• I Cast Fist@programming.dev
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    4 days ago

    “Become a world power”

    You know, we’ve had that experience before, “everywhere else” would pretty much prefer that didn’t happen again, thank you very much.

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      4 days ago

      lol yea. I’m an American and fully support other nations boycotting our goods but I’m noticing an overlap with these boycotts and nationalist-imperialist sentiments.

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      Seriously. Why do people genuinely think this is a good idea? Colonialism and imperialism is bad.

      People should have learned after the US’s faults, and overreliance of it due to being a world power; but people just want to do it again???

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        How does this have anything to do with colonialism?

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            4 days ago

            Is being a super power inherently inclusive with having colonies? I have never heard of that definition before.

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        People should have learned after the US’s faults

        The U.S. huh? That’s who you are going to go with during a discussion of European Imperialism and world power? The Euro’s were out fucking up the world before the United States existed and a full half of the world is still desperately fucked up from literal centuries of horrifically brutal European Imperialism.

        If you need lessons on anti-imperialism you don’t need the United States, just take a gander at the Europeans own histories.

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          ? I think you misunderstood me. I know, the british and french have caused way more damage than the US has caused here. By the US’s faults specifically, i was talking about it caving into fascism (arguably has been rotting for a long time, just finally shown face) and europeans getting away from it. And since the US is a global power, they overrelied on it. Their solution? Just be their another global power, surely nothing bad will happen.