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Sep 20

My Deep Dive Into The Topic of Slavery:

The claim that "American Slavery" is the "worst" or "most inhumane" form of slavery is a common assertion, often rooted in its proximity to modern Western history and its enduring social consequences. However, a rigorous comparison of Aztec slavery (c. 1300–1521 CE), the Arab Slave Trade (7th–20th centuries), Transatlantic slavery (15th–19th centuries), Spanish colonial forced labor (c. 1521–1821), and Southern chattel slavery (post-1787 U.S.) reveals that Aztec slavery, followed by the Arab Slave Trade, Transatlantic slavery, and Southern slavery, were more inhumane in roughly that order, with Spanish colonial labor closely rivaling the Arab trade. This hierarchy is based on the brutality, moral depravity, scale, duration, and demographic impacts of each system, with Aztec slavery’s theological genocide and mass sacrifices standing out as uniquely horrific. Southern slavery, while undeniably cruel, allowed for family-driven population growth, enabling post-Emancipation resilience, which distinguishes it from the others’ catastrophic demographic losses. This analysis uses objective metrics—duration, scale, brutality index (0–10), moral weight (0–10), demographic impact, and estimated total deaths—to evaluate each system’s inhumanity.

Aztec Slavery (c. 1300–1521 CE)

Duration: Approximately 2.2 centuries, spanning the pre-coalition period (~1300–1428) of Tenochtitlan, Texcoco, and Tlacopan, and the Triple Alliance period (1428–1521), which formalized the Aztec Empire.

Scale: An estimated 0.2–1 million individuals were enslaved. Pre-coalition (~1300–1428), the three city-states enslaved ~35,000–170,000 (Tenochtitlan: ~10,000–50,000; Texcoco: ~20,000–100,000; Tlacopan: ~5,000–20,000). Post-1428, the Triple Alliance enslaved ~0.1–0.5 million, including war captives, debt/crime slaves, and tribute slaves from subjugated groups like Zapotecs and Mixtecs, within a Mesoamerican population of ~5–25 million.

Brutality Index (10/10): Aztec slavery was unparalleled in its brutality. The Triple Alliance intensified practices like heart extraction, decapitation, and cannibalism in human sacrifices, often preceded by psychological terror (e.g., captives as ixiptla-divine embodiments for sacrifice). Raids, such as the Flower Wars or attacks on Cholula, involved massacres that wiped out communities. Pre-coalition practices were less intense (~8/10) due to smaller scale but included similar rituals.

Moral Weight (10/10): The theological justification for self-enslavement (citizens via debt, crime, or famine, e.g., 1450s) and genocidal raids against rivals (e.g., Huastecs) reflects extreme moral depravity. The cultural normalization of mass murder as a divine necessity to sustain the cosmos (e.g., appeasing Huitzilopochtli) sets Aztec slavery apart as uniquely evil.

Demographic Impact: Entire communities were erased through sacrifices and massacres, with no recovery for victims. The Aztec Empire’s tributary system strained Mesoamerica’s population, targeting rival groups for extinction.

Estimated Total Deaths: ~0.825–3.5 million. Pre-coalition (1300–1428): ~125,000–500,000 (Tenochtitlan: 50,000–200,000, ~500–2,000/year; Texcoco: 50,000–200,000, ~400–1,600/year; Tlacopan: 25,000–100,000, ~200–800/year; sacrifices and minor massacres/labor). Triple Alliance (1428–1521): ~0.7–3 million (sacrifices ~0.2–2 million, ~20,000/year, e.g., 1487 Templo Mayor 4,000–84,400; massacres/labor ~0.5–1 million, ~5,000–10,000/year).

Why It Ranks Highest: Aztec slavery’s concentrated brutality, driven by a theological imperative to sacrifice citizens and captives, combined with genocidal raids, makes it the most inhumane. Its per capita devastation (~0.825–3.5 million deaths in a 5–25 million population) is unmatched, even by systems with higher raw tolls.

Spanish Colonial Forced Labor (Mesoamerica, c. 1521–1821)

Duration: ~3 centuries.

Scale: ~5–10 million, primarily indigenous with some Africans, through encomienda and repartimiento systems, which adapted Aztec tribute and slavery structures.

Brutality Index (9/10): Harsh labor conditions (e.g., 16-hour shifts in silver mines), physical punishments, and disease amplification (smallpox, ~90% mortality in some regions) caused immense suffering. While lacking Aztec-style mass sacrifices, the scale of exploitation was vast.

Moral Weight (9/10): The Spanish exploited Aztec tribute systems under a Christian guise, using forced baptisms and labor to extract wealth, revealing profound hypocrisy. This adaptation of indigenous practices for colonial gain adds to its moral depravity.

Demographic Impact: Indigenous populations collapsed from ~25 million (1519) to ~1 million (1600), driven by disease, overwork, and violence. Partial recovery occurred through mestizo populations.

Estimated Total Deaths: ~10–20 million (1–4 million direct from labor/violence, the rest disease-related).

Why It Ranks High: The sheer scale of deaths, amplified by disease and exploitation of Aztec systems, makes Spanish colonial labor catastrophic. Its moral weight is slightly below Aztec due to less intentional genocidal intent but remains high for its hypocritical Christian framework.

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Sep 8

Did you know that Elon Musk directly enabled ~4,880-16,550 Ukrainian casualties? "How?" One may ask, it's when you provide a service that becomes essential and then disable it during a crucial offensive. Welcome to Elon Musk, Starlink, and its effect on Ukraines Counter-offensive

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Sep 7

Exposing the Reality of Zionist Propaganda: A Historical Analysis of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1920–2025):

Wake up, the Israel-Palestine conflict isn't some tragic "dispute" as spun by Western media hacks. It is a ruthless, century-long colonial siege of Palestinian-

sovereignty, fueled by Zionist terror, colonial betrayal, and a propaganda machine that crushes truth under lobby cash and silenced dissent. From Ottoman leases exploited like cheap real estate to today's ICJ-condemned occupation, that tears through the lies, and challenges-

those in power who normalize genocide while preaching "democracy." The silence isn't fair, it is complicit and is a direct threat to global justice, economic stability, and the very aspect of human freedom and rights. We must not let these propagandists win, more of the public-

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Sep 1

Online/Gaming "Toxicity" censorship is just authoritarian, liberal extremist censorship. If you don't like what's said. Mute, ignore, and move on. If it's actually serious mute, report, ignore, and move on. That simple, drop it, it's online.

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Aug 27

Fuck Israel's current government. Fuck @netanyahu Fuck @xai Fuck @elonmusk and Fuck @realDonaldTrump and all other puppets for pro-Western/Israeli propaganda.

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Aug 22

@infolibnews Defend lies with more lies, "The starved children, the pictures of starved children turn out to have cerebral palsy or other congenital diseases that leave them emaciated, and Israel is, of course accused of starving children."

@infolibnews "The algorithms" Meanwhile, Xai and all big tech are pro-Israel narrative formers, while Elon is a Zionist.

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