• Digit@lemmy.wtf
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      11 hours ago

      for being riddled with both genocide and [for want of a better word] tyranny*.

      [* suppression of hemp and other emancipatory technologies, segregation, slavery, jingoism and coups, corruption, robber barons, colonialism and more genocide, etc]

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      18 hours ago

      Banana Republics come to mind. But during the time frame the US was doing that, Most of Europe was still doing their own colonialisms.

      It was only when Hitler brought colonialism back to Europe that they started to wake up to how bad it was. Well, some of them. France and England had to start losing colonial wars, mostly due to losses suffered in due to WW2, before they slowly started freeing colonies.

      Just shows that everyone is shit, and cheering for a team is kind of stupid.

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        5 hours ago

        If that was a typo and you mean international, then certainly for Spanish speaking, African, and nearby countries as well as china (which is all we could manage at that time, though we probably would have aggressed Europe as well if we could have). If you’re talking about domestic, then yes if you weren’t the right kind of Christian white man.