• NateNate60@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    The Americans built their empire by forcibly taking over the lands of other peoples, extinguishing their cultures and languages, and forcing them to adopt the cultural traditions of the empire in the name of patriotism!

    Meanwhile, China and Russia got that big by… uh…

    Hmm.

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      1 month ago

      Lmao imagine being that historically illiterate.

      The west outgunned everybody because they had capitalism. China didn’t. Instead, china had gunboat diplomacy and 20% of junkies because the brits decided to use opium as a weapon of war.

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        1 month ago

        Funny how it’salways some other countries fault, never the fault of the dictators.

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          Of course it’s the fault of dictators, idiot. How many dictators have been put there by a western coup?

          Beside, you have shitty take all around. Didn’t you simp for the israelis?