... international drug dealers? Absolutely killed me!!

[@BRITISHFURY_1664]

A-are we the bad guys???

[@avroarchitect1793]

I mean there was that one time in China.

[@angelbork1899]

​@@avroarchitect1793 *shushes you in british*

[@avroarchitect1793]

@@angelbork1899 don't shush me, that was a ton of fun.

[@angelbork1899]

@@avroarchitect1793 well my blimey good fellow those words of yours can compromise our lord ships standing as this information was quite and important and henceforth top secret.

[@JordanTheMann]

"Are we international drug dealers?" We call them pharmaceutical companies nowadays, good sir.

[@DavidMyrmidon]

👏👏👏😂

[@mikemcknight1104]

The doctors are the dealers, companies are the manufacturers.

[@AC-hj9tv]

Example?

[@solconcordia4315]

Red China: No, sir, we are the pharmaceutical factory to the world making fentanyl. We are the bioweapon factory to the world of SARS_CoV-2/CoViD-19. Marco Polo's country got the benefit of our Biowar-2020 factory product delivery at jet speed.

[@AC-hj9tv]

@@dafyddpowell1390 I'm just her to get high

[@kaylzshter6153]

"I pay my taxes, and soon so will you" is peak Britain

[@danielbugby4149]

I love how that wall is in East Oxfordshire or Buckinghamshire or around about there ish

[@anthonykaiser974]

Americans: Yeah NO! No we won't.

[@youtubesurfer134]

​@@anthonykaiser974damn you beat me to it.

[@netemv]

​@@anthonykaiser974instead we just tax ourselves into oblivion these days lol

[@dalehannah3705]

@@anthonykaiser974also Americans: I love paying 10000k to have a baby.

[@addictionsucks8848]

"Go home to your own country" "Why go back when I can bring it here?"

[@venomslayer9899]

* Cocking the pistol to the side * "Are we... international drug dealers?"

[@definitelynotstalin4306]

Jesse, we need to grow poppies

[@robertnett9793]

@@definitelynotstalin4306 British Breaking Bad just hits different...

[@danielwhyatt3278]

Oh Jesus Christ that was soo freaking brilliant.

[@jamesjesse9773]

​​@@robertnett9793"Squire, we need to cook."

[@chefboyardee2223]

I live in the splendid residence known to the British crown as Section 8. Me and my fellow rapscallions maintain colonies from which we trade various 'goods'. We have in our possession various rifles, pilfered galleons, mind rejuvenating elixirs, and only use British Pounds for business transactions.

[@BlahDBlahDBlah]

Probably the only drug cartel in history to pull a drive-by shooting with a fleet of warships...

[@tigershark7155]

Funny

[@bhavesh2232]

Even the Non muricans got the reference 😂😂

[@WingsxFreedom]

That's a swim-by

[@K_-_-_-_K]

Gun boat diplomacy Chad strategy

[@GabrieldeCastilla-lk2jr]

@@K_-_-_-_K let's talk in 10 years when the Chad be China.

[@GibGibson]

Ah yes, the most successful cartel in history...the royal military

[@lemoncurry351]

In the States, we call that international drug dealers “CIA agents”

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

The not so hidden truth

[@Nox_Mortis]

Why did he switch to gangsta fire when he said: “Are we… international drug dealers?” 😭

[@skullsaintdead]

That's the standard quizzical gun posturing, obviously!

[@SmokeymcJoint420]

You know why

[@esmeecampbell7396]

"At 100 yards....GANGSTA FIRE....present ARMS!" 😂

[@Sketch_girl15]

@@esmeecampbell7396AHHHHHHHH

[@vapaus831]

Opium has been known and grown in China centuries before the Dutch or English trade. Opium was considered as an herbal medicine, but it was not widely used. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, opium is not a drug at all but a sleeping pill and entertainment items. Moreover, the concept of drugs was not established at the beginning of the 19th century.

[@FormerGovernmentHuman]

Remember kids there wasn’t just one Opium war.

[@paireon3419]

@@ERH1453 My sibling in Azathoth in this war on drugs you'd be fighting on the side of the drugs.

[@ERH1453]

@@paireon3419 well, of course....they can't fight for themselves.

[@hphp31416]

​@@paireon3419only way to win

[@TALLI2]

that explains why they're called the opium wars

[@Sandwich13455]

​@@TALLI2there was 2?

