China can't keep
Its Hands Clean in Myanmar’s Scam Cities
Ties between organized crime syndicates and Chinese intelligence run deep
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/10/23/myanmar-china-pig-butchering-scams-slavery/
Yea I can’t imagine why anyone thought this dipshit was defending rape…I mean aside from the over half a dozen posts where he defended rape as “not immoral”, literally said “No. In fact, the word "rape"…didn't even exist until the 1800s.” and arguing that being “owned”* wasn’t “horrific”
Complete mystery why people went after him, must be some weird BlueSky thing. 😂
JFC
Perhaps the most interesting thing about the Nacirema people is their insistence that they do not participate in practices of which they clearly do. Equally unusual is the fact that, unlike other sacrificial cultures who raid neighboring tribes for victims, both slaves and victims for human sacrifice are only taken from within the society. In fact, there is a very strong cultural taboo against sacrificing or enslaving those from other tribes.
They are aware of the rituals of human sacrifice in other tribes, but claim such rituals to be inconsistent with their society. Yet their human sacrifice rituals are some of the most elaborate in the world. These rituals are so important that there is a whole part of Nacirema society dedicated specifically to arguing about who should and should not be sacrificed, restraining and feeding the potential victims for the years during which these arguments take place, and ultimately preparing and administering the ritual poison.
This is strangely similar to their approach to slavery. Both human sacrifice and slavery were once a much larger part of Nacirema society. Their human sacrifice rituals now take far longer and happen far less often, but at no point have they ever recognized these ritual sacrifices as such. Meanwhile, the Nacirema do acknowledge that slavery was part of their culture once. During the time when they did recognize their practice of slavery, they did raid other tribes for slaves. Now they follow the same complex ritual for slavery as they do for human sacrifice.
It is strange that, by following this ritual and only choosing victims from within their society, they seem to become incapable of seeing their behavior for what it is.
Maryland to study slavery reparations after lawmakers override Dem governor's veto (Ashley Carnahan/Fox News)
https://www.foxnews.com/politics/maryland-study-slavery-reparations-after-lawmakers-override-dem-governors-veto
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p76#a251217p76
Commission for slavery reparations approved in Maryland | AFRO American Newspapers
https://afro.com/maryland-reparations-commission-study/
A massive monument of General Robert E Lee that once sparked riots in the Virginia city of Charlottesville
is now a pile of melted-down bronze,
artfully displayed in a Los Angeles museum.
Next to the sculpture are barrels of toxic "slag" leftover from the melting process.
Around the corner, there is a massive, graffitied equestrian statue of Lee and Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson
– the two most famous Confederate generals in the US Civil War,
The first Reconstruction
rebuilt freedom and citizenship after the Civil War
—imperfectly, to be sure.
The commitment faded
and with it large parts of the country descended into another century of tyranny.
But the embers of Reconstruction did not fully die out.
The 13th, 14th, and 15th Amendments
—eradicating slavery,
promising due process and equal protection under the law
while also enshrining guaranteed citizenship,
and expandin…
It should be noted that the Nacirema absolutely do kill those outside of their tribes during highly ritualized combat. In fact, they are known and feared by many surrounding tribes for their war-like nature. But the previously mentioned taboo seems to be against the execution of the ritual for either enslavement or sacrifice of outsiders for sacrifice or enslavement within tribal territory. Similarly, the Nacirema will not seize slaves during their war raids to bring within their territory. However, it does seem that the tribute system which the Nacirema impose on other tribes favors slavery.
The Elihcian people even tell stories of a chief who tried to end a slave-like practice among their people and refused tribute to the Nacirema. The chief of the Nacirema send emissaries to plot the murder of great chief of the Elihcian with the strongest nobles who were the largest slave owners. The war chief of the Elihcian, a friend of the Nacirema chief, then took over the tribe, enslaved many and paid even more tribute to the Nacirema chief. Many tribes to the South of the Nacirema have very similar stories.
Strangely, again, the Nacirema do not see themselves as war-like. Rather, they see themselves as peaceful. When talking about war and war-raids, they will even sometimes use a phase that means "maintaining" or "sustaining peace" to describe them.
Again, it seems to be the use of ritual that allows them to declare slavery and human sacrifice as "justice" and to declare war as "peace."
Newsom rejects bill giving descendants of slaves preference in college admissions (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/10/13/newsom-rejects-bill-granting-admissions-preference-to-descendants-of-slavery-00604196
http://www.memeorandum.com/251013/p127#a251013p127
Hegseth Pastor: "Bible Says It's Not Evil To Own People, And Every Christian Should Be Able To Defend" Slavery - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/10/hegseth-pastor-bible-says-its-not-evil-to-own-people/