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Congrats, you can understand why everyone in the comic is reacting that way.

Do not leave archeologists or geologists alone with a mummy.

Germans, tell me your favorite pretzel bread recipe so this thread stays on active.

Protect him from the crossfire in case an acorn falls nearby.

That's horrifying, wtf happened?

You do understand that Helldivers is a satire of America? This didn't change in 2024. The Helldivers yell about freedom and democracy while having zero meaningful freedom or political influence, and invading other places to steal their oil or murder them for being communists because that is what Americans do.

by 1856 all states had removed the property ownership requirement for whites.

The purpose of that was to marginalize the freed slaves and keep the working class divided. The removal of the requirement wasn't because a faction in power decided it would be nice and create a freer society, but because it gave them further power.

To quote LBJ a century later: "If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you."

Please, just the bare minium reading comprehension next time you try to engage someone.

Don't condescend when you haven't read shit on a subject.

What books are you reading that you think 1776 was about anyone's freedom except for the bourgeoisie's freedom to exploit the working class and genocide the natives?

That's not to say the people who did the fighting and dying didn't think they were fighting for freedom, just that they were surprised when they were disenfranchised by property requirements and laws that favored the big bourgeoisie over themselves. You may remember Shays Rebellion and the Whiskey Rebellion?

If you're looking for further reading, The Counter Revolution of 1776 is a good one.

Third heading down, "former colonial powers and Africa"

Ferero international S.A. is an American company, whiches largest majority owned by Blacrock

Blackrock owns 4%. The majority of its shares are held by the Swiss. It is headquartered in Switzerland.

We're getting in the weeds, the point is that Europe's actions maintain an incredibly unbalanced trade with Africa; colonialism never ended, it just took on a different form. America does this too.

Neocolonialism was used to describe a type of foreign intervention in countries belonging to the Pan-Africanist movement, as well as the Asian–African Conference of Bandung (1955), which led to the Non-Aligned Movement (1961). Neocolonialism was formally defined by the All-African Peoples' Conference (AAPC) and published in the Resolution on Neo-colonialism. At both the Tunis conference (1960) and the Cairo conference (1961), AAPC described the actions of the French Community of independent states, organised by France, as neocolonial.[39][40]

The politician Jacques Foccart, the principal adviser for African matters to French presidents Charles de Gaulle (1958–1969) and Georges Pompidou (1969–1974), was the principal proponent of Françafrique.[41]

The works of Verschave and Beti reported a forty-year, post-independence relationship with France's former colonial peoples, which featured colonial garrisons in situ and monopolies by French multinational corporations, usually for the exploitation of mineral resources. It was argued that the African leaders with close ties to France—especially during the Soviet–American Cold War (1945–1992)—acted more as agents of French business and geopolitical interests than as the national leaders of sovereign states. Cited examples are Omar Bongo (Gabon), Félix Houphouët-Boigny (Ivory Coast), Gnassingbé Eyadéma (Togo), Denis Sassou-Nguesso (Republic of the Congo), Idriss Déby (Chad), and Hamani Diori (Niger)

You know the shit your companies pull, say nestle using slave labour in south america, would not fly here?

Nestle is Swiss.

Again, can you maybe read your links? It exclusively gives examples of immortality of the US?

It literally doesn't, scroll down.

The economic dependency is another fun segment for implying that the smaller countries don’t want the larger one’s investment in return of soft power!

The investment is in maintaining systems that keep resources flowing out as cheaply as possible. Yall aren't sending dictators arms out of the goodness of your hearts.