[@hishamalaker491]

America: *War on drugs* Britian: *War for drugs* 🗿 edit: Guys this was supposed to be funny dont ruin the joke...

[@ThomasG.-hh9gg]

You can flip that script and it would be the truth

[@sparklemotion8377]

Different names doesn't mean different method Like torture and enhanced interrogation Or white supremacy and rule based order Democracy and colonialism

[@redmille1000]

America: Let the government fund the import and supply of drugs to our people so the lower classes can become addicted and die.

[@gormster]

Mum, can we have Mitchell and Webb? We have Mitchell and Webb at home.

[@chriswhite3692]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@mikecrimlis3366]

Poor man's M&W.

[@liamwartz]

The war of drugs.

[@KleinesStein]

The War on Drugs, but the British fought on the side with drugs

[@OhNotThat]

Back in the day the British actually found themselves on the right side in the War on Drugs. The Drugs side.

[@epicslayerguy99]

the actual title was "The Opium Wars", started by Britain to get china addicted to opium like china got britain addicted to tea. the british did the opium thing because china stopped selling them tea

[@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh]

The War for Drugs

[@fidjeenjanrjsnsfh]

​@@epicslayerguy99china didn't stop selling them tea, britain didn't have anything worthwhile to trade for tea so china demanded silver.

[@zarryis3365]

this skit has real black adder energy

[@tentathesane8032]

closer to Webb and Mitchell I think. It seems like a 1:1 parody of their "are we the bad guys" nazi skit

[@Ciara_Foxx]

​@@tentathesane8032It did REALLY feel like "Are we the baddies" at the end.

[@BigBadDon1893]

Like blackadder, but shit

[@joey.morris]

No where near blackadder

[@jacosteyn1061]

Yes, if Blackadder wasn't funny...

[@lordbeaverhistory]

Britain joined the war on drugs on the side of the drugs

[@countrykids6483]

"I pay my taxes and soon, so will you!" That's what I tell my children

[@rudobicon759]

Not just international drug dealers THE international drug dealer.

[@rudobicon759]

@vapaus2019 So you know history :) Then, you understand that opium from British India, which had no sales channels after the Opium War, So have no place to sell anymore, then sold to the lower class British as cheap as fxxx, and only then was opium banned. How can you not call a country that sells drugs in larger quantities than any other country at that time to THE international drug dealer? Of course, it was 'legal' back then, but times have changed. It's just like the British Empire in the past took relics from around the world for 'scientific' reasons, but doing the same thing today would be just theft. If you want to justify what happened in the past, make it can be justified in the present and watch the world burn. :)

[@rudobicon759]

@vapaus2019 And the reason of the Opium War started was because China banned opium. You know what they usually say about people armed with guns selling legally banned drugs, right?

[@quintusantell2912]

@@vapaus831 @rudibicon759 correct me if I'm wrong, but they were associating the British Museum of theft when they took cultural items from all over the world and since refuse to give items back (even to stable countries like Greece). The dealing of illegal d _ _ g s can have severe physiological consequences since its unregulated like most markets like food and medicine. Moreover, we can both understand the past and interpret it as history at the same time. Just because there were some technicalities which made the things considered moral in the past does not rob *us* from the ability to judge it as right or wrong. To do history right you have to do both of these things. Butterfield can go churn butter: *At the same time, Butterfield's early works emphasised the limits of a historian's moral conclusions, "If history can do anything it is to remind us that all our judgments are merely relative to time and circumstance".* Balderdash, I say! Butterfield mistakes good history-craft with good judgement. Typical modernist.

[@quintusantell2912]

@@vapaus831 why are you graverobbing these threads? I stopped responding months ago. We disagree. Get over it.

[@quintusantell2912]

@@vapaus831 sorry you don't have a life you need to pick arguments with strangers. I'm praying you find someone who can give you the attention you clearly didn't get as a child. Byeeeee

[@joelellis7035]

"Are we the baddies?"

[@itnotmeitu3896]

So bad that they ended ritualistic child and woman slaughter in India, ended ritualistic slaughter of pows in Austria and NZ, Forced the west Africans to end their slave trades and built those countries up providing infrastructure, the means to mine their own resources post independence, education systems and modern sewage (India excluded in the last point)

[@vincent_hall]

No

[@SergyMilitaryRankings]

​​@@vincent_hallyes, Britain, US and EU are part of the bad guys of the world

[@Mtrix3345]

Same energy

[@TheSUGA1202]

Yup

[@Zaire82]

"Are we international drug dealers?" _The alcohol and tobacco industries sweating profusely offscreen._

[@upijhaj]

FRIGGIN HILARIOUS! and true. LMMFAO !!! Had to comment, Thumbs-Up/Like, and Subscribe! -Much Love, From : TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA 🇨🇦 !!!

