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?

American corporate personhood was used to justify their unlimited spending in elections as protected speech under the First Amendment (Citizens United).

Youre right a legal designation is probably fine but when your adherence to capitalism is so dogmatic you give democracy the middle finger…

That’s fairly radical he probably just believes that corporations aren’t people.

In America corporations are people.

All for profit corporations have one simple goal which is to increase their parofits.

The governments that will allow them to do that are when Republicans are in charge.

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?

Not sure who Leif Erikson is (Columbus’ arch nemesis?) but it is Indigineous Peoples day so doing something positive for any of the many tribes that were stewards of this land for the 30,000 years is also worth considering!

Yeah that’s a better way to put it. It leads to a lot of frustrating confrontation in the emergency department but you’re right that there is a consensus on the medical side.

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

Lot of controversy around this in the medical community. In that you can’t overdose on fentanyl from contact. Cops continue to insist otherwise though.

There are certainly cases where cops are doing the drugs but then blame physical contact in order to save face or cover for each other.

This sounds like regular flavor imperialism. Though there is a lot of overlap. With fascism you need an internal enemy which in this governments case is illegal immigrants.

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.

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

He’s the embodiment of their idea of the American dream. Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, accruing unlimited wealth and living a life with no accountability. They want to be him.

They don’t want a world with no kings. They want to be king.

they specifically deserve not to work another day in their life, but whomever they believe to be lesser must work to enrich the more worthy.

Isn’t this the universal end goal of capitalism? For temporary embarassed millionaires to achieve dynastic royalty through capital and then pat themselves on the back for stimulating the economy every time they pay someone to do their drudgework?

Capitalism promotes this desire in all people. Its not about living a good life with honest work. Wealth accumulation becomes life’s purpose.

Let’s build a society that worships at the altar of capitalism and then be suprised when people prioritize capital over moral integrity.

Saudi just increased the offer until people accepted. Gillis said they immediately doubled the offer when he declined.

Many people like to pretend they don’t have a number but even those that are living comfortably often do.

If someone dangled a million in front of you to do work that’s essentially a repitition of or derivative of work you’d previously done, how many people do you know would say no to that?

Now these are comedians who are living very comfortably which makes it feel more wrong. But let’s not act like we can’t understand or relate to why they’re doing it. Every single one of us has people in our social circles would take an offer like this.

We all have our hard lines morally, no doubt. But I’d argue the majority of people would accept an offer of x million dollars to do a show in Saudi Arabia or anywhere else, if they didn’t think their own safety was at risk.

Perhaps we need to think about how this reflects on society as a whole, and the values we hold, rather than getting angry at any particular devotee to our extractive capitalist systems which uphold greed over moral good.

Probably good that the Archbishop who failed to act on an abuse scandal left.

The church moved him to Zimbabwe where he continued to abuse boys for decades. He even killed a 16 year old boy in 1992.

So while this is a “progressive” move, we should remember the big picture.

Let’s not forget that institutions have a tendency to put women on a glass cliff. They put women in leadership positions during difficult times so they can quietly fix underlying issues while also acting as a scapegoat, then they replace her with a man once back on track. They also get the try and distract from bad publicity by extolling “progressive values”.