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Belgium's King Leopold II as a rubber snake (baraza.africa)

submitted 6 months ago by mwalimu@baraza.africa to c/africa@baraza.africa

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By Edward Linley Sambourne - http://www.punchcartoons.com/More-Categories-history-&-politics-personalities/c200_32_107/p379/In-The-Rubber-Coils/product_info.html, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5279252

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[–] novibe@lemmy.ml 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

It’s crazy to think there were still statues of this dude up around Belgium up until fucking BLM…

[–] mwalimu@baraza.africa 5 points 6 months ago (1 children)

No matter how far we have come as a society, you look again and realize on some things we have really not moved much. if anything, there might be regression. Think of Belgium owning forests in DR Congo for "carbon credits"!!!

[–] livus@kbin.social 3 points 6 months ago

Yes, we could update the snake with Alrosa, Lobaye, all the foreign-owned mining companies and their mercenaries in DRC. Whoever M23 sells its plunder to, as well (Apple, according to recent reports).

[–] kindenough@kbin.social 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Where is my hand? Where did I leave it?