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BrokenMegaman
If the ending of course this is anything like the comic. Holy fucking shit.
hotdoginathermos
bohjeenie
Schooled in the 90s, we learnt about our short comings, especially the treatment of India in history class.
Hasaan
Not really, uk history books tend to point out they did a lot of fucked up shit.
WehWehWeh
I don't think English history books try and ignore all the shitty things, just kinda hard to cover them all.
AbelardSnazz
...there have been atrocities along the way, in Kenya, Rhodesia and others, but whilst other empires have collapsed, Britain just downsized
AbelardSnazz
oh bollox, part 2 of my reply should have been to mine on the post above. Sod it
Haveyoutriedturningitoffandthenonagain0
So what you're saying, is that Team America: world police used to be team Brittain: world bobbies?!
ReginaKasteen
The child takes after the parent.
Circe007
USA in their own tv show
plonka2000
Its ok, they'll stop themselves at this rate.
strugglingLoll
VibratingNipples
How Americans see themselves in history books
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Leithoa
Except for the libraries of history books critical of the USs use of genocide, firebombing, massacres, & war crimes.
Gababu
actually it seems it depends greatly the place you go to. In NY they have no problem talking about the racism, sexism and the immigration.
Gababu
they even thought us about the japanese concentration camps and not in the "yay patriotic way"
inxed
America*
OhSoEnglish
Ahhhhh, "England" - famous for subsuming itself in Great Britain and then the United Kingdom.
claykie
Who is the guy on the right?
Alefikus
The bad guy from a show called The Boys, from Amazon prime video. Excellent show! Makes fun of superheroes
vIRLWarlock
literally every country
looper1234
TheAncientSea
As an Irishman
TrapsAreIllegal
Better than Japan tbh. "And suddenly we were nuked. No clue why though. C'est la vie!"
Noob3rts
England experimented on Ireland. Prove me wrong.
jefftoolmeltsbeans
Blame religion for Ireland. Would you rather the Spanish had colonised them?
G0alden3y3
How Indegenous people see Abraham Lincoln.
Justtoberight
What? This meme had originally "USA" not "England" in the title. Not that you are wrong, but still
laurenfirefairy
'Merca also
CuttleFishOfCthulu
"Quick before the British wake up!" Just kidding. We know youre awake. This is how it sounds when you do this though.
Justtoberight
It's 2am. I doubt many people are still awake
VikingForHire
Guess again cunt.
Snograt
Wot e sed.
HowDoesOneDoThis
surprise!
thechelonianshelmet
There's dozens of us..
oboemilyf
The British are awake because the sun never sets on the British Empire
JubeiSama
Because even God couldn't trust the British in the dark
Nigbad1984
That joke is probably older than the commonwealth. Somewhat funnier though.
texscot
Daddy can hear you. No hush, and play with your weapons
ImNotReallyADoctor
Needs more tea
nopost
This new season is really good. Except for one episode, which I felt was poorly paced and had some annoying side plot, I've loved it
Maboroshi1994
is that the source of the guy on the right? what's it from? i'm not familiar with it
Ventorath
The Boys. Pessimistic take on superheroes being basically just another form of shitty celebrity, but with power to wreck shit. But the >>
Ventorath
>> "good guys" are also total shitters, kinda like Breaking Bad.
Sunil227
England doesn't pretend to be innocent. If you haven't noticed they barely hold claim to land that was fought for and won in the past
AbelardSnazz
Our current queen has overseen the dismantlement of the global empire that Victoria established, but this is an achievement not a failure...
zanli
Well... Jacob Rees Mogg and the Empire 2.0 twits think the British Empire was wonderful...
Grimmy32
In some ways it was, in others it wasn't. Depends for whom. Without it we would have England being as diverse as it is. It would 1/2
zanli
You mean the British Empire was good for Britain? Doesn't that go without saying? That was the whole point of it.
Grimmy32
probably have the racial tolerance of the United States. 2/2
tanman729
Man i wish dc had the balls to let the boys happen with the actual JL. It would be next level shit to see superman like that
Molvanian
It would completely destroy the characters and make no god damn sense in universe. That's like saying "I wish Homer was smart and practical"
tanman729
You do know that they have infinite universes to use? Did you just forget about red son?
Molvanian
They already HAVE done an evil Justice League then. Many times. Between Nazi Superman to the Crime Syndicate. Did you forget about those?
tanman729
Was crime syndicate owlman voiced by James woods? Because ya, i actually did. I dont think I've seen nazi Superman at all
Molvanian
I'm not sure on the movie, but I imagine it's the same as the comics one, which had Owlman. Also I think the nazi one is called Overman.
Banatine
Uhh, no. All the history books I read in school were pretty clear that the empire was asshoe.
MyRespectableAlterEgo
Yeah I was gonna say, my history curriculum here was SUPER self-critical... like almost to a fault If I’m honest
Chezoso
We could definitely use a lot more that here...(GA, US)
millenniumf
Oh, so this is Americans projecting their own problems on the rest of the world? What a shock.
