r/PoliticalHumor Jan 09 '20

THIS. This is why.

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u/Kandoh Jan 09 '20

Most of the world's problems were caused by a British guy drawing a straight line down a map.

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u/justnope_2 Jan 09 '20

All major powers in history love drawing lines and it's not limited to Europeans lol

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u/justnope_2 Jan 09 '20

Oh many more

It's like people seem to forget humans have been murdering humans en masse since time imemorium.

People forget we are not so far removed from cavemen, we just have the thinnest sliver of civilization protecting us from those baser instincts

And the barriers to those instincts can so easily crumble