• deaconblackhorse@lemmy.world
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    11 days ago

    But the British empire was extracting the wealth from the colonies as well. So it was actually in their best interest to protect the colonies or risk losing that income source.

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    10 days ago

    Meanwhile today:

    🇮🇱 We are occupying land and committing war crimes in the Middle East

    🇺🇸 Um what

    🇮🇱 And we are working undercover to brainwash you with propaganda so you can defend them

    🇺🇸 That’s fucked up

    🇮🇱 We need your taxes to support anything that we want to do

    🇺🇸 We heavily disapprove of your government

    🇮🇱 Then stop us

    🇺🇸 Nah sounds like a lot of work and also we’re too compromised to have any power over you