A Cool DudeM to [email protected] • edit-226 days ago[CW: Death and destruction] How neocolonialism workNSFWlemmy.mlimagemessage-square3fedilinkarrow-up1142arrow-down119
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minus-square@Potatos_are_not_friendslink1•18 days agoI can’t remember which American jingoism movie it was about Iraq, but it had a scene like this. The brown people are like, “You Americans are only here to take our oil!” And the bootlicking soldier was like, “No, we’re here to make you rich.” And while it sounds cool at the time, that was a load of BS.
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I can’t remember which American jingoism movie it was about Iraq, but it had a scene like this.
The brown people are like, “You Americans are only here to take our oil!”
And the bootlicking soldier was like, “No, we’re here to make you rich.”
And while it sounds cool at the time, that was a load of BS.