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✅ Settler colonialism
✅ Apartheid
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/dec/08/yellow-line-that-divides-gaza-under-trump-plan-is-new-border-for-israel-says…

Does anyone know a good book on Danish colonialism in Greenland (and colonialism in the Arctic in general, please nothing limited to the US and Canada) to start reading?
#greenland #denmark #arctic

"These lands weren't empty lands. Even the first small portion was said to be populated by Canaanites. The third claimed area is the lands of
The Kenites, and the Kenizzites, and the Kadmonites, And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims, And the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.
Making a claim — nicely wrapped in religious language... — to lands that others already occupy is the very essence of settler colonialism"…

Colonial nations didn't stop colonialism because they became moral. They stopped because it was untenable. The advancement of asymmetric warfare made it impossible to maintain colonial holdings and those empires crumbled.
The answer was neoliberalism and soft power. Trump had annihilated the financial systems that held that fragile order in place.
#Venezuela will probably end up trying to teach Trump the lesson everyone else learned in the 20th century, but since he's incapable of learning it may very well teach him the lesson Afghanistan taught the USSR.
We'll see how it goes.
It's still possible that we could end up with the US interfering so much that the only people left able to defend space are anarchists. South and Central America actually has some really interesting and advanced anarchist tendencies, so fucking with that could absolutely blow up in Trump (and every other authoritarian's) face.
I hope that the Venezuelan people can take advantage of the situation to get rid of both a shitty dictator and the shitty colonizers who want to replace him.

The fact that so many on the Fediverse remain so uneducated isn’t surprising. It only reveals how deeply bourgeois ideology continues to shape public consciousness, molding perception to serve the interests of capital, especially US imperialism.
Just as it took decades for many to see the war on terror for what it truly was, and even longer to grasp Palestine’s struggle against imperialism and settler colonialism, the same pattern will repeat.
I wholeheartedly reject imperialis…

Me: Isn’t it funny how folks in the West wouldn’t use a time machine to go back in time and stop colonialism?
Random guy from the West on the fediverse: Excuse me, would you like to read my 200-word post on how not all colonialism was bad, actually?

Does anyone know a good primer on Danish colonialism in Greenland?
Some of the statements regarding Greenland and Denmark's role don't sit well with me, but I'd like to know a bit more. (Oh, I don't think a US occupation would be favourable for Greenlanders.)
#Greenland #Denmark

Africa moved as many worlds. It still does.
— Not just rulers, but households, elders, children
— lives lived inside systems of memory, labor, belief, and power that did not require a single name.
So, to talk of Africa as a country is the residue of colonialism — what remains after empire leaves but its grammar stays.

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/guaranteed-panel-mla-2027-�%8…

Colonial Plunder Didn’t Create Capitalism https://jacobin.com/2025/12/colonialism-transition-feudalism-capitalism-history-economy/

#Colonialism

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/115555052555644231
In fact: The "post scarcity" that the western, rich countries feel mostly comes at the cost of the global majority. Colonialism always felt "post-scarcy". Because it forces the cost …

You keep hearing about “European values” but might be confused about what they are so here’s an incomplete list based on historic and current evidence:
• Colonialism
• Slavery
• Ethnic cleansing
• Genocide
• Hypocrisy
Sorry if I missed any.

In one of my first talks about human rights and AI (2022) I used the widespread printing press reference to emphasise that in many cases it supported colonialism.

https://axbom.com/aihr/

This text by Sonja Drimmer really breaks down common printing press misrepresentation. Love it!

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Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/guaranteed-panel-mla-2027-�%8…

I've re-watched the BBC's Fortunes of War, for research purposes. I saw it as a kid but it's much tougher to watch as an adult.
Credit to the writer/screen adaptation, it does show characters criticising colonialism, and from a variety of perspectives.
The polite put-downs the British use when jockeying for position in the class system are also painful to watch.

From The Narwhal
Southern Ontario prairies need fire to flourish, and a place to grow
Alderville First Nation’s Black Oak Savanna is a pocket of a rare ecosystem that was nearly lost to colonialism. Dedicated stewards are bringing it back
Story and photos by Gabrielle McMann

Funny how folks in the West will debate the ethics of going back in time to kill baby Hitler whenever the topic of time travel comes up but no one ever considers going back to stop colonialism.
🤔

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire” https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2026/02/02/guaranteed-panel-mla-2027-�%8…

Condoning everyday fascism for those less fortunate is how you eventually get fascism for all. And this isn’t just about the US. This is a warning for Europe and beyond. Here in Europe, most of our governments have been merrily supporting the US and Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza (and the ethnic cleansing, settler colonialism, and apartheid) as well as previous imperialist invasions of far off lands for oil, happily sharing in the spoils of the suffering. (Not a surprise, really. After al…

Guaranteed Panel MLA 2027: “Global Early Modern Environmental Crises: Modes of Extraction, Settler Colonialism, and Empire”
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This is your regular reminder that you can donate to ease the suffering of those in our fediverse family who are enduring settler colonialism, apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide at the hands of Israel in Gaza.
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
Thank you!
💕

Report Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115530516843421204

If you think Donald Trump is the source of all our problems just wait until you meet capitalism, neoliberalism, fascism, colonialism, organised religion, white supremacy, and the patriarchy.
Donald Trump is a tumour. The cancer is deep set and systemic.