muddi [he/him]

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  • muddi [he/him]@hexbear.nettomemes@hexbear.netjust don't, ok?
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    8 months ago

    Phrases like “American Dream” and “Manifest Destiny” are just euphemisms for genocide and exploitation.

    No other country has concepts like this. They have stuff like mottos and national ideals, but the people have existed long enough in the land to be their own motivation to exist as a nation. The US was created in order to commit genocide and exploit the land. They justify nationhood and citizenship after the fact.

    I think it’s just the Anglo colonies that qualify for this, since European colonies “allowed” indigenous people to persist in some manner. Even then, there’s no eg. Canadian or Australian dream that I’ve heard of. So it’s just American being exceptional, exceptionally genocidal and exploitative.






  • You’re saying the ivory trade involves indiscriminate killing of animals and destroying their bodies totally, including the tusks/horns/etc? Not killing animals with the largest tusks/horns/etc. and selling that ivory?

    Also that the ivory trade would be marginally okay if the hunters and poachers ate a little elephant meat before sawing off its tusks? The elephant is dead no matter what. The reason for its death is the tusks.

    If the goal is indeed to indiscriminately kill animals to reduce their population, the solution isn’t to create a market for artificial selective population pressure. This is why elephants are evolving to have smaller tusks: these are the ones that survive the gaze of ivory hunters.





  • The problem with induction is it works while it works, but when it doesn’t work it doesn’t work. It’s all circular reasoning.

    A hydrated person is hydrated because they hydrate themselves habitually. A dehydrated person is dehydrated because they dehydrate themselves habitually.

    The word water doesn’t even come up in the above. And no consideration of what happens if you strand a hydrated person in the desert: they can’t hydrate, so are they still a hydrated person?