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A central idea in Domenico Losurdo’s masterpiece Liberalism: A Counter-History is that liberalism was, from its very beginnings, an ideology that sought to justify slavery. Hagiographers of the Founding Fathers and American independence love to portray it as a triumph of “freedom-loving peoples.” According to this story, slavery was merely a lingering imperfection, a backwards holdover righteously stamped out by the Civil War early in the nation’s history, and whatever regrettable byproducts of slavery that remain don’t fundamentally challenge the identification of liberalism and Western democracy with “freedom” as such. Losurdo argues, however, that liberalism is better understood as an ideology produced to satisfy the need felt by capitalists (business owners, entrepreneurs, etc.) to justify their rebellion against the monarchy while simultaneously justifying colonialism, Manifest Destiny, the genocide of indigenous people, chattel slavery, and the active suppression of workers’ rights.

from Really Existing Fascism

rather be under this than the Dave Matthews Band bus

if you want some sectarian commentary that explores this divide check out

https://lemmygrad.ml/post/3353112/3457999

remember when there was a craze around ordering unrefrigerated "pink sauce" from weirdos on TikTok

Hamas and Hezbollah are badly diminished

I don't see any evidence for this

the smiling faces and the certificates have the "Israeli" public absolutely foaming with rage

EDIT: oh and the gift bags! the gift bags are really making them sour

see also John Franklin Miller

The California state legislature elected the Republican Miller as one of the state's two Senators in 1881. He was an outspoken proponent of several bills to limit the influx and influence of Chinese immigrants. He expressed his sentiments during passage of the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act:

"One complete man, the product of free institutions and high civilization, is worth more to the world than hundreds of barbarians. Upon what other theory can we justify the almost complete extermination of the Indians, the original possessor of all these States? I believe that one such man as Newton, or Franklin, or Lincoln, glorifies the creator of the world and benefits mankind more than all the Chinese who have lived, struggled and died on the banks of the Hoang Ho."
— 13 Cong. Rec. 1,487 (1882).

the originator of this term is unknown, but it appears to be a calque of the German "Verschärfte Vernehmung", meaning "intensified interrogation", used in 1937 by Gestapo chief Heinrich Müller

something about an alien parasite that can be killed by exposing the brain, the parasite is eliminated or dies off when the ice age ends

love that the first sentence mentions Juicero