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by brighter2morrow 2518 days ago
>Horrible Romans were so violent. What have they ever done for us? Well, besides roads and the aqueduct, but other than that?

Exactly. The same people who claim about colonialism are the same ones who complain about intertribal warfare when we leave. We should be thanking colonialists for bringing Peace to the places they conquered, a peace which has washed away since decolonization.

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Thanks for Killing millions of us, our population still hasn't recovered to it's peak 8 million

Signed Ireland.

Also I'd like my father's family farms and moors back, please.

Signed Scotland.

There's 40 million Irish descendants in the US. The Irish weren't wiped out, they just left. Also it's hard to take that concern seriously when today's Irish government has done more to increase foreigner control over Ireland than the British government ever did.
> The Irish weren't wiped out, they just left

They “just left” because the British starved them.

Can't blame the British for Agricural drought. Imagine how many more would have starved without Britain running poor houses there.
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