• Brunacho@scribe.disroot.orgEnglish
    11·
    6 months ago

    or the mindset of living in a country that was induced into drug addiction by a “free” country before.

    • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
      0·
      6 months ago

      I can’t seriously believe that Chinese people didn’t abuse psychoactive substances before they discovered the joy of British opium

      • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        6 months ago

        British

        Also Imperial Britain was a monarchy, not a free country. Brunacho’s comment makes zero sense.

        • force@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          6 months ago

          To be fair just before the time of the opium wars they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

          • woelkchen@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            6 months ago

            they were relatively far along in their process of converting to a democracy.

            A country with an unelected House of Lords is still not a free democracy.

            • FozzyOsbourne@lemm.eeEnglish
              2·
              6 months ago

              The wackiest thing is that it’s often the Lords who have stopped the Commons enacting some really authoritarian stuff!