So, I’m going to suggest India was actually more complicated.

It was non-violent, but with a strong threat that ‘you can’t keep us, China went red, Russia will help us too’.

Gandhi’s pacifism was the face the British put on it to make it look less like they’d been beaten by communism (the congress party was vaguely socialist , but mostly in name only, far less so than other, more hindu parties, it stood for corruption more than anything really).

Also the partition guaranteed neither country would be a major international concern for decades, as they’d be too busy dealing with each other.

You can say a lot about the British, but they were great at IR.

I get that, but I was that nerd shoved in lockers, and while the Midwest was decent, in the south it was far worse because I wasn’t white.

The south tolerated those assholes a lot, and they were extremely ignorant, and their ignorance was a source of pride for them.

I don’t want to demean the Midwestern red staters in any way, other than they clearly follow the wrong person, but the south is following moloch, their literal antichrist, out of hatred of others, and I’m fine holding them in contempt for that because it’s no better than I would expect for them.

Also, they scream and scream about a Bible they’ve never read, and I say that as someone who went to catholic school, they thought I was lying like I said I memorized the phone book.

How exactly is that elitism? You’re specifically arguing against the meritocracy that they consider elitism, all that fancy book-learnin.

Their mascot shits on a golden toilet in his own private country club ffs.

It means the nerds you shoved in lockers who learned to read and now have successful lives while you scrape by trying to make alimony at a job that would pay a living wage if you didn’t live in a right to work state.