• @Josh_Drake@lemmygrad.ml
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      And always saying it in such a matter that most people will struggle to refute it as they don’t understand what they are referring to by phrases such as ‘starting to add up’.

  • Star Wars Enjoyer
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    gotta love the old-world western talking point of “western countries are the only ones that are civilized, we’re technologically and morally superior to all the savages in the world”

    • @AgreeableLandscape
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      Which is also where the “first world” “second world” “third world” terms came from.

  • @pimento@lemmygrad.ml
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    Western governments still live in the 19th or 20th century. They think they still have the power to do gunboat diplomacy. But the world has changed.

  • @AgreeableLandscape
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    At the risk of stereotyping white people, the profile picture for the author looks exactly like I’d expect someone who’d write that title would look: White, male, old/middle aged, neat and tidy hair and suit (which he definitely didn’t do by himself), upper middle class urban American if I had to guess.