"When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in society, over the course of time they will create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it"
It’s hard to know what‘s satire and what’s reality anymore…I can entirely imagine her doing that. Wasn’t it Patel that found the solution to the immigration problem?: a giant wave machine near the shore to keep back small boats from landing!🤪
One of the Key principles of Imperialism is to keep the colonies underdeveloped (or more precisely, overexploited). It's called "unequal exchange relations".
Thus the products of colonies (resources) are consistently undervalued, and the products of metropolis (Tech/Industrial goods) are consistently overvalued.
That's why the Brits destroyed the textile industry in India - they forced them to import the textile from Britain, where capitalists were already in the crisis of overproduction.
Observe the capital flows of the British Empire. Wealth generated from the colonies of Asia, India, Africa, and Caribbean were used to solely develop North America, Europe, and Oceania.
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Also, the metropolis appropriates the largest part of product's added value created by the colonies.
"In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for our goods. "
In 1932, the "distinguished" British statesman Lloyd George wrote in his diary: 'We have to reserve the right to bomb nig*ers. "But No of course our foreign policy is not racist!"
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See Declassified UK: "The general who terrorized the colonies General Sir Frank Kitson, who has died aged 97, saw the people of Kenya, Malaya and Northern Ireland as little more than laboratory rats to test his brutal military theories." (2024):
And don't forget that the main ideologist of German Nazi - Alfred Rosenberg - was greatly inspired by the "ideas" of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British "philosopher" and founder of "scientific racism"
I have it that the late Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glaonton (1914-2003), who coined snazzy academic phrases like the "invention of tradition" as the Regius Professor of Modern History penning biographies of Adolph Hitler and swallowing the Hitler diaries hoax said in 1965: "There was no history in Africa prior to the coming of the white man. What you had, rather, were the meaningless gyrations of barbarous peoples in remote and unimportant parts of the world."
I am reasonably confident Roper was not alone in his appalling academic racism.
Doubtless Suella, by the way, was endeavouring to raise her very lack lustre profile with the clueless mob as a potential Reform leader in case NF exits.
Agreed.When Britain in the shape of the East India Company took over India from the Mughals Indias GDP was approximately 25 per cent of the global http://total.It also had one of the highest literacy rates in the whole world.When Britain left in 1947 GDP was down to 4 per cent and the literacy rate was down to 16 per cent.Braverman needs putting in a padded cell.
The East India Company was the first Private Transnational Corporation that got bigger (in terms of Capital) than the original country it came from.
This Corporation was in fact the early prototype of Global Fascism (Imperialism), formed by the merger of State (Queen) and Corporate (Private wealthiest merchants) power and capital. The first so-called "too big to fail" Corp that was bailed out by the State back in the 18th century..
The late Eduardo Galeano had it that when it was realized the Royal Navy could not bombard landlocked Bolivia, that Latin American state was simply erased from maps.
As you know, AI has it that the only 3 nations never to have a U.S. military presence of some kind, or one or another form of intervention, are Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Bhutan... The late Chalmers Johnson wrote of a veritable "Empire of Bases," namely something like 750 to 800 installations (perhaps fewer in the GCC of late?) in some 80 to 84 nations...
American Imperialism saw that the Spanish Empire was quickly loosing control over some of its Latin American colonies and swooped in to take them over (Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and later Hawaii, American Samoa, Panama canal and the Virgin Islands).
Suella Braverman, ancestrally of Goa, India, descendant of parents from British territories of Kenya and Mauritius, says her forefathers' descendants there now owe me. Is Irony her middle name?
The UK is sliding into managed decay: stagnant wages, rising poverty, collapsing councils, and an NHS buckling under record waits. Infrastructure is fraying, regional inequality is widening, and post‑Brexit fragmentation still drags on investment. Crime, homelessness, and social disorder rise as public services shrink. It’s not collapse — it’s slow rot driven by decades of underinvestment and political drift. What is she talking about look at what has become of uk
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
West’s most powerful weapon isn’t missiles — it’s mind control. Western governments and media run a nonstop psychological operation: fear‑scripts, moral theatrics, and emotional pressure dressed up as “democracy.” NATO, Washington, and Europe using manipulation to steer public opinion, manufacture enemies, and keep populations obedient. The battlefield isn’t just Ukraine or Russia — it’s people’s minds, softened by repetition and drowned in curated outrage.
