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No-Swimmers1622 t1_iujr9q7 wrote

Reply to comment by SkyrimWithdrawal in [OC] Female School Enrollment vs. Fertility by dbabbitt

>>Because it doesn't make sense to bring up an old historical facts to pretend your nation isn't the most criminal of the last century. > >That doesn't answer why are things from 30 years ago or 15 years ago or 5 years ago still relevant? Where's your cut-off? It seems very arbitrary.

Arbitrary is to bring up old historical empires that don't exist anymore from other centuries. We are talking about the nation that has military bases all over the world and is to blame for the poverty in the Global South, we are talking about the ones that have the biggest spy network to steal industry secrets to keep their edge over the rest of the world, you guys kill people without accountability just because it fits your agenda

Your companies are always bribing the puppet regimes you install to get better deals than the local ones, to keep the custom duties low so you can dump your crappy products and kill their industries. You enforce your draconian copyright rules (which patents have been created using drained brains from the rest of the world) to kill any possibility of independent development.

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SkyrimWithdrawal t1_iuk62n8 wrote

>Arbitrary is to bring up old historical empires that don't exist anymore from other centuries.

This was where the whole argument of privilege, structural biases and wealth imbalance comes from: the colonialism and slave trade of past centuries explaining the continued disparities of today.

>We are talking about the nation that has military bases all over the world

At the invitation of those countries. Tiawan is scared shitless of China. Same with Japan. Look at Nato and their Russian adversary. We leave Afghanistan and get shit on for trying to help girls go to school and fight for equal rights. If you want to condemn us for sticking up for them, Fuck you. If you want to condemn us for hunting down terrorist organizations, like Al Qaeda and ISIS, Fuck you. The world is a tough place and I'm certain that if it weren't for the US, you and I would be in a trench, right now.

>Your companies are always bribing the puppet regimes you install to get better deals than the local ones

Your companies suck and your governments suck. Get involved if you want something better than Fanta. If whining on Reddit works for you, your nation will go nowhere.

>You enforce your draconian copyright rules (which patents have been created using drained brains from the rest of the world) to kill any possibility of independent development.

This is about copyright? Your big beef is over copyright? Ahahaha! Who's music did you rip-off and try to pass as your own?

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