This didn't really happen, though. Strong, powerful nations resisted, and are now major economic powers (e.g. Japan). Weak, under-developed nations were exploited, and had to develop and progress over time.

"the culture". how do you type that, press "add reply", and not immediately implode from ignorance?

amuse us, what aspect of a "culture" allows a country to pull itself out of poverty, while another country, that has been exploited in a similar way, fails to do so because of its shitty "culture"? do you have ANY examples to support this claim? i mean, obvious dog whistle is obvious, but i want to see you try to pretzel this into an actual "argument", lol.

regarding your other "point": ofc countries all over the world have been shitty / brutal / exploitative throughout history - but literally no one is suggesting that everything was rainbows before european nations, and eventually their north american descendants, ruled the world. literally no one is suggesting they have a monopoly on that attitude. however, it'd be dishonest to ignore the fact that the time of their hegemony coincided with an era in which it was logistically and technologically feasible to crank up said exploitation to a global level, and extract basically every valuable resource (including the population) from practically every region in the world. and so they did. like no one else before. acknowledging that is just being honest about history, it does not mean you're implying "the european" is therefore more evil by nature, or anything along those lines, it just truthfully recognises that a large portion of our wealth, a main reason for its current distribution globally is based on centuries of massive exploitation. how dishonest or fragile would you have to be not to acknowledge such basic facts of history?

epic backpedal, lol.
"cover up" for what? what do you think is being "covered up"? please enlighten us, tinfoil karen.

Japan versus China.

The current distribution of wealth is largely a reflection of the industrial revolution, and the complex interplay of factors that led to it. I don't a single intelligent person who believes that Africa would be as wealthy as Europe today if not for exploitation. You would have to be a literal idiot to believe that.

hilarious that that user’s ancestors attempted to exploit the world twice for their own warmongering profit and lost twice in humiliating fashion

that user is now reduced to crying like a little thug on a forum founded by a national of the nation that slapped his little pathetic racist anti-semitic xenophobic national socialist thug ancestors back to their dresden gutters

it really is a shame we went with the marshall plan to help that thug’s nazi national-socialist survivor lineage. we all know his ancestors and fender@d2jsp are eternal supporters of rape/loot/pillage/racism/misogyny/stealing/child abuse/pedo/weinstein worship/warmongering etc.

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learn to read. the likes of africa, south america, india, the middle east, southeast asia... being exploited for their resources for centuries, and that being a major factor for the current distribution of wealth, is a FACT. no amount of stawmanning or moronic speculation can refute that.

i don't (know) a single intelligent person who, confronted with such an easily understandable truth, would read that and think this suggests that every one of those regions would be equally wealthy otherwise - it doesn't even begin to make sense. it's just a dumb person's transparent attempt do deflect / dowplay the west's colonial legacy.

here's the crayon version: those regions would be significantly better off, while europe and north america would be less wealthy. there would be a much smaller wealth and power gap. stop being a dishonest little hack.

Wrong, we invented everything.
Our prosperity came from that.

people dying from a shitty vaccine

and your "REEEEEEEE colonialism" narrative is getting old



check the comments, not even level headed africans are defending their sinkholes

places like haiti are still shitholes after 200 years, while we rebuilt after two world wars

korea got exploited, divided and bombed into oblivion 70 years ago, they bounced back above most of the west with no natural resources to speak of, but its our fault when africa cant get shit done?

how about some productive work

so people die from the vaccine and it's "covered up" by using a term that you falsely claimed "literally didn't exist" (and got fact checked into oblivion, lol)? that would be devastating if true. what do you base that allegation on? actual statistical evidence? scientific sources? experts in the field? or youtube comment sections and your desperate wish to retroactively justify your selfish decision not to get the covid shot, karen?

regarding your usual racist dogwhistles and utter lack of historical knowledge (absurdly trying to equate a war in a region with centuries of resource / population drain, occupation, foreign rule, utter destruction of societal structures and cultures, no rebuilding efforts that even closely match the level of destruction...), just let it go. you know you have no leg to stand on challenging my claim, you will only display your ugly racist self without making any valid historical arguments.

This post was edited by fender on Jun 7 2022 09:17pm