(July 3, 2014 at 3:29 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: The country that first abolished slavery and set about to free the world from it, the country the managed to rule the largest empire of all time. The country that stood up to the nazis single handed and kept the light of democracy burning in europe, the driving force behind the industrial age , discoverers of gravity and evolution.
Let's not forget that your country also:
-Instigated not just one, but TWO drug wars.
-Denied the inherent rights of British subjects to every single colony they ever held.
-Routinely shit on the ideas of free trade, voting rights, and aid to the poor.
-Willfully and deliberately starved a million Irish to death.
-Treated dead enemy soldiers in a fashion that would have made Himmler blush.
-Suborned and then turned a blind eye to the rape of civilians by British soldiers.
-Supported the use of concentration camps - but only British ones. Hypocritical fucks.
-Routinely takes a big, stinking shit on the rules of war, including treaties to which it is signatory.
Best country ever? If true, a lousy standard by which to measure the rest of the world.
Boru
‘I can’t be having with this.’ - Esmeralda Weatherwax
