• verdi@feddit.org
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    Oh ffs, we border Africa and Asia you absolute moppet. There are far greater divisions within Europe than skin colour. France has battled England for longer than the US has existed. Denmark still has a law that allows the Danes to clobber Swedes crossing a frozen Öresund. Half of Europe was once ruled by an inbred caste of Austrians. While all of this happening, there were other races around and the peoples had commercial and social relationships. Almost the entirety of the Iberian peninsula was at some point populated by North Africans and the Roman empire was once divided between East and West.

    Nobody thinks we’re better people, it’s just that the entire globe agrees you’re not good people and are educated to have the miopic view typical of a place that thinks they are better than everyone else while conveniently ignoring they’re living on stolen land from a wealth of genocided native peoples.

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      Wow you border areas very different from you? That’s gotta be a great source of societal change huh.

      Not sure how “we’ve hated each other for stupider reasons for hundreds of years” is your lede but, write what you know, they say.

      Nobody thinks we’re better people, it’s just that the entire globe agrees you’re not good people and are educated to have the miopic view typical of a place that thinks they are better than everyone else while conveniently ignoring they’re living on stolen land from a wealth of genocided native peoples.

      *myopic*. So true about the stolen land. Irrelevant to the discussion but true. Hey I heard you guys literally were the Nazis, is that true?

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        Wow you border areas very different from you? That’s gotta be a great source of societal change huh.

        Written like someone “educated” in the US. If only there was a discipline, I don’t know, like history, that taught thousands of examples of exactly that…

        Hey I heard you guys literally were the Nazis, is that true?

        It was also a European who killed Hitler, so it evens out at the end of the day.

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          Remind me, which African colonies did Americans own into the 1950s.

          I can tell you which European ones existed…

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            I can name you few banana republics well into the 2000s. Shit, you’re trying to do it again in Venezuela RIGHT NOW!

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          It was also a European who killed Hitler, so it evens out at the end of the day.

          Interesting, why aren’t there any statues of this guy, or a day in his honour? Unless there something you’re neglecting to mention lol.

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        Jolly, I can feel the americaness oozing from the screen. They say ignorance is bliss but this doesn’t seem very blissful to me.

        Godspeed my USA friends and strap in - you are about find out so much in the next couple of decades.