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[–] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (18 children)

anti imperialist/colonial supporters when they find out that the entire timeline of human history is conquest, colonialism, and imperialism.

[–] theoneIno@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago (13 children)

the ones who prospered were the most aggressive ones, even conquering the whole world by force, it's a survivorship bias situation.

not every group of humans is aggressive, but those eventually get conquered by the agressive ones, military power always ends up winning.

It's unscientific to say that any country, given the chance, would do the same as the europeans or the US empire did to the world.

At least the Chinese century will prove or disprove this theory, given it's the first significant power shift in the last 500 years, let's see if they will be so brutal as the US and its allies (you know who) are to the world.

I firmly doubt it, there are no signs of brutality to other nations coming from the chinese, at most you could argue of some internal issues. There are no invasions, war or regime change operations done by China yet.

As someone from the global south, I don't fear China or even Russia in the least, I only fear what the US or Europe will try to inflict in my country, like the recent regime change operations that I lived through, that was pretty harsh.

[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (5 children)

there are no signs of brutality to other nations coming from the chinese

China is literally committing genocide on the Uyghurs. What makes you think they wouldn't do the same to other groups they dislike if they get into power?

Now they are buying all resources they can in Africa doing the same type of Colonialism Europe did a hundred years ago.

[–] DerKommissar@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Even if your sources weren't biased western rags and people that can't speak a lick of Mandarin but can talk all the trash in the world about China in support of white settlerdom (adrian zenz has 23 citations on your bullshit-ass wikipedia article alone), at least China pays for the things they buy; rather than stealing it at gunpoint like the Americans, the French, any part of the countries that profited off the Transatlantic Slave Trade rly, other et cetera. While we wanna bullshit about 'debt trapping', since that's obviously what you're talking about, what's the IMF again?

Deeply unserious; and DEFINITELY not beating the "weakest link" allegations.

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