Real talk.

The real quote is almost better

Pretty much the same message, really.

Men like Bordain die because we let men like Kissinger live.

Folks like this are all over America, unfortunately. Hell, some of the fiercest and most vocal colonial defenders are the select handful of refugees permitted to migrate to the US and join in the looting.
- Part of Columbus being raised to the level he was is because of the persecution of Italian immigrants in the USA.
  Some might say Columbus was a DEI hire (similar to confederate statues)
- That last sentence hits hard. Being from South Florida and seeing Cubans pull up the ladder behind them was kinda painful.
- The rat the turncoat the snitch. All have a certain fervor to them.

Whenever something bad happens to France, I remember how they managed to fuck up Haiti after they got their independence, then I stop feeling any sympathy for the french

There are conservative French and there are Leftist French. Not everyone is responsible. Today, there are much worse people than the French to be mad about.
The french nowadays don't have anything in common with the french from the past, except... you know... speaking french.
- France is still exploiting former colonies
  https://jacobin.com/2023/12/france-africa-empire-neocolonialism-domestic-far-right-repression-elites
  https://academic.oup.com/ehr/article/139/596/193/7630506

Still a great day to remember Henry Kissinger is dead.

We better check the Kissinger is dead. Don’t want to worry about Kissinger being a lich.
Oh thank you for the smile! Might actually look up his current resident/public bathroom. Him and Cheney needs some fertilization.

with your bare hands

Belgium took care of that one preemptively.

You're being flippant and know better, but I think it's important to state the obvious and add some nuance. Not to defend the Belgians, but to emphasize the central role capitalism played in the death of up to 15 million people, and how corporate-colonialism never really ended.
Arguably, the worst atrocities in Congo occured when it was the private property of king Leopold, who granted vast concessions to private companies with international investors. For example: the Anglo-Belgian India Rubber Company. They declared bankrupcy in Belgium, and refounded themselves as Abir Company in the Congo Free State, so they could avoid paying tax and avoid Belgian regulation. A corporation moving production/extraction/exploitation abroad, relocating their headquarters to a third country, so they can avoid tax and regulation....
The DRC officially became independent of Belgium in 1960, but colonial corporate rule and influence never truly ended. King Leopold founded Compagnie du Katanga, Compagnie du Katanga became Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga became Umicore. Umicore is very active in Congo to this day. A few years ago Elon Musk signed a deal with them to help supply Congolese cobalt for Tesla cars.
The soon to be trillionaire fascist son of a man who owned an emerald mine in a former British colony, runs a company that produces cars that include cobalt mined by a company that helped kill 15 million people in the Congo Free State.
People prefer to look the other way, then act surprised when the chickens come home to roost.
That was good and dark 👏

this is why i hate when people throw the “colonizer” insult around like a frisbee….
it takes away from the horrors of what they’ve done, and disrespects their victims.
it’s like if someone scuffs your shoe and you call them an SS guard at Auschwitz.
….
also, fuck Belgium in the neck with a knife.

It's definitely reactionary but also understandable since most people that were beneficiaries of colonial exploitation supported the enterprise despite the human cost.
It's an odd one to use today no doubt but we live in a world where those of European ancestary have held certain advantages due to the legacy of that system. It would be genuinely remiss in a truly post racial society but, since we're not there, I see where it comes from.
- that’s not what reactionary means… reactionary comes from the French revolution and referred to people who wanted to preserve or later restore the monarchy. Now it’s pretty much anyone anti-progress or anti-revolution… or anti-communist to the communists.
  “make america great again” is an extremely reactionary slogan, for example.
  when i first heard it i thought it was more like “over reactive” too.
  i see where it comes from too but it’s, well it just bugs me. it’s a mostly online thing, though…
this is why i hate when people throw the “colonizer” insult around like a frisbee….
Do you have an example of this?
- just hit the search on Lemmy, type in “colonizer” and limit it to comments
- here’s one: https://lemm.ee/comment/8151410
  in this example, being insensitive to racial slurs is terrible, but not as bad as invading and occupying a region, enslaving the native population, and cutting off body parts of their children if they don’t meet their work quota gathering chocolate beans for the day….
  in this case explaining what they say they don’t understand is probably better than saying “ok colonizer”

Define "coloniser."

Like the thagomizer but for the colon.
- Lol, spikey tail in my butt is the meaning of life.

Learning about the Dutch's atrocities in Africa makes me feel slightly better about my country's history.

One reason why Columbus was so awful and wanting to take every scrap of precious metal was because he was in debt up to his eyeballs for his little adventure, including with some folks of the leg breaking kind, and knew he had to pay it back when he returned.