Thread by @possumbrisbane

So lets think of the lineage of this extreme maniuplative and cruel shit. Lets look at all the European colonial powers (I know more about them) and how they spread their evil perpetual conflict and oppression round the world for the last 500 years, say ......

... after that, one of those places, one of the biggest and most powerful and most extremely conflicted places became independent and has been that way for close to 250 years

... I cant speak for those empires I know less about (China, Japan, Iran, India) etc. But bear with me. Lets go backwards from the European colonials and where they learned their craft of power. To simplify lets say it was the Roman, Ottoman, Greek etc empires. Get me ....

... lets going back shall we (or forwards). I dont think it matters and I dont think it matters which empires/colonies. That sick evil system of power has been around with all empires through history. They all get together and establish their cruel evil psycopathic shit anywhere

... but I'm going to stick to my own culture and limited knowledge. A culture/cultures that established their evil cruel shit in their outposts all over the world. And people need to maintain them. You cannot allow (too much) progress....

... so I imagine its a mixture of natural stuff that happens, as has been observed, but I actually think its sick, intentional and manipulated by the same evil power elites everywhere. And I don't just think its my old country that was the only offender at all

... and one of the way it is maintained by the elite powers is through media. Where else do we get our information. And that has been to ridiulous extremes over the last few years, has it not? But it suits the elites who now control so much, or always did

... and what I hate to say (without any similarity in personality/outlook/ideas/anything) is that I actually first learned about some of this shit from some rather questionnable/tyrannical extreme individuals over the last century. You learn how the world works ...

... about alliances, power bases. But you also learn that some people (with whom you want or claim no assoication) were also fascinated by it and did the most extreme, cruel, disgusting things in their attempts at empire etc. get me

... and people need to be kept dumbed down and mainuplated. From time to time you let there be a bit of (apparent) progress but if it gets too far it has to be held back. But that in turn establishes another form of the same control and conflict does it not. Sick evil psychopathy

So all those sick fucks sat around at their banquets and conferences negotiating whether to be allies or enemies knowing that they could be as cruel as they liked to the millions and billions who suffered, and they could keep their power. I imagine it never changed

But I'm going to limit my examples to one empire I know a little about. They maintained power through merchants dealing with the elites in different places to help control and oppress the people they already oppressed. Win - win. They could keep oppressing and deal with merchants

In fact, the reason I went on this rant again today, was I was reading about the 1st and 2nd Virginia Conventions and tea. Same fucking empire. The reason I looked because I was thinking about death and freedom today.

... PS. To all those other major empires around the world and through history please don't get upset at me leaving it out. I'm sure many used similar tactics. I just know less about them

... and the question remains as to how much is just the way groups work (psyhcologically) and how much is engineered and planned and maniuplated. But I'm sure all those powerful people who learn stuff at politcal schools are not just learning nothing

... but think about it. The link between busines and manipulation. From anywhere between establishing/marketing two rival bands to marketing/establishing/exploitimg cruelty around the world on amassive scale