1135 sats \ 1 reply \ @Undisciplined OP 29 Jan \ parent \ on: The United States Is a Colonial Empire, and an Extremely Successful One history
It's also different if you're giving people welfare so they'll let you have a military base nearby, than if you're forcing them to labor in mines or plantations.
Yeah, good point. Esp if you can create the welfare by fiat, which is probably a huge part of it. Nobody talks much about that, though.
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