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Here's what subsidizes western lifestyle (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

What kind of a flag is this monstrosity?

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

The East India Company, one of the first major imperialist companies that went on to get military and governmental functions to loot the British colonies.

Together with the Dutch United East India Company, it is one of the most evil companies to ever exist for sure. They together looted, killed and destroyed Asia, Africa and South America and brought incredible wealth to Western Europe.

Edit: in The Netherlands we are actually thaught to be proud of this history, which is lacking any sort of commentary about how we completely fucked over entire countries.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago

Indian here. 200 years of colonisation and we still do not learn... it makes my blood boil.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago

Thank you

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Honestly, you can't go 5 minutes talking about Dutch history with a local without them talking about how the VOC was worth trillions of dollars and how proud they are of it. Like as if you'll see anyone from even the US bragging about Amazon's net worth as if it was a point of national pride.