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Middle Vers wrote:

I'm feeling a little xenophobic.
Time for a trail of tears.

I’m always feeling a bit Xenophobic.

If only history had slightly altered so the British colonized the Phillipines
We would be a bit more built up and industrialised

Franco-british-american empire wrote:

If only history had slightly altered so the British colonized the Phillipines
We would be a bit more built up and industrialised

The British did bad things to the nations they colonised, no doubt about that, but they helped modernise them, which makes them better nations to live in today.

WOIwurrung wrote:

Ha! Haha! Hahaha! BWAHAHAHAHAHA!
We’re no richer than those in the Phillipines.

Dude, you're severely underestimating just how awful inequality is in the Philippines. I've seen massive shanty towns formed near polluted rivers against the backdrop of entire cities.

Santamar wrote:

We have the 3rd largest army in south america and our army is funded by the US

But we still haven't been able to defeat 8000 dudes in the jungle wearing Crocs and using AK-47s

Our Armed Forces are supported by the US

yet we still can't defeat Islamic terrorists in the Southern Island

Caesar Von Bingen wrote:

*Insert Rebellions*

*insert shi*ty leaders, the french, spanish, british, angry peasants, Villa, and others*

Franco-british-american empire wrote:

Yep

Seriously, debating the quality of life in Australia vs Philippines shouldn't be a thing at all.

Orange Creek wrote:

Antigone: "I suppose it is... We shall be removing 80% of Church forces, around 480,000 men, and relocating them to the Caucasus to commence an invasion of that territory. The remaning 120,000 men shall remain as an informal garrison until all Church demands are fulfilled. When we restored you to life, you asked us how you could repay us in exchange for your resurrection. Govern Untecna well, Mr. Condea. That is all we need."

James: Thank you, Scholarch, I shall.

Franco-british-american empire wrote:

If only history had slightly altered so the British colonized the Phillipines
We would be a bit more built up and industrialised

Honestly, I doubt that. Britain had two types of colonies, those that they settle and those that they did not. Their settled colonies like Australia, and the United States did prosper.

But lands like the Philippines definitely would've gotten the same treatment as the British Raj and British Malaya.

Franco-british-american empire wrote:

Yeah fricc Japan
They deserved to be nuked
Killing thousands of Filipinos
And didn't even pay reparations in the slightless so we could at least reconstruct

Although what the Japanese did was horrible, the people of Japan didn’t have anything to do with it, yet it was probably still needed, if we wanted Japan to surrender, and end the war quicker.

Socialist States of Ludistan wrote:

Wow, that’s actually a pretty messed up thing to say. Australia is a First World Country, the Philippines sadly aren’t. This is basically when you say the Irish had just a hard time, as black people in early America, sure they didn’t have it easy, but not as bad.

And the black community in America say they're being "oppressed". I imagine what it's like for the Filipino.

Middle Vers wrote:

And the black community in America say they're being "oppressed". I imagine what it's like for the Filipino.

Ah, let's not go there. We were only debating the economics of things.