I find it weird that copyright gets stretched back into the past when nations become involved (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 months ago by keepcarrot@hexbear.net to c/chapotraphouse@hexbear.net

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It always seems to get deployed as a "The West are the only true innovators" and ignored if its like... The Islamic golden age or whatever. Also like some Arabian merchant couldn't have seen a steam train and gone "Oh, that's a good idea", it required colonialism to get ideas like plumbing etc. all over the world.

Bleh

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[-] Hello_Kitty_enjoyer@hexbear.net 2 points 2 months ago

Punjabis had guns 2000 years ago and the greeks wrote about it

all of history is fake and all european achievements were given to them by aliens (Tesla was the most highly possessed)