Is tea what made the British empire possible? Not by drinking it, but by dumbing down the masses with it and getting them addicted to it. The East India Company was a major factor in the rise of the empire, and one of their main commodities was tea. 10% of the population made the other 90% dumb, lazy, able to work longer hours, and willing to pay for their enslavement too because it felt good, both the slave class domestically and subjugated countries. Same thing as the opium which they pushed on the Chinese to enslave them. Then this empire expanded to America and coffee. That's why we are marching toward the New World Order, Rothschilds pushing coffee down your throat and then eating you like you're their foie gras geese.

>>507950701 (OP)
Are you the philosopher anon

>>507950937
I don't know

>>507950937
Are you referring to this thread? >>507833602
If so, that was my thread, well done Sherlock.

>>507950701 (OP)
Tea was a factor but not a means to an end. They pushed opium on China because of a general trade deficit. The aim was to dominate all global trade. One conspiracy theory is that they only banned slavery throughout the empire to hurt the Spanish coffers, rather than any moral reason.

>>507951489
What's so interesting about The East India company is that it's basically the beginning of corporations. Either the power gained from the trade was used to influence government, or the government used the trade as a power tool. And you don't know which it is, or if it's both. Same thing that was going on later with The United Fruit Company. The official story is usually that it's the latter. Maybe there is a third entity controlling both, the banks, the royals or something.

The English perfected tea. Tea is disgusting without milk in it. The orient can't recover from this fact.

>>507951489
Also why are you just regurgitating what you've been taught rather than entertaining the hypothesis, boring.

youtu.be/BhIIPbO_6xg

>>507952325
deep stuff

bump

>>507950701 (OP)
No, the British only became tea drinkers late onto their empire and only because all their coffee plantations on Ceylon got wiped out by blight and they had to switch crop

>>507954396
as though coffee is different, it's the caffeine I'm talking about

>>507950701 (OP)
Mormons go away

>>507950701 (OP)
>their foie gras geese
You should expand your unethically opulent food metaphor reference library.

Singapore police was founded by money collected from opium and gambling, always makes you think about the modern drug trade.

>>507950701 (OP)
British empire was possible because they were good sailors, given their island geography. They just sailed to places that didn't have guns yet and conquered them. When those places got guns they btfo the British, every single one.

>>507950701 (OP)
Tea was a help but it wasnt about tea itself it was about selling it like anon said here >>507951489 it was a matter of trade power
In general the reason the British empire was much more successful than their European rivals was a matter of economics
They behaved with the ultimate goal of enrichment and benefit
They went to Asia not because they wanted their spices but because they wanted to sell said spices at exorbitant prices to the rest of Europe by monopolizing the market
Friedrich List makes a fine historical argument explaining this

>>507954802
>we corrupt in order to rule
t. Italian Freemason Giuseppe Mazzini

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tenderloin,_Manhattan

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_S._Williams

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Comstock

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tammany_Hall

By the way Norway and Iceland legalized alcohol after wine-producing countries pressured them to it. In America you had trains raided because Amtrak wanted to serve alcohol on trains passing through so-called dry states.

>>507955186
>about selling it
I mentioned addiction

>>507955186
Also you are the same as the other guy, just regurgitating what you read, rather than entertaining the hypothesis I presented. Sometimes I think you can't be philosophical without being conspiratorially inclined.

Remember, if you are speaking the language of my ancestors you should be doing it with a spirit of humility and gratitude.

Your ability to read this post hereby binds you.

>>507954576
It was a luxury good that the ruling class consumed more than anyone so your argument doesn't make much sense

Everyone in India drinks tea atleast twice a day. And that's horrible.

>>507950701 (OP)
>caffeine makes you retarded
That's an interesting take.

>>507954963
>When those places got guns they btfo the British, every single one
Literally not a single one.

Tea actually has huge quantities of fluoride.

Let me guess, you think the VOC was worth 8 trillion buckeroos? Britain bought 32 000 kilotonnes of tea from China in 1959. A modern containership could carry 10 times that weight.
It was a sideshow for the UK.

>>507955906
>without being conspiratorially inclined
paranoid schizophrenic.

>>507955680
>>507955906
You’re arguing that the reason the British Empire was successful was because they used Tea to dumb down their own population to industrialize
Yet you fail to conceptualize that by the time mass industrialization was we truly know it was occurring the Pax Britanica had already been established
Ever industrialized country dealt with exploitative working wages during early industrialization
What im telling you is that the commodities that British controlled were mainly used not for self consumption but to sell further into the market and enrich themselves more
They hoarded coin not physical goods

If you want to consider an empire that took resources directly for consumption look at the spanish and compare them to the brits

Tea and coffee improve brain function.