So true. But assuming someone political survives our war with Russia we can at least look forward to China and N Korean wars...and then perhaps war with India which has more than enough historical grievance.
"Fascism is just Imperialism trying to save itself"
"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
These rich right wing scum are happy to sell our public services to other countries yet piss and shite about anyone from other countries coming here because we've destroyed their homelands. The twisted logic of the monied!
Oh don't be so fucking ridiculous. It's 'rich right wing scum' who've imported millions of people, in order to drive wages down. And the only homelands being destroyed are the ones in the West.
Really. So not Palestine? not Yemen? not Iran? They aren't being destroyed. The West has it so much harder. You sound like you live in some shitty little provincial town where there are no immigrants. People who live among them realise we have far more in common with them than with some rich cunt who thinks the working class are here for their use and abuse. So who do you think is pushing the anti-immigration shtick? Not politicians and media barons? They are the rich cunts I'm referring to. Yes they invited them over - in Britains case because they were British or they've bombed their country, in Americas because they've bombed them or put sanctions on them to try to bring down their government - but then when they think it will win them votes (or they want to sell papers by turning stupid white people against their neighbours) they think they can just tell them to get out. Only cowards punch down, and blaming immigrants is the most extreme form of punching down.
Good thing this is merely satire 100% based on historical fact, and the majority of humanity can't be bothered to actually bleed for real justice - I mean, we wouldn't want the world to be a better place or something.
Yeah, I wasn't totally pleased with that phrase either.
I meant it either in the sense of giving up the modern conveniences that are fueling the corrupt scumbags that are making the world a much shittier place or actually putting their lives on the line in wars (ideally to protect the innocent) or dangerous and/or unpleasant jobs that so few people seem to want to do - you know, do the hard work to make a better world.
Just ignore it, the poor lonely little 'bot - it might be a person, but not someone willing to engage with us in a good-faith manner, so I will ignore 'em.
"So between 1952 and 1960 the British authorities built a network of detention camps where prisoners were raped, tortured, castrated, mutilated, and in some cases burned alive. British troops even posed proudly for photographs beside severed heads on stakes. Villages were destroyed as collective punishment and hundreds of thousands of civilians were ethnically cleansed. When awkward questions were later asked, thousands of classified documents were simply destroyed. Only through stubborn legal battles did the truth eventually surface."
Wait a minute, the IDF was practicing that long ago...??
The IDF are fast learners. After using the Black and Tans to torture and kill my ancestors, Britain sent those same exact terrorists, literally the same individuals, to Palestine to do the same thing to the Palestinians the Brits were there to “protect”.
Yup, such "how to win friends and influence people" measures as destroying civilians' homes for things having nothing to do with them directly were practiced by the Brits, noticed by the Zionists, practiced to this day by the IDF. The thread of course being the Brits, a Western power, treating the indigenous population as subhuman; the Zionists, thus Israelis, mostly from Eastern Europe, thus also Westerners, also with the same sense of entitlement, the Palestinians aren't deserving of life. Great legacy for Western civilization.
Loic As Frankie Boyle said - cricket is a homosexual martial art. I remember as a kid going to a park in a posh part of London and seeing twats playing cricket and thinking "why is it in slow motion, what the fuck's that all about?".
Cricket is the worst and cruellest torture ever invented by The British Empire. Being forced to listen to commentary about some fellow bowling a maiden over was unspeakable, and some other fellow being caught in slips was most embarrassing to my tender girlish sensibilities. While growing up and being required to listen to "the cricket" on the car radio during unavoidable Sunday drives with my parent the long interminable and suspenseful radio silences punctuated by the thwack of willow against leather was excruciating. I would like reparations paid to me personally.
"When Plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men in society, over the course of time they will create for themselves a legal system that authorizes it, and a moral code that glorifies it"
-Frederic Bastiat
Bastiat knew his onions when it came to the abuses of the Plutocracy. They are at it worldwide on a massive scale.
Correct 💯
It’s hard to know what‘s satire and what’s reality anymore…I can entirely imagine her doing that. Wasn’t it Patel that found the solution to the immigration problem?: a giant wave machine near the shore to keep back small boats from landing!🤪
"Political satire became obsolete when Henry Kissinger was awarded the Nobel peace prize."
