>debating with someone >they claim that the British Empire

>>2876479
They're right though

I'm not op but i think spain was worse

>>2876479
They're not wrong tho.

>>2878015
Fuck off William

>>2876479
They had their moments of pure dong munching faggot
Namely the Opium war, and Opium war 2.0

>>2878024
whats worse than what they did to the whole of south america look at the natives there compared to the ones in america and the cornish yeah they did some fucked shit but the ones left are at least well off

>>2876479
>laughing assyrians.jpg

>>2878047
Yeah integrating them into society and creating a mixed culture instead of alienating and killing them when they got on your way sounds great.

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>>2876479
>mfw their argument is literally just "colonialism is bad"

2878056
but isnt drinkable water and toilet paper cool?
>let us ask the abbos of down under

>>2878065 my post above was meant 4U

What empire is the most evil and oppressive in history?

>>2878100
the ones that waste dubs

>>2878093
You eat toilet paper and water? eww

>>2878100
Belgium when they had the Congo. With most evil empires, there's at least some level of pragmatism that their "evil" derives from. What Belgium did to the Congo was pure sadism.

>>2878220

t. ignorant cunt

The atrocities that happened in Congo happened before 1909 during the personal rule of Leopold the second. Belgium only was assigned rulership over Congo after 1909 because Leopold made such a mess out of it

>>2876479
Define 'most'. Quantitatively he could be right as Britain's empire was the largest in the world. Qualitatively? Probably not.

>>2876479
>>2876489
this

>conquer India
>massive famines ensue
>population of Bengal and native Indian cotton industry collapse
>textile production in Britain goes into high gear
>sell new production in colonies and soon to be colonies

>Great potato famine in Ireland
>continue the export of food out of Ireland during the famine
>block relief supplies from the United states from reaching Ireland
>block all aid contributions that exceed the amount given by Queen Victoria

>give loan to Argentina to build rail line and port
>it's a big loan so it takes them over a century to pay it off
>give more loans in the meantime to build up cattle industry
>country ends up indebted to Britain forever
>British get a never ending new source of beef

>>2878015
How? The Spaniards had debates about the rights of the Indians and concluded that they should be free citizens.The Brits went to a placed,massacred the indians and putted them in reservation camps

>>2878100
The USA because my history teacher said so.

>>2878100
Nazis, even though they were short lived.