>>507954396
>the British only became tea drinkers late onto their empire
The English tea drinking habit began in the late 1600's, introduced by Catherine of Braganza, sister of the Portuguese King and wife of Charles II, married to solidify the English alliance with the recently independent Portugal against Spain. That's when the nobility started to drink a lot of tea, imitating their Queen.

>>507957710
there's a fine line between creativity and madness

>>507950701 (OP)
>Is tea what made the British empire possible?
No, you moronic nigger. Opium was.

>>507957781
I mentioned subjugated countries

>>507957802
they certainly don't, drink enough of it you can't think, also instantly kills your meditation

>>507958692
you sound like a tea drinker

>>507950701 (OP)
these things normalize drinking opened fluids from public places, so basically, allowing the populace to get drugged. caffeine in them is addictive and they are not healthy or neutral, there are irritants in them, too many tannins and acids. it's old goyslop though so nobody calls it out.

>>507958692
You're both wrong, it was just coal, iron, and the ability to turn them into power and steel.

>>507950701 (OP)
Caffeine doesn’t make you dumb you stupid idiot. It’s a stimulant. Alcohol makes you stupid because it’s a depressant. It literally depresses brain activity

>>507950701 (OP)
Are you retards seriously against tea now? One of the healthiest things you can drink on the planet? Kys

>>507958873

This is a well documented scientific fact.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-93849-7

Christian and Muslim monks also have used it historically as an aid in prayer and meditation.

As usual, you are just making up nonsenae out of thin air.

>>507950701 (OP)
Fuck timmy gon do?

>>507959166

>As usual, you are just making up nonsense* out of thin air.

So much of this board is complete nonsense pushed and bumped by bots, shills, and fools.

Feel like I am wasting my life engaging with it. I will make an effort today to just log off after Fajr and focus all day.

>>507951379
Sauce on that british space sitcom?

>>507959005
nah, drink 4 cups of coffee within hours and you're gonna feel pretty dumb

>>507959585
This is why all Swedes in Finland should be forced to go back. They're low IQ and unable to handle coffee like you. A high IQ person can handle 4 cups easily.

>>507959585
Tea has a fraction of the caffeine coffee does. Green tea even less and got L-theanine which helps GABA and calms you down

>>507959166
>Christian and Muslim monks also have used it historically as an aid in prayer and meditation.
Total bullshit.
>As usual, you are just making up nonsenae out of thin air.
Nope. I used to meditate daily. Got good at it. I got into deep meditation in like 5 minutes. Then I started drinking coffee and tea again. The meditation turned to shit within days. After about a week I gave up. Haven't gone back to meditating because I haven't had any period without caffeine since then. In fact I increased my caffeine and sugar when I quit snus. Now I can feel it in my heart and ears, I need to cut down or quit. My hands and feet shake with the heartbeat too.

I dunno, but we may never have had Hitler if it weren't for coffeehouses (both to initially radicalize him via contact with jewish activists, and later to attune and spread his message)

>>507959166
>muh science
wow, funded by the coffee lobby

>>507959174
Wipe the asshole of the world aka nuke india and be done with you shitbags once and for all ranjeet

You sound like a 14 year old boy who just drank coffee or tea for the first time, didn't like the bitter taste, and just now writing some cope diatribe against caffeinated breakfast drinks.

Lol.. How old a fella are ya, Junior?

>>507959574

https://youtu.be/h73PsFKtIck

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_Star_(film)

>>507959352
Don't let the door hit your ass on the way out.

tard

>>507959977
This “coffee makes you dumb” is literally one of the dumbest thing I’ve seen on this board in a while. Show me a smart guy doesn’t pound cups of coffee. Doctors drink coffee like water

>>507959585
4 cups is way beyond what anyone needs that shit will burn your brain out ive been there. Stopping caffine intake helps the brain to recover from that sort of abuse

>>507950701 (OP)
tea is also the most flouride rich thing you can consume

I understand their love for spices, but why tea? It doesn't really give you a buzz

>>507960886

It gives you all the hygge of a hot cup o joe, without all that alarming, and frankly dangerous, stimulation

>>507960671
Wow 2mg per liter in black tea. That's a shitload actually. I wonder if this is why whites in the UK haven't gone postal with the muslims yet.

