Europeans today: unacceptable, we can’t be colonised… WE’RE WHITE!

[mogleg@mastodon.scot]

@aral European media: Venezuela and Iran needs regime change because they’re evil! Palestine needs to be eradicated because they’re evil and also terrorists!

Also European media: we’re not entirely happy that the methods and policies we’ve supported when brown people were subjected to them now suddenly start affecting us directly! Trump bad!

They’ve manufactured consent all this time. Now chickens are coming home to roost.

[pellechristensen@mastodon.social]

@aral I guess this is what happens when you're rooting for the biggest thug in the schoolyard, and he suddenly changes his focus to ... you.

At least we'll look back at this in ten years and have learned absolutely ... nothing.

History is a deranged game-loop, and the only thing changing between each iteration is the level of technology. Human nature is the unchanging constant.

[ultraverified@mastodon.sdf.org]

@aral

Lol

[flyhigh@universeodon.com]

@pellechristensen @aral People always talking about "human nature" but no one really knows anything about that. The only thing that seems to be nearly universal is that humans are intensely cooperative. Beyond that is terra incognita.

[frantasaur@mastodon.ie]

@aral Ireland stares at you through 900 years of history (and counting). 😅

[iwein@mas.to]

@aral Genghis Khan entered the chat

[aral@mastodon.ar.al]

@iwein Ottoman Empire entered the chat.

[dacig@mastodon.social]

@pellechristensen @aral Europe has been slowly colonized since WWII: bought with the Marshall Plan, enforced by military occupation( Germany, Denmark, Poland...) and cultural capitulation. Nowdays economic, energy and industrial EU policies are led by the US.
Willie EU coyote has just looked down into the void.

[zombiecide@polyglot.city]

@aral tbh yesterday while cleaning and listening to a piece on the fur trade in what's now Canada, I thought "I just have no idea how it is to live in a society with recent experience of being colonised, and I shouldn't try to map the roles and conflicts that causes to my experience of how a society is structured"

less whiteness as identity, more stupid overgeneralisation and thinking you understand the world on my part, at least?

[francina1909@mastodon.uno]

@aral
I find this post so stupid.
You are talking bad about Europe and European people. And I am really curious about where do you live.
So we are just "useful people" to be asked for money help and support for Palestinian people.