• troglodyte_mignon@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    Yep, and while we did progress from the mindset of that time, I don’t think we made as much progress as we should have, and the recent political atmosphere is… worrying. I mean, I don’t think we would enslave Africa again, but I shudder to think of what a superpower with our far right as its head would do. Also, superpowers are intrinsically dangerous, imho.

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          2 hours ago

          The West African Franc and the Central African Franc and how France is using them to hold the economic keys to huge parts of its former colonial empire.

          Not sure if that’s what the previous poster referred to, but that’s what I’d guess.