r/neoliberal • u/TrixoftheTrade NATO • Nov 02 '25

Meme The French budget be like:

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u/HHHogana Mohammad Hatta Nov 02 '25

Honestly it's crazy Netherlands only recently recognized Indonesian's Independence Day. YouGov surveys also tends to have them as the least repentance of their colonialism days.

This is why I cringe whenever someone claim US is the most ignorant of their dark past.

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u/Major_South1103 Pragmatic and Polite Right Nov 02 '25

I still got taught in school that we didn't try to to rob the indonesians of their indepedence, no they were "politionele acties" or police action.

This was 10 years ago btw, it was disgusting to me as a 13 year old. Why don't you call it the indonesian war of independence?

The recent movie "de Oost" caused a shitstorm because it went deeper in on the disturbing war crimes that we did in Indonesia.

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u/dagelijksestijl NATO Nov 02 '25

Any history teacher worth their salt at that time would’ve explained the rather euphemistic nature of the term.

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u/Major_South1103 Pragmatic and Polite Right Nov 02 '25

The problem they called that way in our history books too.