• baines@lemmy.cafe
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    5 days ago

    that’s revisionist as fuck

    east India company anyone?

    what about the literal Aztec empire and human slave sacrifice

    we just tend to be temporally biased

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      5 days ago

      Neither have had for-profit prisons with systematised sexual torture, but even if they did I’d lean into the recency bias and ask: if they could move past it, why did the US double down when faced with better alternatives?

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        5 days ago

        wait you think east india wasnt about profit and had no sexual abuse?

        they didn’t ‘move past it’

        the British got fucked militarily and aztec society collapsed

        we’re on schedule for either end atm

        the us isnt gonna stop doing any of this before them either

        rich abusive fucks wont stop because you protest peacefully or virtue signal on the interwebs