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“I do not admit for instance that a great wrong has been done to the Red Indians of America or the black people of Australia. I do not admit that the dog in the manger has the final right to the manger, though he may have lain there for a very long time.”

– Winston Churchill, UK prime minister and honorary US citizen (by act of Congress). Voted greatest Briton of all time in 2002 BBC poll.

https://anarcholatina.blackblogs.org/oh-no-you-dont-get-to-blame-netanyahu-against-germanic-bothsideism/

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

@[email protected] He wasn't a very nice persoon.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (2 children)

@[email protected] Understatement of the century :)

But the key point is that it’s not just him. Almost half a million British people voted him greatest Briton of all time just two decades ago.

There’s a reason the west has been unabashedly arming a genocide in Palestine for the past year.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] @[email protected] he was contemplating sending the navy to Liverpool to break the strikes too. Utter asshole of a person.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

@[email protected] They do respond well to the whip, don't they?