mad_lentil

k-hole'd

For any confused readers.

I would rather bother them very loudly.

Have there been consequences for the United States' or Canada's genocides against Indigenous peoples? Not really.

People can just get away with things unless you make them pay for it.

EDIT case in point, 200 years from now we could be celebrating the jewel of democracy Israel, while "acknowledging its troubled past" but you're still doing this over the bones of the people your predecessors slaughtered. I'm not even saying it wouldn't be genuine, like people today in the US and Canada bemoan the actions of previous colonizers. But the fact of what happened remains immutable. The slaughter happened, and the people who committed it accomplished their aims. They got away with it.

Even most of the conservative politicians in the US seemed to take this approach, until he started winning (read also: liberal politicians failed to counter his right-wing populism).

What's your point with this? That the allies were right to bomb civilians? That we can have a little genocide, as a treat?

how do I boost on lemmy

Doesn't that make it even more selfless?

Speaking of the 'don, it's not really my usual thing (I never loved twitter), but I have to say it's really bumping lately. Seems like lots of great conversations whenever I visit. I think it's growing on me.

It's a really popular alternative to substack, for one. That's mostly how I know about it — many writers of conscience I subscribed to migrated over when ss went rotten.

[+1] :3

Joke so good it made me stop scrolling for the night.

… what do we call the death and pain caused by pursuit of profits?

The term I've heard for this is social murder:

… an unnatural death that is believed to occur due to social, political, or economic oppression, instead of direct violence.