historymemes·History MemesbyPugJesus How the mighty have fallen 😭View original on piefed.social240Comments9
AAgent641 lemmy.worldBelgium then: I'm going to do the most cruel and horrifying colonization in human history! Belgium now: I'm a quirky fun lil euro state. Come, we have great beer and no dark colonial era secrets! 19
RRothe replypiefed.socialExcept for the "constantly having to worry whether one of them will finally succumb to their right wing extremist parties" part.5
MMalikMuaddibSoong startrek.website I'm not crying for myself. I'm crying for you. They say that great beasts once roamed this world. As big as mountains. Yet all that's left of them is bone and amber. Time undoes even the mightiest of creatures. Just look at what it's done to you. 4
Belgium then: I'm going to do the most cruel and horrifying colonization in human history!
Belgium now: I'm a quirky fun lil euro state. Come, we have great beer and no dark colonial era secrets!
In 20 years... no fish.
Honestly more respectable today
Except for the "constantly having to worry whether one of them will finally succumb to their right wing extremist parties" part.
Yes, well, constant naval warfare became unfashionable, you know.
This is actually a glow up
Why the change? August 6, 1945.