• ViatorOmnium@piefed.social
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    5 hours ago

    You would need to be extremely racist to think the good guys won the Opium War or the wars of European conquest in the Americas or Africa, and even centuries of propaganda spin don’t change that. And there are cases like the Siege of Constantinople in the Fourth Crusade that was rightfully vilified even at the time.

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          2 hours ago

          Definition of a meme according to the Meriam Webster dictionary. “an amusing or interesting item (such as a captioned picture or video)” looks like an amusing captioned picture to me.

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          2 hours ago

          If we’re truly being pedantic, this is a meme as it is an idea shared and spread in a culture.

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      4 hours ago

      Indeed.

      Also just naive to think that there are “good guys” and “bad guys”. When you dig into the nuance of any conflict its almost always complicated.

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        3 hours ago

        Did you guys just completely miss the joke or something? I mean it’s not subtle or anything…

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          3 hours ago

          The joke refers to the addage that history is written by the victor, but that just isn’t true.