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[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

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

[–] Sheeple@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

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

[–] Vash63@lemmy.world 13 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The Dutch are happy to be forgotten sometimes

[–] McDropout@lemmy.world 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] Shou@lemmy.world 3 points 2 years ago

When was the last human exhibition again? 1958?

[–] Ninmi@sopuli.xyz 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years 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 2 years ago (1 children)

And their speed demonizing the local population 😈

[–] fossphi@lemm.ee 1 points 2 years ago

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

[–] Sagar@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 years ago

I had a feeling Einstein was wrong....

[–] OpenStars@kbin.social 0 points 2 years ago

Always has been.:-)