Antartica, the Moon, and Mars are ripe for colonization!

[u/insertfunnyname88]

[u/filthy_federalist]

We need an independent EU human space flight program

[u/Rooilia → u/filthy_federalist]

You will only get it in french. They have to loose a war to adjust their pov towards europe. Maybe West Africa cones in handy. Otherwise i don't see a change in french attitude towards other nations in the EU. Like in the past, nations without colonies developed way faster, with the exception of England, who just owned most rich landstripes in the timeframe.

[u/[deleted] → u/Rooilia]

Hmm? Belgium, the Netherlands, the UK, Denmark and France all had big empires and all are very wealthy. Only countries that had empires and are not quite as wealthy are Portugal, Spain and Italy.

[u/Surymy → u/[deleted]]

Yes, the famous Italian empire consisting of 14 years in Ethiopia

[u/[deleted] → u/Surymy]

Libya too.

[u/Rooilia → u/[deleted]]

And without big empires, they got even richer than before quicker...

[u/BS-Calrissian]

Careful now, don't tell the Brits about space

[u/drury → u/BS-Calrissian]

BREXIT

MEANS

BREXIT

[u/EenGeheimAccount → u/drury]

Brexit from earth, Britain into space!

[u/bluejeansseltzer → u/BS-Calrissian]

I wouldn’t worry about it. If we can’t build houses, we’re not gonna not colonise the stars.

[u/[deleted] → u/BS-Calrissian]

Why? Is there tea there? What kind is it??

[u/BS-Calrissian → u/[deleted]]

It's all black, with a drop of lemon

[u/[deleted] → u/BS-Calrissian]

Gravity keeps them earthbound, just like baron Harkonnen.

[u/snillhundz]

Hell yeah!

(First we gotta clear our still colonial tendencies, looking at you France)

[u/Mistigri70 → u/snillhundz]

*looks at russia, from france*

[u/insertfunnyname88 → u/snillhundz]

Listen man, (sniff) I can quite any time I want, I just sometimes gotta get a quick (sniff) hit, I just need a hit and im all good, man I can quit any time I want, im not addicted (sniff) I don't have a problem, I just need (sniff) a quick hit of those cheap resources and im all good, im not addicted (sniff) just GIVE ME THE FUCKING RESOURCES

[u/The_Astrobiologist → u/snillhundz]

It's honestly kinda crazy how many people don't realize France still has its boot on the neck of a bunch of west African countries still in one way or another

[u/Abel_V → u/The_Astrobiologist]

It's the other way around. All over the Internet you see people talking about French "neo-colonialism" . But this discourse is wildly exaggerated and has been enhanced by Russian disinformation campaigns. The reality is a lot tamer, but that doesn't give YouTubers as many clicks.

[u/Hodoss → u/snillhundz]

Ah yes, let Russia and China take over Africa, surely that will be better.

[u/snillhundz → u/Hodoss]

That's not what I said at all.

Lots of West African people feel exploited by France. So they look to alternatives like Russia and China.

We should treat them like we do fellow European nations, and offer up good trade deals and cooperation projects based on if they meet a certain democratic index.

[u/Hodoss → u/snillhundz]

You should be aware though, this subject is distorted by Russian propaganda. The goal isn't fair treatment of African nations, they just want to take over.

And judging by how Russia has been treating other countries, this will be way worse.

[u/oceangreen25 → u/Hodoss]

Wait until you hear about the Chinese. They are basically doing the same thing we used to do back in the day.

[u/[deleted]]

The moon and mars don't have residents to be enslaved though....(we think)

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yes we will be enslaved soon enough when they destroy the economic model of humans selling things to other humans and can do it all without us....

[u/Yanowic → u/[deleted]]

Ship the brits there first, then.

[u/[deleted] → u/Yanowic]

Only after the Spanish, Portuguese, Germans, Belgians and Austrians....

[u/kundibert]

Venus! Europe sang: "we're heading to Venus!"

[u/RealAbd121]

I'd settle if everyone settled their colonial present! (pun intended)

[u/EZ_LIFE_EZ_CUCUMBER]

reading meme before the title gave me a slightly unsettling feeling

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

We will colonize it and then recolonize it to oppress the natives. What’s so hard to understand Sherlock?

[u/FilipTheCzechGopnik]

I feel like the only reason why you people are saying that is because those places are confirmed to be uninhabited.

Honestly, even if there were any extraterrestrials up there, why should we care about their well-being, let alone what they think? 'Humanity first' is a phrase that no bleeding-heart pacifist should object to.

[u/Ataulv → u/FilipTheCzechGopnik]

Speciest bigot detected. Why is Central Europe always the most far-right like this? Just because you suffered under the communist yoke doesn't give you right to discriminate against our fellow Aldebaran psionic wormnet and the Hollow Moon neogi megatongue.

[u/FilipTheCzechGopnik → u/Ataulv]

I'm struggling to tell if this is a shitpost or not, either way, It'll be a pleasure looking upon our descendants as they clear out entire hives of giant insects to make room for colonists, satirical propaganda shouldn't discourage us one bit.

[u/[deleted] → u/FilipTheCzechGopnik]

I agree with you. The first thing I would want to do to extraterrestrials is put them in my science research lab.

[u/Lost_Uniriser → u/[deleted]]

Research lab ....huh ??? Nah I would try to eat them first...

[u/Less-Researcher184]

An entire continent where no one has done any mining, but na we will do a good chunk of our mining in forests.

[u/[deleted]]

Well, just as long as there aren't any Martians

[u/Anzi0_shiniga → u/[deleted]]

Still better than brits

[u/Grzechoooo]

You're French, you should know your country is already actively engaging in neo-colonialism and it doesn't need any other planets for that.

[u/I_eat_dead_folks → u/Grzechoooo]

Highly unpopular opinion: I think they should keep on. The alternative is that Ruzzia has a lot of puppets throughout the Sahel, destabilising the Southern front for us.

[u/Goblinofthesoup]

Fix the problems we got here first dumbass mars ain't going anywhere but our rights might be going down the shitter so focus on what's important