you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 13 points 1 month ago (13 children)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 13 child comments
  • [–] 32 points 1 month ago (7 children)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Yeah but the US did it at a scale an order of magnitude greater. We have more prisoners than most of the world combined.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    absolutely. the extractive capitalist imperial project found safe haven in our governments hall's (more arguably, founded and defined our government since the origins of the US are an alliance of Virginia's purely capitalist project and Massachusetts' purely theocratic project)

  • source
  • parent
  • [+] -17 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    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.

    No they don't.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    Highway of Tears is one thing... But there are also years of starlight tours.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlight_tours

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 0 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    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

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    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?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    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

  • source
  • parent