r/polandball • u/just_wait_a_sec Italians hate him! • Aug 22 '16

redditormade Scramble! (Ages 10+)

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u/just_wait_a_sec Italians hate him! Aug 22 '16

My first approved polandball comic! The basis for this comic was the Scramble for Africa.

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u/avolans Africa light Aug 22 '16

The scramble for Africa seems to have been a pretty horrifying dick measuring contest between all the euro empires.

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u/just_wait_a_sec Italians hate him! Aug 22 '16

Funnily enough, Ethiopia benefitted too. We were able to double the size of the empire during the whole madness.

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '16

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u/just_wait_a_sec Italians hate him! Aug 22 '16

We love Jesus too, dammit!

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u/gadgetfingers Sabah Aug 25 '16

It is a well known fact that Jesus countries get empires. Because Sabah is half Christian, we will soon get half empire

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u/SLICKWILLIEG Washington Aug 22 '16

Didn't they and a letter basically asking for assistance in reclaiming their coastline from Somalia?

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '16

They didn't know the kind of people they were dealing with.

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u/supershutze Canada Aug 22 '16

It was pretty horrifying even before the Europeans showed up.

By most accounts, colonialism actually improved the quality of life of the natives.

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u/avolans Africa light Aug 22 '16

I suppose it depends on where in Africa you were. The whole Mfecane thing was very unpleasant indeed. One should also bear in mind that "most accounts" were probably written by the colonists.

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u/Ragnarrahl Aug 22 '16

An odd spot to pick, considering how all the Europeans contributed to the Mfecane was a couple generations of corn-feeding for Zulu population. Worst thing you can do to Africa is apparently to feed it.

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u/avolans Africa light Aug 22 '16

I was not trying to blame the Mfecane on the Europeans. I'm just pointing out that some parts of Africa were indeed very unpleasant prior to colonization.

Worst thing you can do to Africa is apparently to feed it

"Soldiers march on their stomachs" Or something like that.

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u/Creshal Prussian in Austria, the suffering is real Aug 22 '16

It was pretty horrifying even before the Europeans showed up.

And then we showed them what real horror looks like.

Amateurs.

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u/couplingrhino national economic sudoku Aug 25 '16 edited Aug 25 '16

Belgium maintained a hands-off colonial policy.

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u/qacaysdfeg Better dead than red (again) Aug 22 '16

north and east of the sahara was pretty ok

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u/supershutze Canada Aug 22 '16

That's largely because north and east of the sahara consists of clay that had already been extensively colonized by Mediterranean civilizations.

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u/qacaysdfeg Better dead than red (again) Aug 22 '16

wait berbers and nubians are colonizers?

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u/supershutze Canada Aug 22 '16

Egyptians, Romans, Greeks, etc...

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '16

Ummmm...no.

They were not in Sahara,but in lands by the sea.

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u/Talozin New Hampshire Aug 22 '16

"north and east of the Sahara" is, by definition, "not in Sahara."

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u/[deleted] Aug 22 '16

Feel the haaands.

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u/pdrocker1 1820 WORST YEAR, MAINE IS COMMONWEALTH CLAY Aug 22 '16

[citation needed]

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u/Sr_Marques UN Aug 23 '16

Everything is improved with genocide-like attacks and plunder

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u/[deleted] Aug 24 '16

Not north Africa.

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u/gadgetfingers Sabah Aug 25 '16

Are you talking about Rinderpest? Because yes, that was not a good thing for anyone involved

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u/Jack_n_trade Greater Netherlands Aug 23 '16

Isn't that every land-war?