• krashmo@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    Yes but framing it that way doesn’t allow the nations with older colonial claims to feel superior to the newer ones so they set the cutoff at about 300 years.

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      3 days ago

      Its very important to close the gate at the right point in time so you feel the most important and the only person worthy of pity. For from pity come guilt and guilt is a wonderful commodity to be wielded and leveraged. But its also something you don’t want to waste.

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      4 days ago

      Ugh, those garish folks are New Horror, we Old Horror would never stoop to those levels.

    • punkisundead [they/them]@slrpnk.net
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      4 days ago

      Also the framign of the meme allows for patriotism in so called socialist states, as they are always labeled as (by themselves and by tankies) anti imperialist and antk colonialist.