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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 11/2/23 at 12:26pm

"Would we really be that much worse off if we were part of the United Kingdom?"

Kdogg... how would you answer your own question? I think independence was the right move.

Pulitzer winner Caroline Elkins recently had Legacy of Violence published, I'm reading it now.

 

 A searing, landmark study of the British Empire that lays bare its pervasive use of violence throughout the twentieth century. Sprawling across a quarter of the world's land mass and claiming nearly seven hundred million people, Britain's empire was the largest in human history. For many, it epitomized the nation's cultural superiority, but what legacy have we delivered to the world? Spanning more than two hundred years of history, Caroline Elkins reveals an evolutionary and racialized doctrine that espoused an unrelenting deployment of violence to secure and preserve British imperial interests. She outlines how ideological foundations of violence were rooted in Victorian calls for punishing indigenous peoples who resisted subjugation, and how over time this treatment became increasingly systematised. And she makes clear that when Britain could no longer maintain control over the violence it provoked and enacted, Britain retreated from its empire, destroying and hiding incriminating evidence of its policies and practices. Drawing on more than a decade of research on four continents, Legacy of Violence implicates all sides of the political divide regarding the creation, execution, and cover-up of imperial violence. By demonstrating how and why violence was the most salient factor underwriting both the empire and British imperial identity, Elkins explodes long-held myths and sheds a disturbing new light on empire's role in shaping the world today.

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[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 4/15/24 at 12:44pm

A former president went on trial today.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 4/19/24 at 2:04pm

Jay Lerner-Z said: "A former president went on trial today."

 

LOCK HIM UP!!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 6:04pm

Guilty on all charges.

 

Still not the worst thing a President has ever done, but a day for the history books nonetheless.

[ACL2006]

Posted: 5/30/24 at 8:00pm

LOCK HIM UP ALREADY!!

[Jay Lerner-Z]

Posted: 10/12/24 at 12:41pm

Nobel Peace Prize 2024 awarded to Japan Confederation of A-and-H-Bomb Sufferers Organizations, Niyon Hidankyo. They continue to campaign to rid the world of nuclear weapons. 106,000 of Truman's victims are still alive, and his inhumanity lingers on. I have the utmost respect for these survivors, and hope that one day they succeed in their mission. Congratulations!