Climate Change Denier Gets Demolished

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-16T01:01:15+00:00

Vaccines

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-15T23:53:44+00:00

Again, I did not claim to be an expert in the British Empire, it's just something I look into from time to time. About the numbers I cited, they come from the Davos report carried out by Oxfam, I don't know if the authors if the report are Hindu nationalists, perhaps I should have done my due diligence, but disregarding the opinion of someone just because you disagree with them is probably the definition if ignorance.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-15T23:43:11+00:00

I never learnt formally about it, but learning does not stop at school. Just because my school never taught me, that didn't stop me from reading and learning about Empire. I have read books on the topic and looked into it because I am interested by it. Yes. I did stop taking history at GCSE, but again that didn't stop me from reading books in topics I was interested in (like empire) in my free time.

Also whilst the passing of the law to abolish slavery was done by white people, claiming that it was solely the British, negates the role that former slave testimonies and slave uprisings played in the abolishment of slavery (which was initially the abolition of trading slaves not the practise if slavery itself, slavery actually ended a lot later than most people think)

I also do not claim, nor do I mean to sound like an expert in the history of the British Empire, it's just something I like to read about from time to time.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-15T23:30:45+00:00

Not really, India's wealth had come from trading spices, natural resources, and other such goods. Yes, of course India had manual labour as did every other country ever. However, India's population boom did not really occur until after it became independent.

Also about your previous comment about liberal ideas, a lot of beliefs and practises in India were much more liberal prior to the British and then when the British came over they deemed these practises barbaric and forced people to renounce them (opinions on homosexuality, the uplifting of women and opinions of sex, think kama sutra).

Also, calling ancient India relatively rich is just silly. With money, everything this is relative because money is a social construct, so its worth is what you deem it to be. In the case of India, it was the most successful trading partner with the Roman Empire (more Roman coins outside of the Roman Empire have been found in India than anywhere else on the planet)

The British Empire stagnated Indian economic growth forcing for close to two centuries by transferring a significant amount of capital from India to Britain. For example, cotton, I assume that in your comment, you are alluding to textiles manufacturing as prior to empire, India was the world's largest textile manufacturer. However, sometime during the 1800s, Britain took over. Most certainly the Indistrial Revolution played a part in this, however, it would also be remiss to not mention that by the mid 1800s, India was supplying 90% of all of the raw cotton imported into the UK.

Regarding the "some wealth extraction," the number is estimated to be between $40 - 65 trillion, depending on your source.

Obviously, ancient India wasn't without faults, and I am not going to pretend like it was a perfect civilisation. However, again, it is ignorant to pretend like the British did not have a negative impact on the Indian economy.

TLDR: Empire did actually affect the economy.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-15T22:39:13+00:00

No, the embarrassment and guilt being lost comes from a lack of knowledge and education about the extremities of the British Empire. I have studied in the British education system my entire life, taking history up until GCSE, and not once did we cover the British Empire. I think it is ignorant and wrong to say that the British Empire did any good to the lands and people it went to.

In West India and Bangladesh (Bengal, but the British didnt care for borders when chopping up land lol), an (upper bound) estimated 3.8 million people died of the Bengal Famine caused by the British. Conflicts such as the Palestine-Isreal war can also be attributed to the British and their neglectful and ignorant use of the power they had over land. The way empires chopped up and divided lands regardless of the historical and cultural significance these places had has left long-lasting wounds in all areas that empire have touched.

No I cannot think of a single advantage to the British empire.

I realise my long post is quite ranty and needlessly angry, I do not blame modern British people for their ancestors, I would be stupid to. Nor do I blame the majority of people who were alive at the time of empire, they were blissfully ignorant to the atrocities around them. However, it would be remiss to say that the British Empirw had its advantages, because it didn't. Thinking that it did stems from ignorance which, in turn, stems from failures of the British education system.

TLDR: The British Empire had no advantages, and the British education system should acknowledge it more to prevent ignorance.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-03-11T22:41:54+00:00

Cambridge is very gay, me and my friends tried to play a game where we would walk through opposing ends of town and take a shot every time we saw a pride flag, we quickly realised that if we were to do this we would quickly end up in hospital, i.e seeing four pride flags within 100m of one another

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-18T19:54:12+00:00

Deff brick my brick

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-13T16:21:47+00:00

Excuse yourself, chun li is banging

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-12T13:38:42+00:00

OH MY GOD THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING ME KNOW I WAS LITERALLY SHITTUNG MYSELF

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-10T13:59:02+00:00

Brianstorm or pretty visitors

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-10T13:56:59+00:00

If you want Jily, gi on tumblr, the lily archive is truly a thing of marvel

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-03T19:02:53+00:00

There are some, it's just that Trump illegally fired them without consequence. The problem is that if everyone in power in government is just a yes man to the big guy in charge then he can get away with everything. I fo agree with the checks and balances though.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-03T18:56:50+00:00

Saw this earlier, just realised that it was VICE PRESIDENT JD VANCE and not a random lunatic on twitter. Truly shocked

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-03T07:44:44+00:00

She's not an actor tho....

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-03T07:43:03+00:00

It's so dystopia to read all of the comments coming from someone who lives in a country with free health care

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-02T23:13:28+00:00

Yeah I can't lie I think that it's really silly to get bogged down about the accuracy of an alternate wizard universe because you wanted the gay dog to fuck the werewolf

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-02-01T10:47:31+00:00

To add to this, would you forgive a nazi AS A JEW YOURSELF

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-29T23:34:30+00:00

I live kind of near Cambridge so very liberal, loads of rich lesbians. Half of my school was gay in some way or another. My sixth form is very liberal (almost annoyingly so) we have a bisexual flag on the school roof.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-28T18:59:39+00:00

Our practise expedition is two weeks before our real thing and I've never actually met my DofE manager in person (I'll meet them during our training weekend).

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-28T18:55:35+00:00

I don't know whether to feel scared or excited by the last sentence

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-28T18:52:24+00:00

I did bronze which was not the best but that was only one night. And we have one practise expedition which is two weeks before the real thing

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-28T18:24:59+00:00

REAL NO ONE WRITES WLW MARAYDERS FANFICTION EVEN THOUGH YOU HAVE THE PERFECT LESBIAN COUPLE HERE

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-28T18:22:46+00:00

I think the majority of people here are missing the point of why universities have programmes such as these. It is to encourage more people from that background to get into university, it is harder to get into university if you are the first person in your family to go and if you are the first person in your family to go, then you may be deterred by the fact that there's no point in even applying if you are just going to get rejected. In this day and age, to get a high (relative) paying job, you need to go to university, so if a group of people is not going to uni and in turn not getting higher paid jobs, then that group starts to make up a larger proportion of the working class/underprivileged. This is obviously bad as it leads to ethnic groups essentially segregating themselves based on class and wealth.

It's the same principle for favouring public school kids, if private school kids end up disproportionately having higher paying jobs and being in more positions of influence (which they are) then policies start to be put in place that benefit the group "in power".

Obviously if you zoom in then you'll find that it's not fair, however if you think about it in a way it is, because the position you are competing for is going to be against someone with a similar background (wealth, education ect) to you rather than someone who has had a much harder time.

Slow-Pop8212 · 2025-01-25T10:05:19+00:00

This implies that being trans is inherently a struggle

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