Wheres the paneer though?

Evokes the memory of Mao’s Four Pests campaign though blocking the Sun will have an obviously broader ecological impact.

I feel the commentary on relative privilege here is meaningful. I think bringing up race in the meme can be off putting to some but the overall message of how relative privilege allows one to approach problems with a more hopeful worldview is accurate.

The relative privileges being invoked here being race, gender and financial security, though the messaging would still convey relatable meaning even if they had only chosen one.

Syphilis?

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Is white a unifying culture in anyway? Wouldn’t calling it Europeans and their diaspora make more sense?

Shout out to certain Indigineous communities, particularly the Wampis Nation, for expelling the Incas and Western colonial and corporate interests to preserve the rainforest.

Scientific evidence supports Indigenous conservation effectiveness across the Amazon. Lands legally titled to Indigenous peoples have lower deforestation rates than untitled Indigenous lands. In Peru, titling Indigenous lands between 2002 and 2005 reduced forest clearing by more than three-quarters and forest disturbance by roughly two-thirds. Areas under Indigenous management serve as robust carbon sinks, capturing 340 million metric tons annually—equivalent to the UK’s annual fossil fuel emissions.

https://youtu.be/tm6VSkm_ko8

Wow this is a big step since that guy that wanted a divorce and wasn’t granted it by the Pope decided to split from the Catholic church once upon a whenever.

I’m glad that the Catholic church got split then (lots of shady shit, they were directly taking donations to absolve sins ie. simony or indulgence payments) but this collaboration should not be relevant for most people.

No one sees an Anglican praying with a Catholic as a grand act of unity. Certainly not in the modern day.

It wasn’t open to interpretation.

And yet, 2000 years later, here we are.

If they identified as Christian but never read the book or rarely go to church, what connection do they have to the religion and why do you feel they wished to impart it on you?

I haven’t read the book but how did it criticize the colonizer mindset? A cursory look makes it seem like a justification of paternalistic authority, so propaganda for kids to blindly listen to their parents haha.

If anything wouldn’t this be justification for colonization, as colonized nations were often infantalized/dehumanized?

The real story here is Russia being so desperate they tried to coercively recruit a computer engineering student as a soldier.

I’m sorry but if those are the criteria then they’re just picking names out of hats at this point and they aren’t even keeping track of the names they put in the hat.

As a PoC we kinda just go with the flow. Got a few scattered family members that support him for his regressive values but its very few and far between. For white people, I can only imagine, entire families must have had a schism put through them.

Spain and then briefly America exploited the Philippines for centuries. Spain made indentured servants of the local population and turned their economy into a cash crop resource extraction machine.

America took over around 1900 and continued that legacy, extracting sugar, coconut and hemp while stalling land reform laws for locals.

It makes sense to move to the nation where the fruits of your and your ancestors labor has been stolen to.

When the United States took over, it enacted the 1902 Public Land Act and the 1935 Commonwealth Agrarian Reform Act, but both were deliberately slowed and limited—public lands were sold only to wealthy buyers, and tenant‑farmers received scant compensation. Had those reforms been fully implemented, they would have ended Spain’s haciendas legacy, transferring titles to the actual cultivators, reduced tenancy obligations, and created a more equitable, productive agricultural sector—laying groundwork for broader rural development and lessening the chronic poverty that still haunts the Philippines today.

Spain’s most blatant exploitation was the hacienda system, which concentrated vast tracts of fertile land in the hands of a few Spanish friars and colonial elites. This was essentially modernized version of medieval fiefdom where Filipinos had no claim to the land they worked on or to the surplus value their labor produced.

Polo y Servicio (forced labor) was a corvée system requiring able‑bodied men to render a set number of days (typically 40–60 per year) of unpaid labor on public works, hacienda fields, or military projects. Non‑compliance could lead to corporal punishment or imprisonment.

Tributo was cash or in‑kind levy imposed on every male household head (and sometimes on whole families). It was meant to fund the colonial administration, the church, and the military. Failure to pay could result in fines, confiscation of property, or forced labor.