-Tom Lehrer
My favourite Tom Lehrer line is "Soon we'll be sliding down the razor blade of life" (from Bright College Days). A brilliant satirist.
National Brotherhood Week is my favorite song of his. https://youtu.be/aIlJ8ZCs4jY?si=D-lTKqjRYfMwntbY
ouch
She actually said it:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7XvoQTVmtbQ
Nothing surprises me about that monster
In fact, there’s a special term for ppl like her - "Comprador bourgeoisie"
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Malcolm X explains:
youtube.com/shorts/sMy-ukNNK-g
PERFECTION
The YouTube post is of the Wrong Home Secretary
One of the Key principles of Imperialism is to keep the colonies underdeveloped (or more precisely, overexploited). It's called "unequal exchange relations".
Thus the products of colonies (resources) are consistently undervalued, and the products of metropolis (Tech/Industrial goods) are consistently overvalued.
youtube.com/watch?v=ATKBU32rWGs
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That's why the Brits destroyed the textile industry in India - they forced them to import the textile from Britain, where capitalists were already in the crisis of overproduction.
sgbgatelier.com/world/2019/11/21/5-ways-imperial-britain-crippled-indian-handlooms
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Observe the capital flows of the British Empire. Wealth generated from the colonies of Asia, India, Africa, and Caribbean were used to solely develop North America, Europe, and Oceania.
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Also, the metropolis appropriates the largest part of product's added value created by the colonies.
That's the essence of Imperialism.
youtube.com/watch?v=PlAN5-Lk0hw
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"In order to save the 40,000,000 inhabitants of the United Kingdom from a bloody civil war, we colonial statesmen must acquire new lands to settle the surplus population, to provide new markets for our goods. "
-Cecil Rhodes
👏👏👏 The most tragically undervalued product of the colonies and proxy states being human labor.
I'm not sure the superior white race ever thought of colonial labour being "human". After all we are talking slaves aren't we?
In 1932, the "distinguished" British statesman Lloyd George wrote in his diary: 'We have to reserve the right to bomb nig*ers. "But No of course our foreign policy is not racist!"
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See Declassified UK: "The general who terrorized the colonies General Sir Frank Kitson, who has died aged 97, saw the people of Kenya, Malaya and Northern Ireland as little more than laboratory rats to test his brutal military theories." (2024):
declassifieduk.org/the-general-who-terrorised-the-colonies
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And don't forget that the main ideologist of German Nazi - Alfred Rosenberg - was greatly inspired by the "ideas" of Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British "philosopher" and founder of "scientific racism"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Houston_Stewart_Chamberlain
I have it that the late Hugh Redwald Trevor-Roper, Baron Dacre of Glaonton (1914-2003), who coined snazzy academic phrases like the "invention of tradition" as the Regius Professor of Modern History penning biographies of Adolph Hitler and swallowing the Hitler diaries hoax said in 1965: "There was no history in Africa prior to the coming of the white man. What you had, rather, were the meaningless gyrations of barbarous peoples in remote and unimportant parts of the world."
"Until the lion learns to write, every story will glorify the hunter"
-Old African proverb
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"The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
"The past was erased, the erasure was forgotten, the lie became the truth."
- George Orwell
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How The British "Elite" Re-Wrote World History:
youtube.com/watch?v=kfqHMTBgOlM&t=635s
I love that.
I am reasonably confident Roper was not alone in his appalling academic racism.
Doubtless Suella, by the way, was endeavouring to raise her very lack lustre profile with the clueless mob as a potential Reform leader in case NF exits.
Agreed.When Britain in the shape of the East India Company took over India from the Mughals Indias GDP was approximately 25 per cent of the global http://total.It also had one of the highest literacy rates in the whole world.When Britain left in 1947 GDP was down to 4 per cent and the literacy rate was down to 16 per cent.Braverman needs putting in a padded cell.
The East India Company was the first Private Transnational Corporation that got bigger (in terms of Capital) than the original country it came from.
This Corporation was in fact the early prototype of Global Fascism (Imperialism), formed by the merger of State (Queen) and Corporate (Private wealthiest merchants) power and capital. The first so-called "too big to fail" Corp that was bailed out by the State back in the 18th century..
