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cromka • today at 4:36 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

Suicide implies something specific happening in a short time.

EU (which is what you presumably mean by "europe") has its own problems, but it do so much in such a short time. UK got close with Brexit, but that's like a single event compared to probably dozens by now by the US in last 2 years.

But you won't see any of that if best you could do was some weak whataboutism.


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philistine • today at 5:33 PM

I think OP was talking in the past tense because they were referring to the rapid decolonization in the 50s. It must have felt similar to some Europeans at the time.