i noticed that too. none of those three countries have a good long standing record for doing right by their citizens or the earth at large
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i noticed that too. none of those three countries have a good long standing record for doing right by their citizens or the earth at large
you need to read some history books about how those corrupt governments got into place. what you are describing is the shift in overt fuckery (Leopold chopping off hands) to covert fuckery (interfering in foreign elections to get favorable corrupt officials installed) associated with neocolonialism. the solution isn’t to “get over it” which… wow what a fuckin’ insensitive thing to say about slavery and the deaths of thousands or millions. it’s to pay reparations and build a workable future instead of burning the world to the ground
well and they also don’t like that the nordic countries are profiteers of neocolonialism. but still worlds better than the Anglophone model of profiteering from neocolonialism and the home country gets no benefit, just a small handful of rich people.
the fact that chuck schumer remains a democratic leader after the abject failure of 2016, and then even worse 2024… man it’s awful. what the fuck are we even doing? we got weimar joe and now we have vichy chuck
It can be two things. But part of why the humor lands is that we all kind of get the idea of a foreign power showing up somewhere and destroying an entire culture for a golf course or highway or whatever. It’s a joke that has eternal value thanks to its real critique of something horrible.
As your new overlords we will be implementing horrific working conditions on you! You will work 6 hours a day 3 days a week! We will restrict your freedom of movement by only putting 2 free bus rides on your metro cards a day! All public transit rides after that you will have to pay for by returning an aluminum can for recycling!
It’s all been repeated allegories for the horrors of colonialism. Over and over and over again. Yet some particularly powerful dipshits read something like Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, let’s say, and miss that it’s an allegory for South African Apartheid and how it’s bad. They get to focused on the idea of a space ship with an improbability engine named the Heart of Gold.
Why I bring up this particular example I’ll leave to the reader to decide
we all exist on a constant razor’s edge of anarchism and fascism. which grouping our group falls into comes down to how we as individuals interface with our collectives. the conclusion isn’t “humans are so violent that even the peaceful ones will someday be wiped out” it’s to ask “what did they figure out to resist the pull to fascism that the rest of us haven’t.”
would have thought a nihilist would know that