America brought an end to the some of the Spanish exploitation but land ownership concentration among the wealthy persisted and the exploitative relationship continued, though in a less formalized framework.

This is the devastating legacy of European and American colonialism.

Finally, there were 4 years of Japanese occupation during WW2 that resulted in significant infrastructure loss.

Tl;Dr: Fuck imperialism.

This sounds like a consequence of coming from money. Some rich parents are slave drivers and others are just happy having their kids live off the trust fund. Wealth makes being a good parent more challenging.

That being said, most kids want to vet away from their parents and establish themselves at that age.

Before 1950: Colonizer. Cool, badass, likely about to commit crimes against humanity to enrich themselves

After 1950: Expat.

People like this never see themselves as immigrants. They believe immigrants extract value while they are value generators that are a benefit to anywhere they may grace with their presence.

Immigrant = Bad. Steals jobs from locals

Expat = Good. Stimulates local economy with capital.

Add a garnish of good old race science (used to justify crimes against humanity for 200 years) and I think you can tell where I’m going with this. Are non-Europeans and their descendants even like, you know, people?

How did the expat get capital you ask? The guy in line one is their daddy’s daddy’s daddy. Or brought that stolen wealth back to their daddy’s daddy’s daddy’s country.

But is that wealth really stolen if its taken from non-people? - the sophistication of moral philosphical quandaries of the European colonial era lmao.

Interesting that the nations that touted popular representation as an aspect of enlightenment also deprived other nations of it for so long.

Sanae Takaichi has served in the House of Representatives almost continuously since 1993, representing the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). After early stints as an independent, she joined the LDP in 1996 and rose through its ranks, holding several cabinet posts under Prime Ministers Shinzo Abe and Fumio Kishida.

In 2025 she won the LDP leadership contest, positioning herself to become Japan’s first female prime.

Takaichi has repeatedly invoked Margaret Thatcher as a personal role model, describing herself as Japan’s “Iron Lady” and citing Thatcher’s strong‑hand approach as inspiration for a “strong and prosperous” Japan.

Political analysts place Takaichi on the right‑wing side of the LDP, and several reputable sources describe her as “far‑right” or “ultraconservative.” Deutsche Welle, the South China Morning Post, and Time magazine have all characterized her as far‑right, noting her frequent visits to the controversial Yasukuni Shrine, her revisionist stance on Japan’s wartime history, and her advocacy for stricter penalties against critics of the government. She also promotes socially conservative policies such as opposing separate surnames for married couples and rejecting female succession to the imperial throne.

The Yasukuni Shrine honors Japan’s war dead, including convicted war criminals from World War II. Its Shinto rites celebrate militaristic sacrifice, and official visits by politicians are viewed by China, South Korea and others as denial of wartime aggression

Yes we can have a granular system but then do we acknowledge:

1. Saudi Arabia has made more progress in the right direction (though dictator driven) while the US has elected a rapist, pedophile trafficker of girls who is keen on undoing progress on woman’s rights. One who was elected by millions of voters which suggests that many agree with his worldview.

2. That neither country respects women, even if one has developed more protections overall.

3. Whether your god is Capitalism or a religious deity, women are seen as having less value (monerarily or spiritually).

Please don’t oversimplify my efforts to bring nuance to this discussion. Making a simple ‘Saudi Arabia is worse than the US’ statement without appropriate context opens the door to two inhumane outcomes that I cannot tolerate.

1. The dehumanization of people in Saudi Arabia for having perceivably less progressive values. We can disagree with people and their value system without forgetting their humanity. Unfortunately such arguments were used during the colonial era by Western powers to justify inumerable immoral acts.

2. The dismissal of challenges faced by women in the US because women in other nations ‘have it worse’.

So while I firmly believe both countries are in the category of ‘Needs Improvement’ I am wary of reductive arguments being used to materially worsen conditions for women both here and there.