one of the most ridiculous things liberals do is stand around and pretend capitalist imperialism hasn't straight up genocided and I MEAN genocided countless people, just one example from the usa imperialism in the Philippines at the turn of the 20th century I had never learned about until recently:

Unable to cope with the guerrilla tactics of the Filipino revolutionaries, the U.S. Army decided to starve them into disintegration by destroying their social base — the Filipino population. The same genocidal “Population Regroupment” strategy (as the CIA calls it today) that settlers first used against the Indian nations was revived in the Philippines — and would be used again in Vietnam in our times. The general outlines of U.S. strategy called for destroying all organized social and economic life in guerrilla areas. Villages would be burned down, crops and livestock destroyed, diseases spread, the People killed or forced to evacuate as refugees. Large areas were declared as “free fire zones” in which all Filipinos were to be killed on sight. [167]

Of course, even Euro-Amerikan settlers needed some indoctrination in order to daily carry out such crimes. Indiscriminate killing, looting, and torture were publicly encouraged by the U.S. Army command. Amerikan reporters were invited to witness the daily torture sessions, in which Filipinos would be subjected to the “watercure” (having salt water pumped into their stomachs under pressure). The Boston Herald said:

“Our troops in the Philippines … look upon all Filipinos as of one race and condition, and being dark men, they are therefore n-slur, and entitled to all the contempt and harsh treatment administered by white overlords to the most inferior races.” [168]

U.S. Imperialism took the Philippines by literally turning whole regions into smoldering graveyards. U.S. Brig. Gen. James Bell, upon returning to the U.S. in 1901, said that his men had killed one out of every six Filipinos on the main island of Luzon (that would be some one million deaths just there). It is certain that at least 200,000 Filipinos died in the genocidal conquest. In Samar province, where the patriotic resistance to the U.S. invaders was extremely persistent, U.S. Gen. Jacob Smith ordered his troops to shoot every Filipino man, woman or child they could find “over ten” (years of age). [169]

sorry for the long quote but i felt each barbaric detail was necessary to paint the full picture