#massacres — Public Fediverse posts

Of course, no #apocalypse is complete without the #Oligarchs. But this one is just unforgivable! They want to #plunder in #peace, while people die! And they walk so nonchalantly in our sights.

Do you realize that their #crime is worse than any #war_crime or any #crime_against_humanity? What punishments befit #murders, #massacres and #genocides? This is much worse than all of them. It's a #mass_extinction event! Where do we draw the line? What #punishment do they deserve?

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Imperial violence

"Imperial conquest and colonization depended on pervasive raiding, slaving, and plunder. European empires amassed global power by asserting a right to use unilateral force at their discretion. They Called It Peace is a panoramic history of how these routines of violence remapped the contours of empire and reordered the world from the fifteenth to the twentieth centuries."

The book "brings vividly to life a world in which warmongers portrayed themselves as peacemakers and Europeans imagined “small” violence as essential to imperial rule and global order."
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https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691248479/they-called-it-peace

Benton, Lauren: They Called It Peace. Worlds of Imperial Violence. Princeton 2024
The book analyses imperial violence between 1400 and 1900.
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https://history.yale.edu/people/lauren-benton
#book #history #empires #violence #war #warmongers #massacres #dispossession #IndigenousPeoples #HyperViolentPeace #Pacific #GlobalOrder #peace #TruthTelling

Today at the #food and #clothing #relief #outreach that I help with on #Fridays I found this rare-ish #Australian 1c #coin.

It's a strange thing to be excited about: a product of #dispossession, #massacres, #racism, #ecological destruction, with the kicker that it's now obsolete.

How the feathertail glider on one side contrasts with QEII (decorated with what I'm told are stolen gems, and under whose rule #genocidal acts were perpetrated) on the other just floors me.

What is evil, if not this?