[@tankaddict9147]

Bro using a Mark IV revolver in the 19th century 💀

[@averagejoe8358]

Squire's graphics don't go that far in time, I'm afraid

[@wizardapprenticeIV]

ignoring him wearing his Full Dress tunic (without rank insignia) on foreign service also.

[@nobodyuknow4911]

I'm more off put by him waiving it around and using it as little more than a pointing tool >_

[@comedyTVforLife]

Im glad im not the only one bothered by it

[@jamesonjones4057]

Yeah that gun is way out of date

[@BigJay039]

The Opium War, so popular it had a sequel

[@user-vf4oh2iu2h]

That ain't right,I Love your sarcasm

[@PumpkinHoard]

Opium is known to be very moreish.

[@RoscoPColtrane17]

The Sassoons weren’t British, they were Jewish.

[@ajoajoajoaj]

​@@RoscoPColtrane17 And this anti-Semitic sleight of hand somehow magically absolves the British Empire of their complicity with the Sassoons. Bravo, old chap.

[@RoscoPColtrane17]

@@ajoajoajoaj If there is a “sleight of hand” as you phrase it, it would be Jewish not British. How do you answer for old and new Jewish ownership of the drug crisis?

[@Acesahn]

"Are we... international drug dealers??" "Well, not at the moment!"

[@vapaus831]

Opium was considered as an herbal medicine, but it was not widely used. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, opium is not a drug at all but a sleeping pill and entertainment items. Moreover, the concept of drugs was not established at the beginning of the 19th century.

[@vapaus831]

First, the definition of a drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. But what is happening is selling opium extract is legal in both UK and the Qing at that time. So your statement is untenable.

[@XXavierSin-XXs]

That has the same energy as, "Are we the bad guys?"

[@dm121984]

Yes, very much so; the sad part is the British empire wasn't even the worst bad guys - most expansive and widespread yes; worst, no - that... 'honour' ... goes to Belgium - yes, you always have to watch the quiet ones.

[@xolg3292]

​@dm121984 Tbf you can pin the real bad shit on Leopold II. But then again Belgium still were massive assholes about the whole thing (they killed the first Congolese President more or less out of spite)

[@AirsoftAviation]

@@dm121984 america rebuild japan and Europe after the war, they still help them

[@uteriel282]

@@AirsoftAviation america went to an isolationist japan, forced them to open their border under threat of war, forced japan to do what everyone else did (imperialist expansion), called them evil, fucked them up then threw money at them out of self interest and pretends like theyre the good guys. and people like you belive it when they say "we just want to help"...

[@petrbohacek]

Doesn't the belgians have french blood in them. It would explain a lot..

[@CrniWuk]

The British 200 years ago : This your country? Now it's our country. The British today : Go home to your country!

[@viniciusb8377]

200? You're being generous, 100 years ago they were still doing that.

[@Nonviableaccount]

It was bad then, it’s openly acknowledged as being bad now and most British people feel guilty about it, so why do people frame vengeance and eye for an eye as a positive? If a few thousand guys showed up and ran India (hundreds of millions of people) and that was called evil colonization, why is it NOT colonization when tens of millions of Indians reverse the flow and settle in England as corporate and government overlords and put themselves on a demographic track replace the local population in less than a century? Why is the first one decried by international public and the second lauded and celebrated? How can that be considered anything other than spiteful vengeance?

[@chadtheimpaler_]

@@Nonviableaccount - Completely agree, these lefties are mental. They destabilising our culture because of historical guilt. It literally makes zero sense.

[@exogaming3524]

@@Nonviableaccount because the Indians coming to your country aren’t looting it and are contributing to the economy, plus there are only 1.6 million Indians in the uk

[@Nonviableaccount]

@@exogaming3524 for now

[@theprancingprussian]

The first opium war was explained here, the second stated because Britain consumed too much tea to afford

[@vondantalingting]

Nah, its because the Qing reneged on the deal and thought they can beat a bunc of European empires who constantly war each other with sticks and swords(plus a few modernized guns, if they ever were in the right numbers) while an apocalyptic rebellion was taking place.

