Yeah, because the Algerians just famously sat around and waited for the French to leave, and even if they fought, not like they were in any actual danger.
Yeah the French totally left all on their own, and this love of the freedom fighters is comparable to American conservatives.
That thread is a gold crap mine of dunk tank posts.
god that thread is so dumb. like wow yeah once anticolonial liberation is won the nascent state doesn’t automatically become a utopia, I am a seasoned reddit liberal who knows the ways of the world. removing a knife from my back doesn’t mean I’ll win the fucking olympics! Shocking!
I guess the USA was just going through “growing pains” or some shit for the last 240 years since gaining independence from the British instead of instantly becoming a utopia (even by imperialist lib standards).