Comment on The duality of man

ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  People love to idealize the past…

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• mienshao@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

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  • eatCasserole@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    “The West” is Europe and its colonies. Funny to assume anyone you don’t understand is brain dead.

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  • ArgumentativeMonotheist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Well, America wasn’t America yet exactly 100 years ago (being a young country and all), and the deaths in the region took place mostly through the British and the French, fair enough, but I feel like they more than made up for it:

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    • ddplf@szmer.info ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, America wasn’t America yet exactly 100 years ago (being a young country and all)

      Huh? What are you talking about?

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      • mhague@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.

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• RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  They didn’t invent bombs back then only rocks and sharp sticks.

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