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FairAndUnbiased said:

the most important distinction of societies before industrialism wasn't in technology, as everyone had roughly the same technology from 200 BC to 1200 AD with only minor differences.

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This is simply not true. There were major world events due to technological differences. For example you had the collapse of Constantinople. It had walls which resisted incursions for hundreds of years. They were broken down with cannon fire.

FairAndUnbiased said:

Even guns were not the determining factor - Chinese, Turks, Persians and Indians had guns and cannons too.

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Even when this was the case just because you had guns and cannon it does not mean they had similar levels of performance. Why is it that only after the Japanese copied the European arquebus that they had the Sengoku period? It is not like the Japanese didn't know what gunpowder or firearms were.

FairAndUnbiased said:

Up to 1700, most empires were stable once the New World got stabilized. Even colonization of the Americas, while hugely disruptive globally, didn't change the status quo for Spain much. They didn't go on a conquering spree with American resources, after all.

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Actually Spain did so. They tried to control much of Europe using the riches they got from the Americas. This culminated in the Thirty Years War.

Keir Starmer has been appointed as the Prime Minister of the UK after having an audience with King Charles III.

ACuriousPLAFan said:

Keir Starmer has been appointed as the Prime Minister of the UK after having an audience with King Charles III.

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End of the Indian Empire?

siegecrossbow said:

End of the Indian Empire?

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And Indians were so certain it would be the Indian century.

Turns out maybe they were not the protagonist after all but the comic relief characters used to extend the plot length.

Randomuser said:

And Indians were so certain it would be the Indian century.

Turns out maybe they were not the protagonist after all but the conic relief characters used to extend the plot length.

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Real question is if they are going to fire his mother in law now.

Randomuser said:

And Indians were so certain it would be the Indian century.

Turns out maybe they were not the protagonist after all but the conic relief characters used to extend the plot length.

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Jia Hind 2120

Randomuser said:

And Indians were so certain it would be the Indian century.

Turns out maybe they were not the protagonist after all but the conic relief characters used to extend the plot length.

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As I've always said - the Gollum on the world stage

When even your personal handlers are trying to get you out of your job be like:

zbb said:

It basically boils down to the difference between the

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. Modern China is materialist while the West is idealist.

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The west are actually materialists who use idealistic worldviews as a strategic ploy to convince peoples of the world to give up their land and wealth.

Chevalier said:

The west are actually materialists who use idealistic worldviews as a strategic ploy to convince peoples of the world to give up their land and wealth.

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Yeah. Imaging actually believing the west give a shit about those ideals when they use weapons to steal resources in the first place.

People need to stop buying into their grift. They are humans just like everyone else. They like something when they are on top and when they aren't and China is taking first place, they suddenly hate that thing. Just look at education. They keep praising elite education until it started getting filled with Chinese looking people. Suddenly it doesn't matter any more and that education is just for people who like grinding. Basically goalpost changing.