Haiti has a troubled relationship with slavery, what with being full of slaves who were liberated thanks to the French Revolution and then reenslaved, and then freed themselves, and then made to pay reparations.
This Memorial Day, I ask you to remember the soldiers who died in the Marine Invasion of Haiti a war ::checks notes:: about invading Haiti and reinstating slavery again to build infrastructure for the United Fruit Company.
What's your favourite RCMP scandal, #Canada ? Others can play by adding in fun incidents involving their gendarmerie too.
Once upon a time in Alberta, there was an Albertan farmer who complained about the pollution from a nearby oil site. He complained a lot. He might have even tried bombing them. The oil company didn't like him.
The oil company convinced the RCMP to bomb their infrastructure, which they did, so they could pin it on the farmer. The horsey police did so
Bonus Points: You'd be surprised as the number of times someone at the RCMP thought up the words "let's do a bombing" or "let's pay someone to do a bombing" and everyone stopped, saluted the flag, and declared this a fine tool for use in their arsenal. It's frankly ridiculous. So many times.
How can we take the Inuit, get them to give up their Inuit ways, and make them live in modern settlements? Why not a campaign of assassinating their sled dogs for ::checks notes:: health and safety?
I do not know why police love killing dogs so much, it feels very international.
A thing I find funny about Americans and the American mindset is that they truly believe, if the other guy wins, or the courts decide, all those regulatory agencies will go away.
My brothers and sisters in Christ, they don't really exist right now if you have the money available to play the game. All the fight is just so that the players won't even have to pay the right bribes in the future. Pardon me. Not bribes. Campaign donations and PACs.
Hamas would need to kill at least 25000 more innocent Israeli women and children for there to be equivalence between what it did and what Israel did; oh, and they would need to grow Tel Aviv by about 4 times its natural population, and then starve it and thirst it for six months also. Also while eliminating all its civilian infrastructure.
I hate cleaning up dishes and tools for meal preparation. I hate it so much that I basically live on disposal plates and cutlery, like a monster. I hate it so much I will prepare mostly just slops to eat from one pot or something so I don't have to do anything.
If it takes longer to plan, get, make, and clean up after than it does to eat I don't want any part of it at all.
My partner? She loves to cook. She makes delicious, happy food that is a joy to eat...
I do not understand how this isn't a war against the helot class, at best, or pure and applied ethnic cleansing at worse. It's only important government ministers calling for it, right?
"The IDF did not directly deny accounts of people being stripped of their clothing or held in diapers. Instead, the Israeli military said that the detainees are given back their clothing once the IDF has determined that they pose no security risk."
This is, for sure, the most moral army the in the world, yes sir.
Fantastic there's no power in the West that will turn down the money they make from letting this continue.
I wonder why Canada doesn't actually favour a two-state solution to anything? Wouldn't happen to have anything to do with the layers of amazing settler colonialism, would it?
Just made authentic Southern biscuits for the first time in my life, going so far as to order fancy American flour for the occasion. A little disappointed to discover these are just scones, aren't they? I mean they are good. And my breakfast sausage gravy is divine. I was just hoping for more?
@PatrickoftheG well, then I should assume my scone experiences have not been as good as they could be, which is no great stretch. The only place I ever had ones I really liked was Australia at a conference :)
The fun thing about ethnic/religious nationalism is that it's really trivially easy for politicians to turn normal people into racist shit. Easier if you have the media on your side.
It's basically a cheat code to win elections and works everywhere.