this is some like NATOpedia shit on the Taipin rebellion so like 1000000 grains of salt for everything, but man that quote goes hard

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    Do the people who write this shit know that capitalist and nation-state politics are a zero-sum game? And they just making shit up to indoctrinate kids? Are they so caliper-pilled they literally just don’t consider nations under imperial exploitation as people?

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      The human mind is capable of incredible feats of rationalisation…

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      Are they so caliper-pilled they literally just don’t consider nations under imperial exploitation as people?

      100% this. Especially if they have different religious beliefs. So many white Christians I’ve talked to don’t consider Muslims human, they causally say they want to nuke Muslim-majority nations. Just a bunch of genocidal freaks.