UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023

Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:12AM (#34596996)

Even were we to accept that, the whatabout-ism is a shockingly poor taste response to someone with a personal connection to real oppression, and I don't even have words for someone labeling people "woke oppression crusaders" for pointing out that the UK committed crimes against humanity on a vast scale resulting in tens of millions of deaths.

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by zpeti on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:19AM (#34597139)

See my comment above about my family’s experience. As an Eastern European frankly I’m fed up of this British and American bashing. These places were heaven compared to the raids of mongols, Turks, soviets, and everything else in Central Europe.

There are grades of evil.

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by dTal on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @11:28AM (#34597273)

I really don't understand your point. Mongol raids happened, so it's fine to brush the atrocities of the Raj under rug? Bit of a non-sequitor.

Let's turn it around. "I'm fed up of all the Soviet bashing. It was heaven compared to the Congo under King Leopold." See? Not a nice reply is it?

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Re:UK expected to be only major economy to shrink in 2023 – IMF by fidgewidge on Tuesday January 31, 2023 @02:49PM (#34600854)

You're aware that the places the Empire conquered were all empires themselves, right? (with the exception I think of Australia/New Zealand, which weren't developed enough to have anything resembling an empire)

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