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[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 0 points 8 months ago

Meanwhile, the imperialistic native Americans of my side of the Americas were conquering everything that moved left to right before the conquerors from the other side of the world did the same to them. Lol. Skill issue.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 8 months ago

imperialistic native Americans

Lol gtfo of here. You can't just slap the term imperialism on anything you want.

[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 4 points 8 months ago
[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago
[-] pingveno@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Imperialism: a policy of extending a country's power and influence through diplomacy or military force

I don't see how you build the Aztec Empire without it.

[-] ComradeChairmanKGB@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 8 months ago

Imperialism: a policy of extending a country’s power and influence through diplomacy or military force

This is any state ever. Diplomacy or force are literally the only tools by which they can see to their interests. Seriously diplomacy? That's imperialism? Are you insane?

Is this communism@lemmy or neoliberal Wikipedia readers @lemmy? Colonialism is a prerequisite of imperialism. The aztecs weren't great, but they definitely weren't imperialist.

[-] frippa@lemmy.ml 0 points 8 months ago

Imperialism is when big country attacks small country!

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee 1 points 8 months ago
[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 10 points 8 months ago

He's saying Native Americans lived in societies, that they had wars, territories, and slaves the same as we do now.

[-] Harbinger01173430@lemmy.world 9 points 8 months ago

Exactly. They were and are not noble savages like many people believe.

[-] orcrist@lemm.ee -1 points 8 months ago

Right. Again, how is that relevant to the post?

My point is that perhaps the comment was designed to undercut the post. But it's off topic, so the best they could do was be ambiguous about why they wrote it. This kind of vague insinuation is a classic political argument tactic.

[-] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 0 points 8 months ago

How dare people add context or nuance to your perfect world.

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