Some empire denizens are comically evil lol

  • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    23 days ago

    it’s a reference to tzarist russia doing its own manifest destiny and expanding their border all the way to vladivostok, to distract from the american manifest destiny (which was a far far more complete genocide of the indigenous).

    • amemorablename@lemmygrad.ml
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      22 days ago

      Ah ok, so sort of like if they started bringing up wrongdoings of Chinese emperors, in spite of China not having emperors anymore and acting nothing like them. Whereas with the US, it still acts much the same it always has, if not worse in some ways.

      • huf [he/him]@hexbear.net
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        22 days ago

        yeah, it’s related to the idea that communism is a russian (or asiatic) thing so really it doesnt matter what they call it, it’s the same asiatic system