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This level of racism behind the creation of this map is only topped by its self-entitlement.

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What happens when you’re convinced “you’re the smartest guy in the room.”

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Ha! Nailed it. That explains everything one needs to know about European royalty. The Dunning-Kruger Effect in Monarchy.

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Not just monarchy, but the entire ruling class! The whole aristocracy was hideously inbred and entitled!

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For sure. It must be have something to do with having no chins and being forced to marry one's first cousin that inspires such hatred for the lower classes.

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I wouldn’t know - I’m from working class stock. We only hit the middle class in the last generation or two (in some parts of my family, and not at all in others).

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Working class path here, as well. All 4 grandparent were Greek Immigrants. My dad a 10th grade dropout with a factory job. Although those paid well in the 50s and 60s.

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We keep on looking back at history almost as though we ourselves aren’t becoming a part of history that too will be reflected upon and yet we keep on making the same damn mistakes. Repeating the same mistakes expecting different results. Says something about our real “intelligence”, doesn’t it?

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Fucked up history that needs to be seen today.

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Yes it is

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Fascinating. I did my undergrad thesis on Joseph Conrad’s Africa tales, including The Heart of Darkness. Striking the Congo is so “unhealthy”

“The horror”

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Great book. Same energy.

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Hearted, but OOF.

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Berlin was a very comfortable place to be while drawing straight lines across a blank silhouette map of Africa.

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It was almost like he’d never been there *rolls eyes*.

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Grin

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