just what exactly is liberal about invading foreign countries and submitting them to production quota's at the threat of death?

Private property alone doesn't make capitalism, by that logic the ancient civilzations of egypt and sumer would already be capitalist. Capitalism is a collection of ideas, from the right to own private property to freedom of association, none of which is compatible with slavery.

Which is a big reason why the capitalist countries were the first to outlaw slavery.

Brazil? Their maximum tax bracket isn't even half of what I'm currently paying in taxes, and I'm not even in the highest bracket

Please, do tell me more about... let's say... the luxembourgish imperialism. Did they conquer any new nation recently?

Vietnam, Korea and the middle east should've shown that having an expensive army does not mean that you will win.

In a war of attrition, the US will fall first

How about 🩹?

My girlfriend always laughs how fucked up my hands look after I finish a steelworking project

These work fantastic in the Netherlands. A lot of times you can get to places faster on bike than in a car. The only problem is tourists who aren't used to bikelanes and who keep walking across them without checking if a cyclist is coming their way

The crazier part is that most Europeans still have hope for that relationship

Yes and there's your problem. Instead of building a proper political system you just keep voting for tyrants all the while burning others because they voted on the wrong tyrant.

Stop voting and get your pitchforks out

Look up "parliament" to learn why casting any vote rather than rebuilding the whole system from scratch leads to supporting tyrants

Yeah it's crazy what you can achieve when you turn millions of people into a slave army for a dictatorship