[@theprancingprussian]

@@vondantalingting pretty much, they had sticks, sticks with sharp points and sticks that the English stopped using 200 years prior

[@virtueofabsolution7641]

Would have never happened if not for the manipulation/instigation of the Sassoon family in both the tea and opium markets. The cost of tea in uk just _coincidentally_ happened to spike just when the Sassoon family and their cohorts were kicked out of selling opium in china. What a coincidence!

[@JacobAlabama-yh1mr]

so you're saying countries shouldn't try defend themselves when being forced to take completely manipulative and exploitive trade deals?

[@theprancingprussian]

@@JacobAlabama-yh1mr read the text again unless it is a translation you are reading

[@retaliaterguitar2]

Take my subscription, you two earned it 😂

[@woahhbro2906]

Man, this sort of foreign policy sounds very familiar to me as an American. Like father like son 😂

[@nexusinc.4367]

Asia said "no drugs" Europe said "war then"😂

[@vapaus831]

Opium was considered as an herbal medicine, but it was not widely used. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, opium is not a drug at all but a sleeping pill and entertainment items. Moreover, the concept of drugs was not established at the beginning of the 19th century.

[@nexusinc.4367]

@@vapaus831 what's funny because the Chinese recognized it as a drug but the British were like "nah"

[@vapaus831]

@@nexusinc.4367 After the "Opium War", Lin Zexu also advocated planting native opium in China to reduce the dependence on foreign opium.🤓

[@schizophrenicandroid]

Hey it's Bing! I haven't seen him since the last time he was in a TomSka video. Good short lol 😄

[@deathmetalchili6902]

Hahahahaha Subscribed!!!!!

[@vapaus831]

Who is not telling the whole truth.

[@rayshiffer5026]

Hmm, looks like shorts from squire are becoming regular.

[@sz9217]

“Are we the baddies?”

[@frankie._.4167]

🤭

[@vapaus831]

No, because the British brought the idea of democracy and freedom to us.

[@cat_city2009]

Yes.

[@vapaus831]

@@cat_city2009 I disagree with you (for my reason, you have to wait a while)

[@cat_city2009]

@@vapaus831 lmao I don't care tbh

[@Huskerguy316]

When Britain invaded more than half the world but declared war on a mustached man reclaiming a former tiny port city

[@vapaus831]

*Economy

[@ayodejiolowokere1076]

He occupied two-fifths of Poland along the USSR that occupied the rest. Shove that revisionist nonsense.

[@Cobr488]

....all while the battle of Rorke's Drift happening in the background...

[@skogen5357]

Always appreciate a brit that can take their country's wrong doings and put a dark comical spin on it

[@historiamilitaris5161]

Thanks to these "wrong doings" we have our present civilisation.

[@MISTERTR-rh9mg]

​@@historiamilitaris5161 yeah a racist divided, hateful, drug fuel, war like civilization

[@ninobrownish]

​@@historiamilitaris5161what present civilization? Always trying to put a spin on it 🤣🤣🤣.... Impudent hooligans!

[@Piqueblinders11]

that’s bullshit. 90% of the British population have no ancestors who left the country ever. British people are indigenous. Imagine thinking it’s okay to invade indigenous people in 2024….that must mean white people can colonise every Arab country then because of the Ottoman Empire invading Eastern Europe. Stupid logic

[@freneticness6927]

What inventions did your country come up with

[@andyandreson3989]

Some of this quick snips like that are hysterical.

[@EEEEEEEE]

‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎‎E

[@mariogaeta8911]

Brilliant. One of your best shorts 😂

[@sharjeelali1242]

Reflection is a great stride towards civility.

[@Random_Username001]

If anyone’s curious, there talking about the opium War, where China had strict laws in exportation, and the British had to pay with silver. That’s when they got an idea, they would import opium from India, in exchange for tea. The Chinese government didn’t allow it, and after the Chinese destroyed they’re supply, they went to war. I believe that’s actually how they got Hong Kong. 20 years later, it happened again

[@robertgebruers9519]

Good summary, but it should be said that the British East India Company exported the opium from India via Chinese smugglers - not technically “the British”. That Company was basically a huge trading company with its own massive private army dwarfing the British army. But the Company was given licence to operate by British government/crown so yeah “the British” did it but technically they didn’t 😂

[@Random_Username001]

@@robertgebruers9519 oh ok, I don’t know why I just put Britain and not the company

[@rjp3837]

Actually they were also smuggling opium in after it was OUTLAWED by the Emperor at the time because of how the British industrial production of what was once a folk remedy and painkiller curated a MASSIVE drug use epidemic to the point some were selling their OWN CHILDREN to get more.

