military members should be bullied. when one walks into your place of business and asks for a military discount say count dis dick

        • 7bicycles [he/him]
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          61 year ago

          People took issue because somehow the Brits flooding chinese markets with addictive substances to further their imperial ambitions is somehow alien to Americans flooding their own internal markets to secure their imperial ambitions.

          I mean…yeah? yeah it is?

            • 7bicycles [he/him]
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              31 year ago

              These two points do not contradict each other at all. Imperalism turned inwards is just very different from imperalism turned outwards.

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                1 year ago

                How so? What’s the difference between the US importing crack and heroin to mollify revolutionary elements within society and Britain exporting opium to make the Chinese more vulnerable to exploitation?

                • 7bicycles [he/him]
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                  21 year ago

                  At the time that was happening the US claimed to be a democracy for one, to stick to that example. It doesn’t make that better by any means, but the results of whether your own (democratic) country has that happening vs. it being inflicted by a foreign power makes a big difference in perception, which then guides action

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                    11 year ago

                    Why does the “democratic” nature of the US matter more, the internal colonized people in the US didn’t see drugs as less of a threat because it was “their” government instead of a foreign one?