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The shit that is literally on a country’s flag whose identity is one of the earlier civilizations? That country was colonized and went through some of the worst acts of colonialism. Yeah, :lmayo: can't even do the history right.
can’t even do the history right.
the point is for :lmayo: to keep repeating lies until eventually they just get accepted as truth by NPCs
Whatever mesopotamian civilizations had wheels for chariots and stuff. The incas knew how to make wheels but didn't get much use because they lived in the mountains and had no good pack animals. I'm sure other civilizations also invented it but you can't use this even in a "British made railroads" sense god damn
it's a wignat who wants to pretend that the Indoeuropeans invented the wheel (they didn't), and that they were white (they weren't)
I didn’t think he’d be able to top THE WHEEL, but then he claims colonization ended slavery…..and just continues going downhill. :bruh-moment:
trashfuture was right, the queen is beaconing them through the warp to further depths of Anglo depravity.
Here's an elaborate concept for him: I wanna strangle him until his eyes pop out of their fucking sockets
I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it's a very silly thing to say since I would say English can sometimes be one of the least efficient languages for expressing very very particular concepts.
You see em all the time in other languages and in lots of different forms. Germans are great at mishmashing strange words together into a single word, like luftschloss (castle in the sky - a lofty idea). There's other totally foreign conceptual words that connect to cultures which were colonised. Words like Hiraeth in Welsh, meaning a longing for Wales and it's old traditions (roughly, but it's quite abstract so it depends who you ask).
I know I've just given two European examples, but that's cos I'm a European who happens to only be able to remember those two right now. There are of course many many many in languages that I don't speak a smidgeon of.
English on the other hand is usually a bastardisation of Greek and french words with a mix of medieval German connected by rigid Latin prefixes and suffixes, and so on.
Using an example from earlier - Hiraeth sums up an entire abstract cultural concept that you could write an entire essay trying to define in English words.
Luftschloss would because A castle IN THE sky rather than the direct translation skycastle. Capitalised are all the French's and Latin addons.
Sumerians invented slavery when :lmayo: were still living in caves.
sure sure. “created the global slave trade” might be more accurate
I like the ending child sacrifice bit, as if the new colonialists haven't recently argued that children working is good, actually.
:so-true: So glad we don't execute people for religious reasons anymore, now get back to working in the mines!
Wonder how many children were sacrificed in the tiny number of societies we have actual evidence beyond bullshit rumour practised child sacrifice vs the amount of kids killed in the developed world cos for economic reasons we want every chump possible to drive their own car?
Ending constant tribal warfare
These the same guys selling arms to Ukrainian ultranationalists?
peace is when we sign documents to verify our mass murder is legal and good
Many indigenous communities already did that and had counting coup as their form of warfare. There's a Navajo story about a fierce battle that took place and the end result was one person dead. Other nations used sports like Lacrosse to solve issues. You only hear about the violent ones because they weren't killed off as quickly and managed to last the longest.
The phrase 'burying the hatchet' is native American, referring to a method of diplomacy by which two war chiefs would bury a hatchet to signify peace.
Never thought I'd witness the dumbest motherfucker alive, but here we are.
These people are very Sid Meier's civ-brained. They think of technology and advancement as fully linear and just natural. Almost as if people divine technology from some sort of tech-tree rather than as needed where it's needed.
I guess though when you think of the world that way it makes it easier to justify all kinds of horrible things.
I wonder if a computer game could depict invention how it actually works
Forcing them at gunpoint to work in deadly conditions doesn't count as human sacrifice or slavery, apparently
Kinda weird how China has all those things, and much moreso, despite not having been colonized
despite not having been colonized
I think you might have missed a bit of British history there
had it before they were colonized, i think they mean. most colonized people did too tho
If you're equating the century of humiliation to the colonialism of India then you're the one who missed the history lesson
and I'm only talking about recent euro colonialism, not the Mongols, because the NPC in the pic is mostly doing so as well
Being on different scales/different strategies doesn't mean it didn't happen, though. Our new NAFO frens think that China "stole" all of its modern tech from the West instead of the reality where they turned the tables on an extraction-based economy. These people absolutely think that China wouldn't be where it is today without the UK and France and that every part of China outside of Hong Kong (Pre-Protests) is a backwards dystopia.
Being on different scales/different strategies doesn’t mean it didn’t happen, though
If someone breaks into your house and steals all your stuff, your email login info, your credit card statements, your bank account info, your identity
And someone breaks into my house and steals only a flat screen TVThen in relative context, I basically didn't get robbed. And me being better off than you would be a point of evidence that being robbed is bad (I know you agree on this, the point was to rebut the mayo mindworms)
Also in ABSOLUTE context, mainland China was never directly administered by a foreign government. The closest you can get is Japanese Manchuria, which would be analogous to if Europeans administered only Bangladesh and Goa and literally nothing else.
Ireland and Scotland both benefited from colonialism. For example, a university in Glasgow researched itself and found it profited off of the trans-atlantic slave trade ...does that mean its people should just go back to being "the help" for the English? No.
Weird how people are ever so enthusiastic to talk about the good of colonialism and fascism but no one would DARE to say anything positive about the many successes of communism in the Soviet Union, People's Republic of China, or Cuba or risk being cancelled. Mao stopped slavery in Tibet, Cuba exports world-class doctors and is one of the most sustainably developed countries on earth, and the Soviet Union stopped every little boy's favorite person in history: Adolf Hitler.
When you see that "what have the Romans ever done for us?" scene from Monty Python's Life of Brian and base your whole ideology around it :biggus-dickus:
vaccination
like when america did a fake vaccination drive to hunt terrorists in afghanistan, spreading distrust of vaccines
