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Damn shame about America, really. It had such promise.
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@zennx I wonder what'll fall first, Australia, United States of America, or India.
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@firestormdangerdash Yes, exactly.
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@critialcloudkicker my personal vote is brazil, FrankerZ's starting to rumble in there
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@zennx Ironically Brazil was colonised in 1500. So it's the first out those 4... It was "freed" just 1 before last out of those 4 though.
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@scribus A Horse With No Name was great but they just couldn't write any hits afterwards! kappa
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@critialcloudkicker One of the things that I always found interesting in the history of the americas (disclaimer: I think racism and slavery is BAD) is that US black people feel entitled as FrankerZ kuz they were enslaved, not saying what they went through was good, but when you compared USA slaves with slaves on the rest of the world, especially Brazil, they got the easy life, Brazilian slaves were basically used a cogs for the sugar mills, most of them didn't last WEEKS before they died of a work accident, or were "disposed of" after they got too injured or sick
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@northernnarwhal Spoken like one who never heard "Ventura Highway" or "Sister Golden Hair." :p
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@zennx Meanwhile because people of colour are able to wave a big flag while shouting "slavery was bad !" there are now a lot of white people walking around with the feeling they did something bad. I believe this touches something on the "regressive left" topic ? But yeah, I think it is not up to them to do anything but vote&think&move towards a solution of whatever problem a country may be facing. Noone must ever forget the monstrous things that the history books can teach us though. And sadly many people seem to be incapable to both not dwell on the past and move forward towards a better tomorrow. This especially seem true in America though. As there are not a whole lot of descendants of Brazilian slaves to fan the flames of white guilt, I think. Which kinda leaves me to wonder, why would Brazil be rumbling ? I mean I can immagine something about Dilma Rousseff, and import taxes on everything that make big companies run away, but that has nothing to do with skincolouration ?
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@northernnarwhal It was good good-bad, I just had to play a musical superiority card on you of all people. :p
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@zennx Also Kunta Kinte was a ( at least part ) fictional American slave. ... Pretty sure that America and Brazil at least both tried to fill up their boats in different parts of Africa ?
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@northernnarwhal I just had to look up release dates to be sure I wasn't accidentally proving your point
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@scribus I know Horse With No Name was on their debut and Ventura Highway was on their second, though I don't remember which record Sister Golden Hair was off of (I believe it was one of their later ones)
