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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • Except I think it’s interesting this was not generalizable. The Spanish were looking for people, just different people at first. Cortez for example landed and immediately “employed” hundreds of native people to come up with some wealth to pay off the exploration debt. The friars were specifically there to convert people to Catholicism.

    The British puritans were looking to build their personal Utopia, but the Spanish and others, it seems to me, were looking for a populated colony from the start.















  • This whole rape story is bizarre to me. Like whether it’s real or not really doesn’t affect my view of the situation? Am I weird?

    Hamas kidnapped people and has executed many of them them --that’s a criminal act of terrorism, supported by foreign governments, requiring military response. However, there’s no way to make Hamas’ actions so bad that indiscriminate genocide of Palestinians becomes appropriate or excusable. I’m offended that these stories are given such importance like they are supposed to change my mind about that.

    Feels a little like appealing to some patriarchal emotional bs, like they’re hoping we all fly into a blind rage over it. Maybe Israel is hoping we will pass their guilt off as a “crime of passion”? Feels old-fashioned.