[@TheNelster72]

Yeah, there was already demand for opium in China. You know how they love a medicinal plant or animal. So Britain facilitated its supply. Not exactly moral but they didn't originate the demand.

[@rjp3837]

@@TheNelster72 There's demand for medical grade painkillers doesn't mean the people putting them on the street aren't still doing AWFUL things. Because that is EXACTLY the case with Opium

[@mattgron6913]

are we the *international drug dealers*?

[@vapaus831]

Opium was considered as an herbal medicine, but it was not widely used. Moreover, in the eyes of the British, opium is not a drug at all but a sleeping pill and entertainment items. Moreover, the concept of drugs was not established at the beginning of the 19th century.

[@C.J.Traylor]

God damn British humor.......still strikes a chuckle

[@jimvac77]

British colonialism brought civilization to the world. It helped end the slave trade. It was a good thing. The British Empire is something to be proud of, not mocked.

[@amouritss]

No

[@jimvac77]

@@amouritss much of the world would still be living in thatched huts if not for colonialism.

[@SpaceMonkeyBoi]

Britain: "Hello, dear aboriginal. I hear your people have spices..." US: "I smell oil..." Britain: "They grow up so fast... 😢"

[@joelellis7035]

Ruzzia: we're here to liberate the Russian-speaking people in your nation!

[@Mourtzouphlos240]

"You! I learned it from you!"

[@SebAnders]

"Are we...the baddies Hans?"

[@vapaus831]

Hans?

[@SebAnders]

@@vapaus831 kzbin.info/www/bejne/l3ecfYNjbtp6lc0si=xhhi7UwdYZexue5q

[@420Fanatic]

Great sketch; I really enjoyed it. I pay my taxes and soon, so will you.

[@radomirratkovic9014]

Herbal remedy😂😂😂😂

[@kakapokid1796]

The opium wars were the cheekiest hustle going lol

[@jamesharding3459]

The "just here to work" bit was quite cutting, and I for one thought it was absolutely delightful!

[@searcherholic3473]

Good moral equivalence. Well done. People arriving on boats today are given the same treatment. Only they're not colonisers. Well done

[@joshuagoldman1916]

Queen Victoria was the OG Pablo Escobar before his great grandfather was born.

[@swampdonkey1567]

Hey, tea is addictive as well.

[@Jmatthaeus184]

Ima sub

[@KevinSmith-yh6tl]

teopro2000: IMA ITALIANO ON MY MOTHERS SIDE.

[@eacalvert]

How did I only just now find this channel I'm in love

[@user-fw5pk5qp3q]

Ok... Now that is accurate 😂😂😂😂

[@imperialg.s6453]

What a coincedence Today India celebrates its Independence day from Britain

[@dwightd.eisenhower2031]

You guys deserve it, every country in the world should have a chance to break free from the Brits just to get an Independence Day

[@davidfarrer4332]

Britain, the biggest supplier of Independance Days to the world. You`re welcome! :)

[@PeanutImperium]

It’s talking about China what does India have to do with this?

[@averagejoe8358]

​@@dwightd.eisenhower2031Hey, we have an independence day. From the Romans, I guess.

[@merlynjep]

Just about every day is some country's Independence From Britain Day.

[@makukawakami]

Queen Vickie the OG plug

[@virtueofabsolution7641]

Funny enough her supplier was the Sassoon family- yes, the same ones who make shampoo today.

[@gypsyluck1494]

Watch black adder, I love the direction you are going with this, Rowan Atkinson is the star of the show before his mister bean. Basically he goes through the ages from the mediaeval to World War I and just points out the hypocrisy in these small episodes they are actually really good, but keep up the great work

[@jwilliams3170]

I love that the background sound effects are the gunshot sounds from Zulu

[@Abdullah-tu9vg]

¨Are we the baddies?¨

[@vapaus831]

No, because the British brought the idea of democracy and freedom to us.

[@quintusantell2912]

Yes, and you can see all the trophies from that drug dealing in the British Museum.

[@vapaus831]

First, the definition of a drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. But what is happening is selling opium extract is legal in both UK and the Qing at that time. So your statement is untenable.

