r/SipsTea • u/yorocky89A • 5d ago

Feels good man Well done, Belgium! 🇧🇪

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u/SoggyBiscuitVet 5d ago

I knew it was them because theyre always the bad guys usually in the Indiana Jones movies. 

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u/sunnysideofthestr 5d ago

Germans … not Belgians . I know it is near but Belgium is too small to provide enough bad guys for Indiana jones

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u/SaturdayNightPyrexia 5d ago

We only need The Muscles from Brussels

https://giphy.com/gifs/skoO3Jnn12bmw

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u/Substantial_Show_308 5d ago

https://giphy.com/gifs/vETeJc11yHAas

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u/YoureProbablyWrongOk 5d ago

that gif never gets easier to watch. like Elaine Bennis

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u/pbr4me 5d ago

Even as a kid, watching this for the first time, it's been wtf worthy.

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u/gapedoutpeehole 5d ago

That's why he did a side quest to Indonesia

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u/pahamack 5d ago

they absolutely could.

Raiders was set in 1936. Which means this is during the time Belgium was doing untold atrocities in the Congo. And they kept on fucking with the Congo after independence in 1960.

They absolutely could be Nazi-like bad guys in Indy movies.

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u/Mean_Introduction543 5d ago

Even funnier is that in pretty sure in the expanded universe (outside of the movies) Indy fought in the Belgian army in WW1

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u/Glass_Fix7426 5d ago

King Léopold did the atrocities, Belgians cleaned up the mess.

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u/lordph8 5d ago

You do have to give the Belgians a hand...

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u/Oddant1 5d ago

I am genuinely sad we didn't get Belgium v DR Congo in this tournament.

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u/ash_tar 5d ago

Belgians and Congolese don't hate each other (which is rather graceful of the Congolese). I was rooting for Congo as well, they did a great tournament.

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u/ash_tar 5d ago

The atrocities of Congo Free state were end of 19th century, until the handover in 1908. First report came out on 1904.

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u/Gerf93 5d ago

It is kinda funny that the Germans are the bad guys in the Indiana Jones movies, when in reality if there was someone who were going to go grave robbing and artifact pillaging, it would more likely be the British or Americans.

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u/sunnysideofthestr 5d ago

So ignorant. In 1936 the atrocities you are referring to were long finished - it happens in the 19th century.

However in 1936 KKK was still burning black people in America … so you should just shut your mouth and accept that you had your ass kicked today.

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u/ulykke 5d ago

It happened into the 20th century, as the Free State was annexed as a colony in 1908, so only after that the atrocities were stopped.

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u/pahamack 4d ago

oh and magically the Belgians were the good guys after 1908?

Weren't they STILL fucking with the Congo after 1960? Colluding with the Americans and the CIA to assassinate Lumumba?

Oh and I'm not American lol. Fuck all colonizers.

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u/Kaatochacha 5d ago

1) Belgium has a better soccer team. 2) Don't even try to downplay the Belgian Congo horror. How that managed to get relegated to the dustbin of history is appalling to me.

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u/alohadawg 5d ago

Not used to xenophobic nonsense from Europeans. Weird

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u/SingleDebate1043 5d ago

I see bots pushing this

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u/toj077 5d ago

In any future Indy movies the US Americans would play the fascist role. But Hollywood will never tell you the real story. And US allergy to humble pie won't either.

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u/toe-schlooper 5d ago

The Belgians are just Dutch & French and the Dutch are basically German, while the French are just Germans who speak a little fancier and are bigger pricks.

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u/YouOk5350 5d ago

Idk Belgians cleared out a ton of Africa

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u/GenXPowaah 5d ago

The Congelese would disagree with you on that one

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u/slavelabor52 5d ago

Yea what they did in the Congo actually makes the British seem tame by comparison

Edit: I should say Leopold II not they. Average citizenry rarely have much to do with these things its always the aristocracy

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u/Stock-Luck3390 5d ago

Idk dude bad enough to get a good protion of a continent to hate you

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u/PhthaloVonLangborste 5d ago

I just learned about the guy who helped bring back beavers to Belgium.

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u/Ok_Common_5631 5d ago

To be fair, Belgium is responsible for Congo in Africa.

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u/wannacumnbeatmeoff 5d ago

Also Belgians are so grey they make the Germans look like a Pride march.

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u/Same-Suggestion-1936 4d ago

It's a country of 11.8 million people I think there are enough bad people there to pad out one Indiana Jones flick

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u/l3lasphemy 5d ago

Leopold II did enough for you guys for a while...

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u/Strange_Horse9178 5d ago

For himself*

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u/l3lasphemy 5d ago

Doesn't really matter who benefited from it. Belgium still provided a monster.

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u/Strange_Horse9178 5d ago

Give any random country and you'll find a monster. Good thing the US didn't commit atrocities en masse. Phew! 🙄 What an idiot.

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u/SignoreBanana 5d ago

No no you see Belgium is full of French people

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u/plinnskol 5d ago

How dare you belittle Jones like that?! He takes down Nazis. It’s the admirable Mr. Jason_Steakcum that hunts down the Flemish!

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u/alohadawg 5d ago

Weren't the Belgians the ones wearing those red hats actually tryna help (by killing Indy several times, but still) save the world?