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Definitely the best conspiracy theory going right now. I hope we live to see China open the “come and take it” museum displaying all the art they’ve reclaimed.
I’d like that museum to have a whole exhibit on the patriots who rescued their stolen cultural artifacts and some details about the thefts, too. And also a Mission Impossible style franchise about them.
Most of the plunder was taken back to Europe and either tucked away in private collections or presented as gifts to royal families. Queen Victoria of Britain was given a pet Pekingese dog, the first of its kind ever seen in Europe. Unabashed by its provenance, she named it Looty.
Well that’s a doozy of a line.
oh but the british royals have totally changed now right?
:padme-2: theyve changed now right?
That article is cool, but also
By the early 2000s, however, China was growing rich and confident, and decidedly less Communist. The fate of the country’s plundered art was seized upon as a focus of national concern and pride.
I guess it’s just not communist to be concerned about your countries history
they kinda did that in black panther at the start which had me kinda hyped, and then they had him shoot his girlfriend for no reason so youd know actually hes eeeeevil and “stealing” from the british museum is bad actually and you should side with the nice cia-backed feudal monarchy against him :)
Unironically Black Atom was way more based than Black Panther
Yeah DC sucks and the edgelord fanbase sucks more but seeing the “heroes” refusing to kill the blackwater goons illegally occupying the country and getting booed by the people followed by Black Atom just killing them and being cheered was fucking awesome
