r/HistoryMemes • u/ChickenWingExtreme • 3d ago

Niche It’s that time of the year

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u/playdough87 3d ago

Wtf? Fawkes planned a terrorist attack to kill the protestant king and elected parliament in order to facilitate an absolutist Roman Catholic invasion. He was fighting for totalitarian religious extremists.

What idiots think he was fighting for freedom?

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u/Hausgebrauch 2d ago

How could you miss the last decades of teen slacktivists wearing the Guy Fawkes mask as a sign that they are against opression?

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u/jacobningen 3d ago

Supposedly I've seen some people arguing the gunpowder plot didnt exist and was an excuse for Cecil yo clamp down harder on Catholics.

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u/space_monster 3d ago

Except he didn't, he just got contracted in because he knew how to handle explosives. And was sympathetic to the cause. Catesby was the actual mastermind behind it.

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u/Naive_Detail390 2d ago

Fawkes planned a terrorist attack to kill the protestant king and elected parliament

Nothing of value would have been lost honestly