[@quintusantell2912]

@@vapaus831 "The First Opium War was fought from 1839 to 1842 between China and Britain. It was triggered by the Chinese government's campaign to enforce its prohibition of opium, which included destroying opium stocks owned by British merchants and the British East India Company." first sentence of wikipedia. Try again... Edit: the second half of that paragraph completely contradicting you and my face like whaaaat?? "The British government responded by sending a naval expedition to force the Chinese government to pay reparations and allow the opium trade. [1] The Second Opium War was waged by Britain and France against China from 1856 to 1860. It resulted in the legalisation of opium in China. [2]"

[@vapaus831]

@@quintusantell2912 the reason of starting first anglo-Chinese war is the extraterritorial issues after the incident with British and American sailors killing Lin Weixi.

[@vapaus831]

@@quintusantell2912 On 7 July, seamen from the Carnatic and Mangalore, both owned by Jardine, Matheson & Co., landed in Kowloon where they were joined by colleagues from other British and American ships. After a group of sailors consumed the rice liquor known as samshu, an innocent local named Lin Weixi (林維喜, Cantonese: Lam Wai-hei) in the village of Tsim Sha Tsui was beaten in a brawl by these drunken sailors and died the next day.[1][2][3] Wiki:Battle of Kowloon Background.

[@vapaus831]

@@quintusantell2912 In 1729, Yongzheng ordered a ban on smoking, but what was banned was the mixture of tobacco and opium - what we commonly call "Madak", not the opium itself. Opium imports are still used as medicinal materials.

[@stephenbrookes7268]

Empires were the brainchild of the elite.

[@watermoccasin882]

In a 'nusthell' 😂😂😂😂😂

[@cereliafeiyin2560]

Now do a comedy skit on the British empires effect on slavery, or how we wanted to hand the Indians for burning women alive.

[@uhura647]

The typical " sati abolition " excuse to justify colonization. Read about Rani Rashmoni of Bengal, Rani Ahilya bai holkar, Rani Velu Nachiyar who were influential and powerful women inspite of being widows . Rani Ahilya Bai was even prevented from committing sati by her father in law and she was later appointed the ruler and ruled for several years .The practice of Sati existed but it was not the epidemic that you claim it to be . Also how many women were actually rescued and rehabilitated by the British? How many shelter houses were built for them ? How much money was spent on arranging food ,clothing, shelter etc for the " thousands of rescued widows " ? You have any data ?

[@NateB]

That sounds racist!!!

[@FuckEverythingRn]

As a chinese person, I felt that

[@qfcbv]

same bruh

[@asinine4636]

and now you are doing with same with Fentanyl, stop playing victim, every country/person/nation has done shady shit

[@damselnoir5905]

so...um...you want to trade some raw silk for a bit of raw opium?

[@martinalexander2042]

As a british person, i would like to.offer you some opium to soothe your blues

[@FuckEverythingRn]

@@damselnoir5905 Sure! Then I can burn it.

[@Callsign_Prophet]

Everybody missing the joke at the start

[@cheyennereynoso4116]

I don’t subscribe often on a short but I did lol. Good job 😆

[@mm3mm3]

It’s great to see another video! Pure comedy gold 😊😊😊

[@vapaus831]

First, the definition of a drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. But what is happening is selling opium extract is legal in both UK and the Qing at that time. So your statement is untenable.

[@phildraper6067]

"As I was bayoneting him", a remarkably eloquent fellow I would imagine normally what he would be saying would be you bastard or just urrrrrgh

[@benjamin112]

Cracking lads. Keep it up!!

[@vapaus831]

First, the definition of a drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. But what is happening is selling opium extract is legal in both UK and the Qing at that time. So your statement is untenable.

[@SoldierofKreig]

The muzzle awareness is killing me

[@DarthSmall352]

Squire's videos are always amusing.

[@tisFrancesfault]

Fun fact, In over seas "adventures" Scots, and Irish were key to imperial and private enterprise. This is often ignored by nationalists (scots and Irish) and perpetuate a sense of victimhood regarding the British empire as apposed to be prominent and very active perpetrators. They're like Austrians very involved in the shady stuff, but conveniently, after the fact poor victims...

[@wizardapprenticeIV]

that doesn't negate victimhood, some Indians fought for the British (willingly or not), as did African fight for the British, though no one is arguing that India and Africa where not victimised by the English. Some Scot putting on a red coat doesn't undo Glencoe, or the children being beaten for speaking Gaidhlig.

