@icedquinn
I think it's sometime after Moses. The divine right is the whole: "you are god's chosen people, now go to these other lands and conquer them, but take the virgin women for yourself, and also you're allowed to get slaves from countries surround you. You can't have slaves of your own people, cause you are superior, cause the whole god's chosen people thing". It also implies a bit of racism, considering Old Testament was all about the "these people are different than you, slaughter them", although yeah, racism as a concept didn't exist for millennia to come.
@icedquinn
I'm not sure if the current consensus even still is that Egyptians used slaves to build the pyramids, but I know for certain they had families and it's not like those children were suddenly gonna be accepted in their upper classes. Don't think slave breeding was exclusive to Americans. In fact, I know there's a passage in the Old Testament that basically says: "if your master gives you a wife, and you make kids, you get to be a slave to your master forever".
@icedquinn
The race and divine right components are not new. American South did it because it was in the Old Testament. And if it got written in the Old Testament, a couple of thousand of years ago, you better believe it was a common thing at that time and probably well before that.
Just remembered an argument I had with my uncle back in 2020. I was telling him you can't justify forcefully placing somebody in quarantine because "it's for the greater good", that such justifications are no different from what a tyrant would say.
I'm honestly proud that I am able to keep my ground and pull the same argument whenever anybody, on any political side, does the "but I'm fighting for the greater good, cause my enemies are tyrants, so I'm allowed to do this immoral thing".
@icedquinn
Regarding American slavery, the older I get, the less I think it's the worst example of slavery in human history. It's just that it's the most well documented practice of slavery we have.
There's too many examples in recent history of social phenomenon, of crimes or diseases that seemingly are at an all time peak in history, but in reality we only feel that's the case because we get way more information about these things happening that we would have even just 20 years ago. So I'm starting to think it's the same effect with American slavery.
We think Americans were absolutely awful because it was recent and everyone knows plenty about it, while the next example of slavery people are likely to think about is Egyptians building the pyramids, and how much do you think the average person actually knows about Ancient Egypt? I'm pretty sure it would be jack shit.
@icedquinn
That's so true it hurts. Who was it that got into trouble for saying blacks basically chose slavery? Was it Kanye West?
What you say:
"The truckers do, in fact, need to win. They need to win because if they don't they are all arrested then they will have their lives arbitrarily ruined to satisfy the childish temper tantrums of the bureaucrats whose enforcers are suppressing them on the streets as we speak, and lying about their actions in the field on social media, whilst being cheered by masses of evil TV watching monsters."
What I hear:
"The Aryan Germans do, in fact, need to win. They need to win because if they don't they are all arrested then they will have their lives arbitrarily ruined to satisfy the childish temper tantrums of the Jews whose enforcers are suppressing them on the streets as we speak, and lying about their actions in the field on social media, whilst being cheered by masses of evil TV watching Jewish monsters."
The real monsters are the ones that are able to so easily justify immoral actions.
@BlinkRape @PhenomX6 @beardalaxy
I honestly thought the same, but I started to feel like I'm the odd one out here, like i'm the weird one among fedi users.
@icedquinn
I heard from Timmy that it's supposed to happen in March.
The white supremacy narrative is already starting to crumble, this could help collapse it faster, so it wouldn't be that bad.
As for killing the leviathan... you basically need to have an entire nation of people that, although know full well that placing Biden/Trudeau in front of a firing squad without a trial is wrong and a violation of human rights, they'll allow it to happen.
It's what we did in '89. It was completely and utterly wrong. It was the only way Romania would have ever have had any semblance of democracy.
Neither USA nor Canada are in any way near close to that.
@crunklord420
They are Canadian.
@issdeinschnitzel @crunklord420
Shot? No no no... he was hugged. A very strong and painful hug, yes. But a hug nonetheless.
@crunklord420
Maybe the truckers suddenly started vaping. ![]()
Fedi convinced me to stop giving a crap about the truckers. You don't care about them, their families, their rights... you care about using them to overthrow governments and taking that power for yourselves.
You are not some great liberators. You are just the next round of oppressors, and I'm not interested in playing this game.
@horsesoldier
All I'm hearing from you is "but it's for the greater good", which is literally what every tyrant has ever done.
Right now, you, and other people that have attacked me for this one rule of mine, have convinced me that you don't actually give a shit about the truckers or their rights. They seem to be just another tool for you to overthrow current regime and institute your own. And seeing how easily you can justify your actions as being "for the greater good", I have no doubt in my mind you'd end up being a tyrant yourself if given the power.
You people didn't even do a "yeah, that's not great, BUT...". You went straight for "WE NEED TO DO THIS TO WIN".
Also, stop talking about liberalism. You have no clue what that is supposed to mean. And I don't give a crap what I would be considered by you or any "modern Western regime".
@insurgentem @horsesoldier @crunklord420
What if a parent literally rapes their children? Is it still not our place to speak up?
@icedquinn
True. But it's the dirtiest most despicable form of warfare there is. Adults who can't fight themselves abuse children by transforming them into weapons.
I'd have an easier time accepting chemical or biological warfare than this.
@insurgentem @horsesoldier @crunklord420
You might be that gullible to believe that these people don't know what they're doing when filming their children like that, but I'm not.
This is literally my one rule. I've held it for any protest, whether I agreed with it, or I abhorred it (like BLM or antifa shit). And the amount of attacks I get for it speaks volumes about trucker supporters here on fedi at least.
なんで君はこれを読んでいるかよ
Just another random person passing by.
Oh hi.
The Alyx Vance must go this way anyway.
Gordon Freeman dies in All Dogs Go To Heaven 2.
I wasn't designed to be carried.
En Taro Igel!
Lift me up, let me go...