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http://youtu.be/NW8-Hv2wF-U?t=307
http://youtu.be/UHG9fA5YMVw?t=497
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BTW Boston Tea Party was in fact a protest against the monopoly of the East India Company.
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Only 22 countries have never been invaded by Britain:
http://statista.com/chart/3441/countries-never-invaded-by-britain/
The late Eduardo Galeano had it that when it was realized the Royal Navy could not bombard landlocked Bolivia, that Latin American state was simply erased from maps.
As you know, AI has it that the only 3 nations never to have a U.S. military presence of some kind, or one or another form of intervention, are Andorra, Liechtenstein, and Bhutan... The late Chalmers Johnson wrote of a veritable "Empire of Bases," namely something like 750 to 800 installations (perhaps fewer in the GCC of late?) in some 80 to 84 nations...
American Imperialism saw that the Spanish Empire was quickly loosing control over some of its Latin American colonies and swooped in to take them over (Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Philippines, Guam, and later Hawaii, American Samoa, Panama canal and the Virgin Islands).
youtu.be/F_pxZ-Rl6DM?t=1056
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In 1899, 60 000 US troops invaded the Philippines - a massacre and genocide of women and children, the new “Open Door Policy”.
substack.com/home/post/p-201348278
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The Jamesberg Agreement: DuPont acquired all US territories, Mexico, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, Colombia and Venezuela.
Dupont is the longest-serving military contractor for the United States of America. Since U.S.-British War of 1812
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"United States" to Imperial America:
youtube.com/watch?v=Df4R-xdKvpM
youtu.be/NpjDyhGyjNk?t=817
Suella Braverman, ancestrally of Goa, India, descendant of parents from British territories of Kenya and Mauritius, says her forefathers' descendants there now owe me. Is Irony her middle name?
In fact, there’s a special term for ppl like her - "Comprador bourgeoisie"
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Malcolm X explains:
youtube.com/shorts/sMy-ukNNK-g
"Quick, we need to distract attention from Fuhrer Farage's £5 million ...... time to wheel out Suella"
Cruella?
The U.S. would love to pay our fair share but the national debt has risen so far on borrowing for endless wars that we're insolvent. Sorry, not sorry.
The UK is sliding into managed decay: stagnant wages, rising poverty, collapsing councils, and an NHS buckling under record waits. Infrastructure is fraying, regional inequality is widening, and post‑Brexit fragmentation still drags on investment. Crime, homelessness, and social disorder rise as public services shrink. It’s not collapse — it’s slow rot driven by decades of underinvestment and political drift. What is she talking about look at what has become of uk
"The wealth that's extracted from Imperialism goes into the coffers of the select few, whereas the costs of empire are paid out of the common treasure of the people."
-Thorstein Veblen, 1906
The uk political class has no priority other than the War On Russia
West’s most powerful weapon isn’t missiles — it’s mind control. Western governments and media run a nonstop psychological operation: fear‑scripts, moral theatrics, and emotional pressure dressed up as “democracy.” NATO, Washington, and Europe using manipulation to steer public opinion, manufacture enemies, and keep populations obedient. The battlefield isn’t just Ukraine or Russia — it’s people’s minds, softened by repetition and drowned in curated outrage.
So true. But assuming someone political survives our war with Russia we can at least look forward to China and N Korean wars...and then perhaps war with India which has more than enough historical grievance.
No historical grievance is needed. Just power, domination, and control.
"Fascism is just Imperialism trying to save itself"
"This methodology of justifying wars and exploitation abroad and dividing population at home is built into Imperialism, it's absolutely necessary to justify itself"
-Joti Brar
These rich right wing scum are happy to sell our public services to other countries yet piss and shite about anyone from other countries coming here because we've destroyed their homelands. The twisted logic of the monied!
Oh don't be so fucking ridiculous. It's 'rich right wing scum' who've imported millions of people, in order to drive wages down. And the only homelands being destroyed are the ones in the West.
