@Wolfpack93_@cityphil73@nimmosports No, I’m a very proud American. I separate the people and the government. I’m anti-Empire and anti-Western hegemony, which the UK happens to be a big part of, so I’ll take any chance I get to shit on the British Empire. P.S. My last name is Beverly; I’m 75% English.
@cityphil73@Wolfpack93_@nimmosports Oh big man knows big words, he so smart. It means the entire interconnected sphere of civilization at the time. At their peaks, both Rome and Han China held a larger percentage of the world's total population than the British Empire ever did. I can do this all day, you gimp.
@cityphil73@Wolfpack93_@nimmosports biggest or strongest player on the board. For a huge chunk of that time, they were eclipsed by powers like the Spanish Empire, the French, and the Dutch, all of whom held supremacy at various points before Britain finally consolidated its position as the global superpower
@cityphil73@Wolfpack93_@nimmosports No shit they didn't rule the world, they didn't even know half the planet existed. But they absolutely ruled the known world during their respective peaks. Regarding the British Empire lasting 400 years, that’s a broad timeline that ignores many periods where they weren't the-
@Wolfpack93_@nimmosports The fall of Napoleon to WW1 so about 100 years. You aren't anyone's big brother, you're a lap dog for American elites who does what he's told. Up China and socialism all the way.
@Wolfpack93_@nimmosports You were on top for like 100 years, bud. For most of history, your island was a freezing backwater that didn’t know what a shower was, while the Middle East, Rome, and China ran the world.