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   lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 21:14:22 JST lainy
   > The British government also paid 20 million pounds – the equivalent of around 17 billion pounds today – to compensate slave owners for the lost capital associated with freeing slaves. This payout was a massive 40% of the government's budget and required many bonds to slave owners to effectuate the law.
   
   honestly the most amazing this is that in the 1830s when this happened, ~20 billion was half of the british government budget in today's pounds. for comparison: the current budget is around 1200 billion, so around 60 times higher, and there's no empire around this time.
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 22:04:42 JST lainy

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     @romin if i had to guess i'd say around 60 times :catnod:
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     ロミンちゃん (romin@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 22:04:43 JST ロミンちゃん

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     @lain how many times is the size of guvment bigger :l_sure:
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     cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 22:13:55 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @lain oh this, I heard that the public was "still paying for it" until recently, which makes all of the social justice BS happening there quite egregious
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     lainy (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 20-Feb-2025 22:13:55 JST lainy

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     @coolboymew apparently the last bond was paid off in 2015
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     :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:12:30 JST :ihavenomouth:

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     @dsm @lain @harblinger ship redditors to africa and demand reparations
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     w0rm (dsm@clew.lol)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:12:31 JST w0rm

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     • Harblinger
     We should restart the Atlantic slave trade and bill the world billions.
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     Harblinger (harblinger@wizard.casa)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:12:32 JST Harblinger

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     @lain having the blank check privilege helps with those kinds of maneuvers

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     w0rm (dsm@clew.lol)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:15:04 JST w0rm

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     Hot take: M23 is a valid rection to Hutu expansion.
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