It's kind of amazing after doing the absolute most extractive colonialism around the world, slave trading and genocides and ruination of land and societies just looted into the isles, the Brits have managed to squander everything so much in the last 70ish years that they've turned themselves into a backwards, increasingly poor nation. They've thrown the richest empire the world has ever known away to become a broke rump nation on the edge of Europe, with literal shit in the water supply.
@quinn
It wasn't thrown away. It was embezzled. #stolen.
The British 0.01% ran out of #Empire to steal from, so they took what they could out of the mouths of the mouths, homes and lives of the #British people, all the while pointing at Europe, making jingoistic "Juan Foreigner" jokes.
Average US Taxpayer Contributed More to Militarism Than Medicare in 2023: Report: "This year $5,109 of the average American's taxpayer dollars went to fund the military and its support systems"..#Empire..#endlesswar..
On 16th Ramadan, 1296, Ali Gurshasp was enthroned as Sultan Alauddin Khalji, the 2nd monarch from the Turkic Khalji Dynasty to rule the Delhi Sultanate.
Despite the controversy surrounding his enthronement, Alauddin Khalji proved to be one of the most dynamic & successful monarchs of Delhi.
While everyone's losing their minds over a photoshopped picture, perhaps we could pause for a moment to reflect on the fact that the inherently racist British Empire is still being celebrated in an annual ceremony at Westminster Abbey which has some strong Hunger Games vibes
Well what a coincidence; That cotton-made nitrocellulose you need to make gunpowder for artillery shells (for #ukraine) suddenly stopped shipping in from #china.
Good thing Finland and Sweden can make this type of #nitrocellulose from wood, too. Now we just need closer technological co-operation to deliver the shells Ukraine needs to stop the #russian neo-#empire.
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Washington readies thousands of bombs for Israel despite ‘push for truce’
The White House is preparing a package worth 'tens of millions of dollars' of MK-82 bombs, KMU-572 JDAMs, and FMU-139 bomb fuses..#Empire..#Israel..#Gaza..#crimehttps://thecradle.co/articles-id/23474
So let me see if I've got this right. There is an "International Rules-Based Order". The key institution which underpins this order is the #ICJ. The ICJ has ruled that #Israel must take action to prevent #Genocide in #Gaza. The main agency succouring those at risk of genocide in Gaza is #UNWRA. In an apparently-coordinated demonstration of contempt for the ICJ ruling, a number of key nations have withdrawn financial support for UNWRA, citing unproven allegations against some staff. >>>
Imo the so-called International Rules-based Order is a complete misnomer! It’s a lie! It’s a joke! It’s a euphemism for “Obey the Imperium or else we will destroy your country and murder millions of your people through sanctions and, if that doesn’t work well enough, we’ll find an excuse (by fair means or foul) to bomb the shit out of you”!
Want to know how the #US#military helped to undermine Americans' feeling that no health insurance/ruinous costs, zero paid vacation time, zero maternity leave are God given freedoms?
I worked in #HR at one of the outposts of the #empire. One of our jobs was to familiarize US mil and civilian supervisors with the labor laws of the host country.
The effects on 20-something junior US personnel from some backwater state were nothing but stunning.
Finally got some detailed images of my TIE pilot gear - my photographer bailed so I took these with tripod and remote shutter #StarWars#TiePilot#cosplay#Empire
"The Romans conquered the world through seriousness, discipline, organisation, continuity of vision and method; through the conviction that they were a superior race, born to command; through the well-considered, methodically calculated use of the most ruthless cruelty, cold perfidy and the most hypocritical propaganda, employed simultaneously or in turn; by an unshakeable resolution to always sacrifice everything to prestige, without ever being sensitive either to peril, or to pity, or to any human respect; by the art of decomposing under terror the very soul of their adversaries, or of putting them to sleep with hope, before enslaving them with arms; finally by such skilful handling of the crudest lie that they have deceived even posterity and are still deceiving us. "
Simone Weil, in "Some reflections on the origins of Hitlerism". @history
"Life expectancy at birth in Roman Egypt was just 27.3 for women and 26.2 for men."
"As the empire expanded, the Romans took the show—including all their diseases—on the road. In every location, “The empire’s arrival led to the hasty construction of the first town, in Roman style, with baths and aqueducts, drains, heating systems, and latrines. Despite the amenities, a reasonable answer to the question ‘What have the Romans ever done for us?’ might have been ‘Got us sick.’ Mortality rates went up.”
The Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time (www.empireonline.com)
Empire's list of the 50 greatest science fiction movies of all time, from 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Matrix to Blade Runner.
Spaceman Review - Empire magazine (www.empireonline.com)
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