• @kalkulat
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    4 days ago

    The Europeans have had -many- centuries longer to screw -everything- up in -every way- and then, eventually, regret it. A bit. So, like most of us humans, who learn most lessons the hard way, they have finally settled on something they can live with … and they call it civilization. With pride.

    Amongst those living there who don’t know all of that history - like most humans - they assume that things got that way reasonably. And brag about it as if it was true.

    Unlike the middle East - which has had -millenia- longer to learn - and which was, is, and it seems always will be, screwing everything up in every way. While they all point their fingers elsewhere. And build very large monuments to survive them.

    • db0
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      103 days ago

      Lol at the casual racism of claiming “middle east is screwing everything up” as is they haven’t been manipulated, exploited and intervened on for the past couple of centuries by EU and USA for their own benefits. What drivel!

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        3 days ago

        I don’t think the EU has existed for most of the last couple centuries, and EU itself hasn’t poked its nose in the Middle East much.

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          13 days ago

          Don’t be deliberately obtuse. Obviously I meant the European nations which now comprise the core of the EU. You realize the age of colonialism and later on the age of imperialism was a exclusively European phenomenon, yes?

          • Blaze (he/him)
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            22 days ago

            exclusively European phenomenon, yes?

            Definitely mostly European, but Japan imperialism still happened

            • db0
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              12 days ago

              Sure, but obviously it’s not pertinent to the middle east.

    • @[email protected]
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      73 days ago

      To be fair to the middle east: It has always been at the core of every trade route, and has always had a target on its back by every single rising empire since basically forever, down to this day. And Europe is the most recent of those.