Really. So not Palestine? not Yemen? not Iran? They aren't being destroyed. The West has it so much harder. You sound like you live in some shitty little provincial town where there are no immigrants. People who live among them realise we have far more in common with them than with some rich cunt who thinks the working class are here for their use and abuse. So who do you think is pushing the anti-immigration shtick? Not politicians and media barons? They are the rich cunts I'm referring to. Yes they invited them over - in Britains case because they were British or they've bombed their country, in Americas because they've bombed them or put sanctions on them to try to bring down their government - but then when they think it will win them votes (or they want to sell papers by turning stupid white people against their neighbours) they think they can just tell them to get out. Only cowards punch down, and blaming immigrants is the most extreme form of punching down.
Good thing this is merely satire 100% based on historical fact, and the majority of humanity can't be bothered to actually bleed for real justice - I mean, we wouldn't want the world to be a better place or something.
"Bleed for real justice". What are you, ten years old?
Yeah, I wasn't totally pleased with that phrase either.
I meant it either in the sense of giving up the modern conveniences that are fueling the corrupt scumbags that are making the world a much shittier place or actually putting their lives on the line in wars (ideally to protect the innocent) or dangerous and/or unpleasant jobs that so few people seem to want to do - you know, do the hard work to make a better world.
Are the people demanding reparations trying "to make a better world"? They sound an awful lot like "corrupt scumbags" to me.
Are you too old to feel anything? Maybe get in touch with your buried feelings.
And what, turn into a hateful anti-semite like you?
Where the hell did that come from?
Right?
Just ignore it, the poor lonely little 'bot - it might be a person, but not someone willing to engage with us in a good-faith manner, so I will ignore 'em.
Lol, you parade your hatefulness while claiming to be the 'compassionate' ones, and you talk of good faith? Such delusion.
"So between 1952 and 1960 the British authorities built a network of detention camps where prisoners were raped, tortured, castrated, mutilated, and in some cases burned alive. British troops even posed proudly for photographs beside severed heads on stakes. Villages were destroyed as collective punishment and hundreds of thousands of civilians were ethnically cleansed. When awkward questions were later asked, thousands of classified documents were simply destroyed. Only through stubborn legal battles did the truth eventually surface."
Wait a minute, the IDF was practicing that long ago...??
The IDF are fast learners. After using the Black and Tans to torture and kill my ancestors, Britain sent those same exact terrorists, literally the same individuals, to Palestine to do the same thing to the Palestinians the Brits were there to “protect”.
Yup, such "how to win friends and influence people" measures as destroying civilians' homes for things having nothing to do with them directly were practiced by the Brits, noticed by the Zionists, practiced to this day by the IDF. The thread of course being the Brits, a Western power, treating the indigenous population as subhuman; the Zionists, thus Israelis, mostly from Eastern Europe, thus also Westerners, also with the same sense of entitlement, the Palestinians aren't deserving of life. Great legacy for Western civilization.
British empire killed 165 million Indians in 40 years:
How Colonialism inspired Fascism:
youtube.com/watch?v=Ob_lIQRAnYM
Your description of British "development-aid" in Kenya during the 1952-60s reads eerily similar to current "development-projects" in the ME.
Could it be, that the direct descendants of those former elitist planners, having exactly the same mind-set are now involved ???... 🤔🤔🤔
Just asking for a friend ... 😉😉😉
How British colonial regime siphoned out $45 TRILLION from India:
youtu.be/Ob_lIQRAnYM?t=1763
youtube.com/watch?v=cH6Cyr-KQOk
Brilliant, again 😊
Agreed on cricket, especially if you’re fielding 😂 or bench warming
Or watching. Or just hearing dull rich twats clapping every dull movement on the pitch.
Movements, I dare say the rest of us mere mortals completely missed
Loic As Frankie Boyle said - cricket is a homosexual martial art. I remember as a kid going to a park in a posh part of London and seeing twats playing cricket and thinking "why is it in slow motion, what the fuck's that all about?".
Cricket is the worst and cruellest torture ever invented by The British Empire. Being forced to listen to commentary about some fellow bowling a maiden over was unspeakable, and some other fellow being caught in slips was most embarrassing to my tender girlish sensibilities. While growing up and being required to listen to "the cricket" on the car radio during unavoidable Sunday drives with my parent the long interminable and suspenseful radio silences punctuated by the thwack of willow against leather was excruciating. I would like reparations paid to me personally.