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77 points

reminder that the world did not enjoy it the last time Europeans were super powerful

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19 points

Europe is the biggest provider of independence days !

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Well, not the EU after the UK left. Spain and France tried but they were up against WASPs and that’s simply not a fair contest of evil.

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33 points

Yeah, they all hated each other and their internal beer hall brawl spilled out over the borders. It wasn’t that Europe was any kind of united force. Maybe it’s time. We’re fucked in the US, now.

Though I gotta admit it’s ironic AF that the Allies set up Germany with a far better constitution/Grundgesezt and government framework than our own Constitution which ended up essentially frozen because politics have gotten so bad that opening it up would have probably destroyed whatever good remained in it thanks to talibangelicals and corporate money.

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I think they were talking about colonialism, not WW2

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Ah, yeah that was a bad time for the rest of the world too.

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4 points

But Europeans loved it

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I don’t think the world enjoys anyone being powerful

I’d rather see other powers collapse than Europe join this stupid game

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7 points

Eh, power vacuums don’t last. You’re basically just asking for a Somalia situation where there’s n small powers continuously at war.

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as if there aren’t any other options

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6 points

Not even most Europeans.

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Hi Americans!

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Europe is not the Germans.

This time you’ll get the Vikings, the Romans, the Conquistadors, the Spartans and the people who ruled the world by the cunning use of flags all teamed together.

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11 points

The British imperialists genocided more people throughout their history than the Germans. Just that the Brits took their time with it. The French, Spanish, Portuguese, Belgians, Dutch and Italians also have many million skeletons in their closet and the French massacred millions of people trying to gain independence after World War 2.

If you go to any place in the world outside of Europe there is a good chance that Europeans committed a massacre there to steal land and resources at some point in the past few hundred years.

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But not now, now for the most part they’re all democratic countries.

You hang on to the past so hard and you get Gaza, India Pakistan war, the Middle East etc.

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Europe is not the Germans.

The English ran laps around the Germans in terms of human attrocity for centuries.

The French weren’t far behind.

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4 points

Hey, don’t forget Belgium. They didn’t have much, but it’s quality over quantity!

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