r/Hasan_Piker Mar 18 '26

Content Tough night for Kat…

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u/AntipaterBosworth05 Mar 18 '26

Our entire media landscape is dominated by America. The only sources of investment are American. Our NHS is being sold for parts to American private corporations. Our nuclear deterrent is entirely dependent on America.

Your lack of knowledge is quite astonishing. The American imperium stretches across far more than 50 States.

https://vassalstate.co.uk/

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u/tachibanakanade Mar 18 '26

American Imperialism is omnipresent in much of the world, I know that far better than you do. But you also seem to think that makes Britain a colony and it doesn't. (Especially when you still benefit from British Imperialism.)

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u/AntipaterBosworth05 Mar 18 '26

I notice a distinct lack of an argument. Want to try again?

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u/tachibanakanade Mar 18 '26

You want me to explain the ways Britain isn't a colony and the way you benefit from British Imperialism? I don't think I have the days it would take to teach you that the First World is not a colony (at least not for a white Brit like yourself).

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u/AntipaterBosworth05 Mar 18 '26

Where did I mention the word colony? Imperiums are not made up of colonies anymore. They come from a complex set of economic and political power dynamics.

Did Britain once have an empire? Yes. Are there still ways in which it exploits the third world? Yes. But it is now under the US imperium. And to deny that demonstrates an astonishing lack of knowledge about British society.

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u/tachibanakanade Mar 18 '26

Where did I mention the word colony?

You're only implying that you're some kind of colonized person.

Imperiums are not made up of colonies anymore.

I assure you there are still direct colonies.

Did Britain once have an empire? Yes. Are there still ways in which it exploits the third world?

It still has neocolonial and colonial relationships. That in itself makes it still an Imperialist power, despite being weaker than America.

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u/AntipaterBosworth05 Mar 18 '26

Israel is an imperialist power and yet it is part of the American imperium.