alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 5 months agoIn Honor of American Conservatives Learning Homelander is Badlemmy.worldimagemessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1809arrow-down133
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minus-squareJustAnotherRando@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up30·edit-25 months agoBritain (which you mentioned), France, and Spain all have pretty awful imperial histories too. Not saying that to diminish the atrocities of the US by any means, but let’s not pretend the rest of Europe didn’t get up to some bullshit.
minus-squareCPMSP@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up15·5 months agoAnd the Dutch! Don’t forget about the Dutch Kek
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down1·5 months agoYou thought that was a joke in Austin Powers? No. Nigel Powers saw what they did in the Congo. It’s why he was so happy to aid in the Boer War- Wait
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·5 months ago Nigel Powers saw what they did in the Congo. That was Belgium - which TBF is just a bunch of French-speaking dutch people.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3·5 months agoSorry, all Frisians look alike to me
minus-squareChickenLadyLovesLife@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·5 months agoThey literally live on peat.
minus-squareCosmos7349@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·5 months agoThe reason that London has such great museums lol
minus-squareRagnarok314159linkfedilinkarrow-up9arrow-down1·5 months agoWe got screwed over, didn’t even get good museums out of the horrors and atrocities perpetrated by own government.
minus-squarenomous@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7·5 months agoWe got an entire beautiful, resource rich country from some of our horrors and atrocities so that’s something.
minus-squareDragonTypeWyvern@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·5 months agoAlso the most museums per capita in the world with some absolutely amazing ones OP just hasn’t been to. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1203021/museum-density-worldwide-by-region/. Sure, most of them are tax dodges, however
minus-squareblazeknave@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·5 months agoGood thing they’ve let go, like New Caledonia! ;)
Britain (which you mentioned), France, and Spain all have pretty awful imperial histories too. Not saying that to diminish the atrocities of the US by any means, but let’s not pretend the rest of Europe didn’t get up to some bullshit.
And the Dutch! Don’t forget about the Dutch
Kek
You thought that was a joke in Austin Powers?
No. Nigel Powers saw what they did in the Congo.
It’s why he was so happy to aid in the Boer War-
Wait
That was Belgium - which TBF is just a bunch of French-speaking dutch people.
Sorry, all Frisians look alike to me
They literally live on peat.
The reason that London has such great museums lol
We got screwed over, didn’t even get good museums out of the horrors and atrocities perpetrated by own government.
We got an entire beautiful, resource rich country from some of our horrors and atrocities so that’s something.
Also the most museums per capita in the world with some absolutely amazing ones OP just hasn’t been to.
https://www.statista.com/statistics/1203021/museum-density-worldwide-by-region/.
Sure, most of them are tax dodges, however
Good thing they’ve let go, like New Caledonia! ;)