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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago

"Never go in against a Brit when artifacts are on the line!"

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"Never go in against a Brit when artifacts are on the line!"

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PugJesus@lemmy.worldM to A Comm for Historymemes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 22 days ago
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    When they raided the Imperial Summer Palace, they even took one of the Emperor’s concubines’ dogs to give to the queen.

    This little dog was found by me in the Palace of Yuan-Ming-Yuan near Pekin on 6 October 1860. It is supposed to have belonged to either the Empress or one of the ladies of the Imperial Family. It is a most affectionate and intelligent little creature – it has always been accustomed to be treated as a pet and it was with the hope that it might be looked upon as such by Her Majesty and the Royal Family that I have brought it from China.

    This was during the Second Opium war - where the UK and France basically forced China to allow them to sell narcotics to Chinese people. It’d be like if the nation of Mexico teamed up with the cartels to force the US to allow open borders, raided the White House, and took like Champ back to the President of Mexico. (Why doesn’t Trump have a dog? C’mon, take notes from Nixon and Checkers!)

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      1. Trump doesn’t have the ability to have emotions for another living thing, so of course he has no dog.

      2. They kidnapped someone’s fucking pet and dared to say that they “found” them? Is Compassion just not a British trait?

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      Dogs bite him

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      Why doesn’t Trump have a dog? C’mon, take notes from Nixon and Checkers!

      The clue is in the comparison, no one bribed him with a dog yet.

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