• DomeGuy@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Is that supposed to be a rebuttal, or did your “6 years of history” not include how to structure an argument?

    I told you it’d be simple to find something your country did worse than the USA, and I found five plausible examples, including one of the glaring eurozone issues I’d suggested before. I’m actually surprised that “slavery” and “LGBTQ rights” are plausibly on there.

    I would hope that a learned historian such as yourself would know better than to assume that their country is uniqjely benevolent, but people who know that usually don’t start mounting off about foreign countries and then start sputtering when someone points out their own country’s failings.

    Was your educational study an academic focus or just the primary education propaganda that every industrialized country in the world feeds their citizens?

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      21 hours ago

      I never said I was a historian. I just had 6 years of history like everyone gets in our educational system. You keep assuming, my man. We actually learn a lot about the black days in our country’s (small) history. Our schools aren’t tainted (yet). Don’t know about the US of A though, but what I’m hearing through the grape vine is not making me very excited for your future academics.

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        15 hours ago

        If you aren’t a historian and “don’t know about the US of A”, then like I said at the start of this exchange you don’t know what you’re talking about.

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          10 hours ago

          At least I can admit I don’t know everything about the country I’m not living in. You’re another story on the other hand.

          Might you believe I actually know more about my own country than you do? The points you make in a previous post are laughable:

          Lagged in gay rights? Did you check when we had our first gay prime minister, when did the USA have his first gay president? Did you have a transgender minister of health yet as well? Don’t assume the USA is as progressive as Europe, parts of it might be, but Northwestern Europe is far more progressive.

          We have a king, yes, but do you even know what that means in our government? It’s just for show, they have no power, they only suck some wealth and in turn provide prestige and sometimes some international economic value. We used to have Leopold II, bad man, he actually owned Congo personally, wasn’t even part of Belgium until he couldn’t keep his colony profitable and had to give it up. Not saying my ancestors hands are completely clean, but this little detail is often forgotten.

          I’m not a historian, but I have a healthy interest in the history of Europe.

          So far you’ve only proven The Dunning Kruger effect to some degree.