>>507960172
>Show me a smart guy doesn’t pound cups of coffee. Doctors drink coffee like water
Peak NPC opinion.

>>507952325
True, although the tea in the OP pic has too much milk.

>>507961315
>stimulation
You tit! You made my soil my trousers!

>>507951379
>Can't prove that the past exists
I can prove empirically that causality leads, when traced backwards, to outcomes that are concurrent with what already happened.

>>507950701 (OP)
Boiling fluoride activates it and allows it to chemically react with the oils in tea, which then makes it 10x more potent in causing brain damage.

>>507961519
Does the fluoride really come from the leaves or from the water used to make the tea.

>>507959585
A strong cup has around 150 mg of caffeine. The max healthy daily amount is 400 mg. Obviously you will be retarded if you over consume.

>>507962201
It's the leaves of the tea. It takes up fluoride, which is a sedative. Prozac is based on fluoride.

>>507954396
>>507952438
>>507955186
>>507951489
Are there any books which describe the inner workings of East India company you know strategies, inner politics, revenge amongst board members etc. The books I know are either slops written by indiain nationalists bashing EIC or British apologists. I want something much more interesting and informative.

>>507950701 (OP)
They were equal opportunity sellers. Whatever they had to sell, was sold. Opium was mixed with just about everything, in London, everywhere. The world's first patent medicine mix, something used to survive cholera, was pushed as a cure all for everything to everyone. Sell, sell, sell baby!
Modern tea, coffee, and all the drinks sold with caffeine mixed in don't do much of anything for your health. In moderation they're not a detriment either. But, we all know people today don't just drink a cup or two of tea per day. It's a good idea to strive for eliminating all caffeine from your diet just to see how pervasive it is. You will live just fine without it and save some money.

tea contains fluoride

The more people work and labour the more they require junk food in order to sustain it. It's pretty obvious. Time spent working goes up, time remaining to prepare proper nutrition goes down, impulse control is exhausted by all day using it not to walk out of your job, so when slop is offered to you after work you're too mentally drained to decline it.

People will say "it's a choice to be fat" but at the end of the day when over half your population is fat it's more the norm than the exception for the average human being to be susceptible to this.

The entire food industry is one giant scam to keep giving employees the "quick energy" they need to keep doing their enslavement. From burger to coffee to instant noodles, the entire thing is a necessary evil without which half the workforce of the country would simply be unable to endure their working conditions. Yes those Red Bulls literally are the crutch that makes it possible for the vast majority.

>>507950701 (OP)
Tea is not exactly heroine, mate. You’re making a lot of fuss out of a mildly caffeinated drink.

>>507958873
Tea doesn’t stop you from thinking. What sort of crack are you smoking cunt. It’s a mild herbal drink faggot.

>>507950701 (OP)
>is tea what made the British Empire possible?
No.
It's an excuse, not a cause for the empire.
The cause was the need from the forces behind the Rothschilds and the de Medici to establish a global hegemony.
They needed an empire in order to back their private companies (VOC and East India Company) in business ventures that were gonna go sour for the local population.
Tea supply made the British population dependent on the trade company, as did coffee supply.
Bringing opium to the Chinese people and enforcing it through war was another effort to make people dependent on the private trading companies and the people behind them.
The same families and their own handlers had to wait a while for a global power to be proficient enough to go conquer Japan, since it was impossible for the trade companies to stretch their military influence that far in the 16th century since they didn't exist yet. 1851, the Americans show up and bombard Tokyo to force the Emperor to open up trade and revoke isolationism. They did that knowing full well it would cause a civil war down the road. They were hoping for that.

The primary objective for the trade companies was to establish dependency and to exploit people in order to achieve it.
A free man, i.e. someone who's sovereign, isn't dependent on a private company of satanic pedophiles.
The dependency gives them power over you, and they can do whatever they want when you're dependent on them.

>>507963866
You got something for >>507962743?

>>507954576
It's not the caffeine that made the difference. It's the boiling of the water. Our soldiers did not suffer from dysentery like the French because we boiled all our drinks.
Which works for both tea & coffee

>>507958997
No, you mongoloid.
"British Empire" are the overseas colonies, especially the Indian ones.
And those only exist because of opium.
The British India Company conquered India only because they wanted to sell Indian opium to chinx.

>>507954963
amerimutt education here