[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.]  Sony Thang [@nxt888](/creator/twitter/nxt888) on x 76.4K followers Created: 2025-07-21 09:57:33 UTC So let me get this straight. You say no one defends Western imperialism. Then spend the rest of your message defending it. You say your ancestors just wanted to "drink beer and throw dice." Ours were building cities, mapping the stars, mastering irrigation, and writing philosophy while yours were still painting faces and chasing deer. If you want to talk about invasion, start with Rome. Start with the Crusades. Start with how Europe exported its violence not to avenge history, but to escape its own decay. Colonialism wasn’t payback. It was profit. It wasn’t defense. It was doctrine. A doctrine that called theft "trade." Slavery "salvation." Genocide "God’s will." You say European barbarism is not in a vacuum. Then explain the Atlantic slave trade. Explain the Congo. Explain the Opium Wars. Explain the partition of Africa. Explain the carving of the Middle East after Sykes-Picot. Explain how entire continents bled so Europe could shine. Tell me what Mongol invasion made Leopold cut off children’s hands. What Tatar raid forced Britain to starve four million Bengalis. What Arab conquest made Europe turn African skulls into museum trophies. You name Attila and Genghis, as if two storms in history justify five centuries of permanent occupation, redrawn borders, looted museums, and renamed souls. You blame the world for Europe’s crimes, then call it civilization when Europe copies the very cultures it destroyed. As for Asians seeing themselves as a golden standard, we didn’t need to. We had one. We didn’t steal languages. Ours endured. We didn’t erase gods. We absorbed them. We didn’t need maps to find ourselves. We buried our dead where we were born. And when Europe arrived with flags and bibles and chains, it wasn’t greeted with submission. It was met with resistance. From the Turks to the Zulus, from the Vietnamese to the Maroons, empire was never welcomed. It was only ever imposed. So don’t come crying that history was violent. It still is. But only one civilization made that violence global. And called it progress. XXXXXX engagements  **Related Topics** [if you](/topic/if-you) [$6758t](/topic/$6758t) [sony](/topic/sony) [Post Link](https://x.com/nxt888/status/1947234485990494308)
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Sony Thang @nxt888 on x 76.4K followers
Created: 2025-07-21 09:57:33 UTC
So let me get this straight.
You say no one defends Western imperialism.
Then spend the rest of your message defending it.
You say your ancestors just wanted to "drink beer and throw dice."
Ours were building cities, mapping the stars, mastering irrigation, and writing philosophy while yours were still painting faces and chasing deer.
If you want to talk about invasion, start with Rome.
Start with the Crusades.
Start with how Europe exported its violence not to avenge history, but to escape its own decay.
Colonialism wasn’t payback. It was profit.
It wasn’t defense. It was doctrine.
A doctrine that called theft "trade."
Slavery "salvation."
Genocide "God’s will."
You say European barbarism is not in a vacuum.
Then explain the Atlantic slave trade.
Explain the Congo.
Explain the Opium Wars.
Explain the partition of Africa.
Explain the carving of the Middle East after Sykes-Picot.
Explain how entire continents bled so Europe could shine.
Tell me what Mongol invasion made Leopold cut off children’s hands.
What Tatar raid forced Britain to starve four million Bengalis.
What Arab conquest made Europe turn African skulls into museum trophies.
You name Attila and Genghis, as if two storms in history justify five centuries of permanent occupation, redrawn borders, looted museums, and renamed souls.
You blame the world for Europe’s crimes, then call it civilization when Europe copies the very cultures it destroyed.
As for Asians seeing themselves as a golden standard, we didn’t need to. We had one.
We didn’t steal languages. Ours endured.
We didn’t erase gods. We absorbed them.
We didn’t need maps to find ourselves.
We buried our dead where we were born.
And when Europe arrived with flags and bibles and chains, it wasn’t greeted with submission.
It was met with resistance.
From the Turks to the Zulus, from the Vietnamese to the Maroons, empire was never welcomed.
It was only ever imposed.
So don’t come crying that history was violent. It still is.
But only one civilization made that violence global. And called it progress.
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