• Phrodo_00@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    The cartoon shows the US aligning with Panama separatist factions to break from Colombia so that they can permit the construction of the channel.

    Panama was a separate colony from Colombia, but they joined when becoming independent.

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      1 year ago

      I find it utterly hilarious that the cited purpose is clarity, but the referenced comic required explanation. Bravo.

      Also thanks for the explanation because I wasn’t getting it, either. Makes sense, though. Give it a few hundred years and English might be so different the labels wouldn’t have mattered at all, let alone missing context.

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          1 year ago

          Good for you! Totally and completely irrelevant to my point.

          The comic already required explanation … while it had text on it. Nothing you say, do, or believe will EVER change the fact that the comic required explanarion about as soon as it was posted.

          Grow up and realize you are not the main character. Your beliefs or knowledge do not change reality.