Not to mention they forgot the leaders of those African countries who make deals that give them personal wealth at the expense of their people.
In some cases 1st world countries have installed those leaders, but that’s not really that common.
And the citizens can’t overthrow them their selves, and the other countries who are benefitting have no incentive to “spread democracy” even if they actually mean it this time.
No, I’m saying it’s stupid to blame the people of a country for what their monarchies were doing…
It’s not the fault of “the English” it’s the fault of the guy who was King at the time.
Be pissed all you want, we all should be.
Just be pissed at the people who are actually the problem.
But that’s probably too much to ask of someone unironically using a fucking clown emoji
You should read that
If you actually think England would have honored those treaties to stop expanding tho…
Surprise! They’d have broken them just like America made and broke them.
Which would have been great…
If your comment made anymore sense.
OPs is just a stupid meme tho, they were making a joke. You tried to correct them but you don’t even know what you’re talking about.
Do you think the country got together to workshop this meme?
Or do you think a teenager who’s still in highschool and might even know less than you made it?
No, America got their independence because the wealthiest didn’t want to pay tax to England.
And I seriously doubt the Crown wanted them to stop expanding or treat the natives better before that.
Pretty much everywhere was founded on colonial genocide…
It’s just how recent it happened.
Like, you’re giving America shit for what the English, Spanish, and other countries did before America even existed. But it’s hard to really blame even the English. It was the English people doing it, it was their royalty who were French.
For the vast amount of human history, some random group you may never have even heard about could just roll up and conquer you and take all your shit.
In general, any multimillionaire that gets off of a serious charge doesn’t mean they’re innocent.
It just another example of having ridiculous amounts of money in our legal system means it’s really hard to be hel accountable.
Hell, trump got off of beating and raping his wife, because of an old ass New York law that said a husband can’t rape his wife under any circumstance.
Lupe something.
And he wasnt convicted, but was going to. The state had a “medical expert” show up and testify that there was no way an adult woman could look like that. Just 100% sure of himself and smug as fuck about it.
Then the defense called the pornstar to the stand and she was in her late 20s or something and working in the industry for over a decade.
It was something that never should have made it to trial, and gets used a lot as an example for how shit expert testimony can be. The prosecution doesn’t try to find the person who knows the most, they find whoever can do the best job of convincing a jury that the prosecution is right. So the people who do it (some are professional “expert witnesses”) are just the most overconfident people. Even if they’re not sure, they play it up that there can’t be any doubt.
Yeah, it was really buggy recently, so lots of people just switched instances
He was just mad they were making money instead of him…
Everyone knew as soon as he started saying “pump the brakes” he just wanted a chance to catch up
The speed limit for cars was not the same as horses
Back in the day streets were for people…
Horses were slow and wouldn’t run over someone, so it’s less like driving down an empty street and more like driving through a children’s playground
So…
You think the national party decided to lie about Manchin so that he could obstruct them…
And the goal was to make sure Manchin gets elected again, so he can continue not supporting the party?
I can’t tell if you didn’t read my whole comment, or just didn’t understand it…
Especially with vote bots.
It’s going to be mostly bots voting against each other
Lemmy is better on web than kbin.
But kbin lets you block entire instances as a user, which is worth the tradeoff for me.
There was a couple instances I just didn’t want to see and blocking them by community was like whack a mole
Yep.
Never criticizing your own party is how the republican party became what they are today.
We might not be able to change that, but we can try to prevent it from happening to the only other option in general elections.
The issue is turnout.
I always vote, because I’m lucky enough to get paid time off work for it and little to no wait time.
Some people have to take a day off work and wait 4-8 hours in line.
We could sit around and complain about nonvoters, or we can try to increase voter engagement. But the party needs to make that choice too, and they’re not really great at the second option.
I mean, the war didn’t start because the North wanted to end slavery in the South…
It started because the federal government wouldn’t force northern states who had abolished slavery to return escaped slaves to Southern states.
The part about abolishing slavery nationwide didn’t come up until the war was going on, and that was more an economic sanction than anything else.
So it really did start because of state rights, it’s just it was the northern states fighting for that and the Southern States wanting a federal government that was willing to force states to do stuff.