[@tisFrancesfault]

@@wizardapprenticeIV Glencoe was a Scottish action against Scots. A unified British government had yet to exist. The Scottish government only merged with England decades later with the explicit requirement of access to English colonies. Also it's a two way street, if, for example you're Irish it's hard to complain about colonialism and having land stolen etc, when the Irish were very active In the very same actions at the same time. The argument that Irish folk were subject to economic conditions that effectively demanded such. But that argument is also silly as that applies to England and Scots too.

[@Pantsinabucket]

@@tisFrancesfaultdon’t forget the Irish’s own brutal history of pillaging the fuck out of western Britain from the 4th-9th centuries, particularly scotland and wales. Hell, Scotland is even named after a tribe of Irish raiders/colonizers. And Scottish Gaelic is a colonizer’s language largely brought over from Ireland during this period.

[@voivod6871]

One of the main reasons for the act of union was that Scotland were practically bankrupt because their own attempts at empire building ended in a financial disaster. Fact of the matter is everyone else in a position of power tried to build empires it’s just that in this period of history the British were the best at it.

[@asspills]

Participating, yes but not really benefitting. As a people. The Irish didn't get new lands or spoils. They got more brits taking up more of their own land, taking more resources using the extra money they were making off their overseas investments

[@foxman1546]

Drugs weren't illegal then. China would only sell Britain tea for silver. So we created a new market 😊. Eventually we managed to acquire tea plants ourselves.

[@user-qt6qn4kt5t]

left guy sounded like firing squad leader on blackadder lmao

[@pilotcooper9265]

I'm going to Bovington today 😊😊

[@jimmygerano7163]

Black Adder vibes and I'm all for it

[@RJ-wx3fh]

A nice twist on 'are we the baddies?'

[@dashfatbastard]

Outstanding, gentleman...Inhave subbed. Great fun...truly top hole!

[@ExosLife]

I love how the British burned the world down in search of spices, and they continue to eat beans and sausages with no spices.

[@sciencesofaheretek6973]

Spices are a cope for shit food and i will always stand by this statement 😂 Mostly a joke...Mostly.

[@benkeeley7612]

I love how people like you keep repeating this joke as if it has any truth to it. "In search of spices" 😂

[@ExosLife]

@@benkeeley7612 what is a better joke that sums up the British experience of taking over the world and still eating pretty basic food. Like mushy peas.

[@ArnieS1947]

You don't know what you're talking about. That's like saying black people basically all eat fried chicken.

[@night_knightC2]

@@ArnieS1947fried chicken is good though beans on toast is what you eat if you have no money

[@piperjj4486]

I ended up unscubing because of this, nut shelling complicated history is unprofessional.

[@NateB]

So is most comedy

[@jameswallace9906]

Wow that sounds so familiar to what's happening today.

[@jayjayn007]

Just the point I raised! So fast to lecture, but they can't practice what they preach!

[@TachyonKing]

Damn those gunshot sound effects from Zulu just hit different

[@42ckev]

This reminds me of the Mitchell and Webb scene where they're the Nazis and say "are we the bad guys?" 😂 So true

[@bartsanders1553]

More accurate: Excuse me, I say, you'll be letting those slaves off now.

[@kyleheins]

Depends on the country, and war. Opium wars and Zulu wars were not related to slavery.

[@TheNelster72]

Britain was the first country to abolish slavery, did it democratically and then policed the West African seas at risk of disease to police it. Britain also pressured states employing slavery to stop doing so.

[@eternalcanadiandevyt]

​@TheNelster72 This can be disproved in 3 seconds by googling it. As far as the historical record goes, the first nation was Japan, who outlawed it in the 1500s. Next was Haiti, who revolted and freedom themselves before the British abolition of slavery in the 1830's.

[@barrazoot1777]

@@eternalcanadiandevytI think the poster meant the African slave trade. The first country was actually Denmark. Britain however did police the seas and force a number of countries into abolishing their own slave trade.

[@eternalcanadiandevyt]

@@barrazoot1777 Even so, Haiti still abolished African Slavery first, and the British West Africa Squadron did almost nothing to stop slavery.

[@aragillium88]

Quite a revelation 'ol chap.

[@lil_jackgamez8992]

😂 I don't know why but that "are we international drug dealers" gives off the same vibe has "are we the baddies"😂

[@vapaus831]

When the british sold opium in china they were not selling a drug they believed to be harmful dangerous or even necessarily addictive, instead they were selling a compound they used themselves.

