• Brainsploosh@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    Nah, Europe, Mexico and Canada all had the same influence but managed to avoid the prison/slavery complex with profit driven sexual torture, there’s probably something else at work in the US

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      this is a form of American Exceptionalism that ignores that Mexico and Canada both have legacies of prison/slavery complexes with profit driven sexual torture. Mexican people have reduced (perhaps even eliminated, i’m not an expert on current Mexican affairs) the presence of this influence through generations of education, healing, and resistance to imperialist tendencies coming into mesoamerica to extract everything of value. In Canada the scars of the provincial school system are still felt today with the last residential school having closed in 1997, 29 years ago. There are 34 year olds alive today who remember first hand the sexual violence they experienced at the hands of Canadian sponsored torture facilities. Canadian police continue the practice of driving indigenous women far away from the warmth of their homes, forcing them to walk through the cold, condemning them to death.

      There is nothing special that makes America more wrong than any other State. it is merely a coagulation of the worst tendencies present in all states concentrated by the capitalist necessity to extract everything of value from the land and people. The solution is for the people of the world, everywhere they are, to block the barricades until Sudan, Congo, Ukraine, Palestine, the Dakotas, and everywhere else the imperial tendencies of the global north torture, lynch, and enslave the people are free. America’s torture is resistable just like the tortures conducted in Mexico and Canada.

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      6 days ago

      It’s just the place where those forces were concentrated the strongest. It could have happened anywhere but it happened in the USA.

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        Lol, and it just so happened that everywhere else has had the self control and ethical standards to avoid it.

        The US sure is supremely and consistently unlucky in that regard

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      6 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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          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