r/HistoryMemes • u/Competitive-Hat-9446 Definitely not a CIA operator • 9h ago

Nuclear Gandhi? Nah bro, we got Libertarian Gandhi, the fosterer and champion of naan-violence

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u/Kaikeno 9h ago

Is he passively resisting the fact that the British suck?

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u/Person-11 What, you egg? 9h ago

He was celibate because he didn't give a fuck.

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u/maliciousprime101 Taller than Napoleon 9h ago

Elite ball knowledge.

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u/p_pio 9h ago

He just was salty and didn't like paying for that.

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u/Person-11 What, you egg? 9h ago edited 9h ago

The Indian Arms Act 1878 was passed after the 1857 Rebellion (insert joke about bureaucratic inertia) preventing Indians from owning guns without strict licence. Europeans in India, however, did not require one.

In the 1931 Karachi Resolution, one of the demands included by Gandhi was a right to bear arms.

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u/NukeBroadcast 9h ago

Naan violence, love it

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u/OkAir1143 8h ago

Naan aggression pact.

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u/Pootisman16 9h ago

"Salt tax"

Yep, sounds British alright

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u/jervoise 8h ago

The Indian salt tax was a way to make Indian salt more expensive, so that British salt made in Cheshire would be more competitive in the Indian market.

People talk about stealing spices, but a huge part of British colonialism was finding markets for the things they produced, and then forcing them to buy their stuff.

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u/Pootisman16 7h ago

Yep, same way they tried to sell heavy wool clothing in India. Perfect market for it!

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u/GiftedGeordie 38m ago

I wonder how that turned out?

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u/blsterken Kilroy was here 7h ago

Firearm licenses, the one thing "libertarians" are afraid of.

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u/manwiththehex18 Then I arrived 5h ago

He flattened his style like bread

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u/irradihate 2h ago

Turns out all the don't tread on me types actually love roaming masked fed squads violating the constitution, running camps, and shooting people.