[@vapaus831]

A mischaracterization. There was a cartel-like structure of opium grown by British merchants in India and sold to China, but this was largely private enterprise and does not characterize the entire empire. The British government was not using its empire as an international drug cartel, selling drugs to all its colonies.

[@R0Y4LJHYyt]

I bought a pickelhaube, the spike broke within 2 hours of receiving it cos it was hollow 😭😭😭

[@Optimusprimerib36]

It might’ve been opium. Hahaha

[@zurielsss]

The Chinese actually love British opium, it’s the imperial Chinese government who didn’t like it. Being from Hong Kong, we love British colonisation

[@andrewtamo3814]

white larpers are disgustin lmao

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Ironically, the British went to China to sell them other things legitimately but the Chinese were hilariously racist to everyone. It turns out when your top dog for so long you can sail around with massive treasure ships expecting people to give you things for free for the privilege to trade with you, it creates quite the superiority complex. And then the British happened.

[@beastshawnee]

That’s how the British took America. “Look ere now-You aren’t using that River are you? Why don’t you Pop on over to Oklahoma, then? Be a nice Redman Chap for us! Yeah! GO ON! Get off OUR LAND! Can’t you SEE we put a flag here?! Look Look! We even wrote up some treaty rights for you! Take these beads! Here’s some Blankets that pox-ridden family don’t need anymore. GO ON! Take them!

[@zigongosaurus5274]

China: We are destine to rule over all of those barbarians! Britain: Yall hear smth

[@oo-xb6gv]

HUH? Are you fr💀💀💀🤡 crazy how your trying to justify forcibly selling fucking opium to a country bruh 💀💀💀

[@dm121984]

China: "flithy barbarians want to trade with us, as if they had anything we'd want" British: "have you tried opium? The first try is free" Chinese citizens and emperors: "..... drugs you say?" China: "Hey, stop pedalling to our people" British warships: "LOL, no"

[@jozopako]

Constantly aiming that revolver at his friend...

[@justiceofskitzerland6429]

Braking Britain, is a show i need. Come on Jameson its time to kooc

[@stevencarroll8315]

Sir, the natives are revolting!!! Yes, they don’t bathe often, what!!!

[@vapaus831]

First, the definition of a drug dealer is a person who sells illegal drugs. But what is happening is selling opium extract is legal in both UK and the Qing at that time. So his statement is untenable.

[@fredsifyable]

No. You are silver dealers. China would only sell stuff for silver. The British had no silver. But the Chinese population would buy only one thing with silver, and that was opium. Had the Chinese not been so arrogant and found a common ground where trade could be done in something the British had plenty of, this would never have happened. I hate this old stereotypical misunderstanding of what actually happened.

[@pauligrossinoz]

_"but the Chinese population would only buy one thing with silver, and that was opium."_ *You are a liar. And I hate liars.*

[@venmis137]

International drug dealers is funny though. Also "NOOOOO, YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO HAVE A NON-NEGATIVE VIEW OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE!!"

[@fredsifyable]

@@venmis137 I'm sure the british did it's fair share of conquest - but this old wives tail of FORCING OPIUM onto the chinese is regurgitated without any context or any form of understanding. The chinese culture is arrogant as fuck when it comes to self preservation, pretty much everything originates from the country so I guess thats understandable. But the same asshats that shout at the top of their lungs "US BAD DOWN WITH USA" would be the same cunts screaming down with china sell them opium back then simply to kick the defacto top dog in it's teeth.

[@michaelflynn4241]

As an African Colonialism was a good thing, that is all

[@gdok6088]

Oh how terribly, terribly funny chaps!!

[@davidcooks2379]

Great times... When we were the invaders, not the invaded

[@rahjah6958]

If only we stayed there, they would be full fledged working country’s by now

[@morbid747]

Yes , we would have worked and taxed them to death plus the free load of all their natural resources. Life musf be good.

[@rahjah6958]

@@morbid747 looove me some life without burning women alive and raping them because they looked at somone once

[@dqdq4083]

He just described what Mexico is doing to the US

[@vinylmodsmanitoba]

A taste of their own medicine i see

[@lessonslearned2569]

Not really.

[@GuineaPigEveryday]

the only reason Mexican gangs were able to amass so much power is because gun laws are super lax in the US and easily shipped over, plus Mexican cartels only make so much money becuz u dipshits use so many drugs. Plus American destabilisation of Mexico has been going on for decades.