PancakesAreDefinitelyCakes
It was weird here in Australia. We learned all about the 'discovery' of Australia, and Cook, and the British Empire, but nothing about 1/2
PancakesAreDefinitelyCakes
2/2 the Indigenous peoples of Australia. As someone with Indigenous heritage, it was like that part of my history was invisible.
DrDoALittleMoreThanBareMinimum
Yeah no...As an Indian growing up in UK you talk about how you stole stuff but never about the mass murderers and religious ears you started
whitewater0034
DrDoALittleMoreThanBareMinimum
Not to mention being kicked out the class for mentioning that Churchill was complicit in the death of 3 million Bengalis so yeah...
Chumbawhumba
You were kicked out of class!?! Fuck, my history tutor pretty much condemned Churchill.
DrDoALittleMoreThanBareMinimum
Yup twice... I was shocked, cos we were taught all this history in India already and when I said it they got angry
Grimmy32
For all the bad that happened to India, England was probably the BETTER outcome considering the amount of warlords fighting for power
BirdJunkie
As you say. Britain fucked up at times, but there were several occasions such as banning sati and female infanticide where we did alright.
Grimmy32
It is that way for many colonised areas. It's not pretty bringing some of these countries where tech was decades behind to 'modern' times.
Grimmy32
This was done through force, slavery, indoctrination, and giving many many people the short end of the stick. Though the infrastructure that
Grimmy32
was set as a ground work for these countries has benefited them well in time (though arguably not worth the human loss)
VisofSer
If you haven't already, check out hardcore history. Seems right up your alley, especially the ongoing Japan series.
pokemonbasher
Yes but it’s not really justified. That might be the case but not the UK’s place to have forced itself on other countries
Grimmy32
That's a modern look back. Go back 300 years, it was the norm.
pokemonbasher
For who?
pokemonbasher
You’re also 150 years off. The British Raj was established in the 1850s
OnsonSweemy
Oh fuck off that's the most privileged, apologist take on global scale raping, pillaging, cultural destruction and human indecency.
Grimmy32
Deal with it, it's history. It was the norm for many countries then. Colonisation provided these countries better tools overall.
OnsonSweemy
Not history, you're making the comment now, and you're defining better now. It's not colonialism I'm challenging it's your bullshit attitude
Grimmy32
Cry more.
Snoopy101x
Same thing with USA.
MDLM81
Usa has turned more into the joker
FlatPlutoSociety
CFB201
Wow. 80's anti-drug commercials are memes now? What's next? Thisisyourbrainondrugs.gif?
FlatPlutoSociety
Oh man, the crush I had on Rachael Leigh Cook from her "this is your brain on drugs" ad was just ridiculous.
ChonkyChungus69
I never knew that. Very cool, tho.
KootchieKoo
The apple don't fall far from the Union Jack.
StuckInBetweeen
Had to learn it from somewhere.
EvilDeadTed
RackhamTheRed
And pretty much every other big bad wolf in history thinking to be exceptional good or bad of itself...
Lucky246
I know that's like the stereotype but my history teachers were always accurate and the only thing really out of proportion was the teachers
Lucky246
Opinion on if the USA should be the world police
im2short2die
Yeah but everyone and their mother uses this meme for the USA, it’s fun to apply it to other countries as well.
Green223
We haven't pissed off/destroyed nearly as many countries as England which says less about us and more about England.
Grimmy32
Not really. Consider the age of the states and the technological age at that time when most of the colonization happened.
reineseele
The US&A is ripe for the current memetic clusterfuck of interventions.
dizzyturtle
America is still young in Country Years. The only two big wars we have been in were to help out our older brother countries.
lesliebananas
America hasn't stop fighting wars since it's inception.
memoriesofamoose
*ahen*As we slowly sweep central and south America under the rug
SomeDetroitGuy
*ahem*Civil War*ahem*
dizzyturtle
That was just a squabble amongst our own Countrymen. I was talking about wars involving other Countries like the post refers to.
chinaPieCreator
*ahem* Vietnam*ahem* and aren’t they still fighting a war that’s been going since Adam was a lad
dizzyturtle
We were trying to help out allies in South Vietnam. We failed miserably.
chinaPieCreator
You said the same thing in your previous post about the other two wars you where in
HypotheticalKarma1
This also works for Japan and America.
blanco69u69
It works for everyone’s wish to be viewed more favorably than they deserve.
EvilDeadTed
kaliedoscopicfrenzy
Lol, nah brah. We fucked over a lot of native americans, and that shit ain't cool. And I acknowledge that
Klingon00
China, and North Korea...
thefartfacedbandit
NK is debatable... they havent conquered anything. But the spirit is spot on.
TheBloodyLady
But he just keeps trying to act tough, bless his overworked, fat little heart.
literallymike
*Spoiler Alert*
literallymike
So does that make Stormfront Germany?
dickable
Russia, France, Spain....
GodsFoot
Argentina:)
WizeGuyThoughts
Italy, Turkey etc...
Grimmy32
The Dutch, the Portugese, you know what I'll leave this here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_empires