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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Missing a few flags here. Let me list em up:

Italy, Germany and Japan if we want to include the era where the UK was imperialistic. If don't want to include those then including the UK/France flags is unfitting.

Otherwise it's also missing the flags of China and Russia

[–] stevehobbes@lemy.lol 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Portugal, Spain, Netherlands. Pretty much everyone else with a technological advantage.

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup. Imperialism was really popular back then! I just listed those I learned about in history class

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Dutch are happy to be forgotten sometimes

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Shou@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

When was the last human exhibition again? 1958?

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

There's a lot of newly found natural resources in southern and eastern Ukraine. It's funny how the same "imperialists" are always the butt of the joke while there's an actual, massive imperialist war of conquest happening right now. E: testing if editing federates this.

[–] rockSlayer@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yes, Russia's imperialist war is also bad. But what makes you think that the US and France aren't practicing imperialism too, on a much wider scale?

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

What I'm saying is the timing on these memes about past European imperialism make them look absurd with what's happening in Europe right now. All the countries listed in the meme are helping a country fight back an imperialist, expansionist warmongerer.

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And their speed demonizing the local population 😈

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Don't mind us, just liberating some filthy uncivilised commies

[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 year ago

I had a feeling Einstein was wrong....

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 1 year ago

Always has been.:-)