• Soot [any]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    This basically more eruditely says exactly what I started thinking when I read this post. That imperialism is a self-reinforcing loop that seems to make imperialist countries’ citizens into worse people.

    • Evilsandwichman [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      That imperialism is a self-reinforcing loop that seems to make imperialist countries’ citizens into worse people.

      I will never get over a neo-liberal post some idiot made about how it was okay for Algeria to be colonized because of Algeria’s culture; he was upset his (Bi?) Algerian girlfriend was suddenly speaking up against the French colonization of Algeria, basically deciding she was too foolish to understand what she was saying; he mocked the idea that the Algerians fought for freedom because Algerian culture isn’t a free culture.

      The reality always at the end of the day is the colonized will never verbally convince imperialists to leave them alone, you have to force them out; Viva the Haitian revolution, viva the Cuban revolution, viva the Irish revolution, viva the South African revolution, viva the Zimbabwean revolution, and so on