Comment on Do you think that Edward Snowden is a hero?

• pucker4676@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Here’s one example: pulse.ng/…/7-ways-france-still-controls-its-forme…

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  • merc@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    That article made me vigorously expel air from my nose.

    What’s the #1 way that France still controls its former African colonies?

    “1. These countries must officially speak French”

    Did you know England controls the United States? How? England makes the US speak English. I’m super serial! This isn’t a laughing matter, so stop laughing at this matter.

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Oh, I had no idea about this…

    The colonial tax seems especially evil.

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    • ptu@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Luckily it seems entirely fabricated like many other claims on that post in Pulse Nigeria’s Food and Travel section

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• oce@jlai.lu ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  You are answering to someone from a tankie instance, expect their views to be aligned with authoritarian left and take them with many grains of salt. See en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tankie

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  • stoy@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Hey, thanks for telling me, I know about tankies, as well as the instances they run, though I don’t check every user to see where they come from.

    I’ll tag him accordingly.

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  • pucker4676@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I don’t generally dwell on the libshits like yourself, some will never learn the art of thinking critically, but I would like to point out that the best way to control the population is to divide it. You’re either a fed or unknowingly lending them a hand.

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    • masterspace@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      The irony of calling someone a “lib-shit”, over what is, in the grande scheme of things, a minor quibble, in the literal same sentence they talk about how people are dividing the population intentionally to control them.

      Lmfao, you’re the one dividing the population you unselfreflective dipshit. Grow up.

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      • pucker4676@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

        The irony of simping for the west in an Edward Snowden thread. Kindly go fuck yourself.

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  • pucker4676@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    What exactly have I said that wasn’t true?

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    • lord_ryvan@ttrpg.network ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      That countries in the EU are controlling countries in Africa. What else is there you could’ve said that’s not true?

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