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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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England was the largest imperial state since .. Alexander?? Attila?? It spanned the world at the end of a sabre. I don't even.........
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Originally Posted by Hasbinbad
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Sure it's super easy to have a stable state when 3/4 of the world performs slave labor to provide you goods bro.
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I'm talking about internally, in terms of maintaining the integrity of the state. Of course they are going to go abuse brown people the world over, just like we do today. But back at home, people tended to solve problems by talking before they resorted to brick-throwing. That relative domestic stability helped them go out and subjugate effectively.
This is about the effectiveness of talking before you chimp out. Being a large, brutal empire sucks in certain ways, but it's not very relevant. The state was stable before it "enslaved 3/4 of the world" anyway, and long after. It's about what goes into keeping your evil empire together, not the evil things it does.