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  • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Pretty sure we, as a species, chose barbarism back in the early 1800s

    • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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      2 years ago

      Kind of a hot take when you think about how the majority of the human species has been on the involuntary receiving end of barbarism.

      Well, not that most humans weren't engaged in some sort of barbaric bullshit since long before, but most of the world has been systematically denied the ability to choose in any way.

      • FourteenEyes [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        They gerrymandered this bullshit for sure, but the people who choose barbarism make sure there's nobody else left to disagree.

        • Tankiedesantski [he/him]
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          2 years ago

          I was more thinking of the billions of people crushed under the boot heel of Western imperialism for centuries.

      • Dark_salvation [it/its]
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        2 years ago

        Almost as if barbarism was a mystifying term that means :us-foreign-policy: mostly