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• Omnipitaph@reddthat.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Is there an empire NOT built on genocide, slavery, and bloodshed? Genuinely curious.

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  • Kellenved@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Empire of the Sun (band) has not enslaved or genocided any cultures or groups I am aware of

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    • astutemural@midwest.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      They haven’t enslaved or genocided any cultural groups so far

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It is like asking is their a country that isn’t fascist. The answer is there is none.

    When people start recognizing that countries are the problem and not the solution we will be one step closer to being free.

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  • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    there’s a “[first half of the name of the restaurant] empire” down the way and they’re only built on bloodshed if that counts

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  • OwOarchist@pawb.social ⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Really hard to build an empire without it.

    Because to have an empire, you have to rule over a lot of people. Many of those people would rather not be ruled by you. If you want to force them to accept it anyway, you’re going to need some of that genocide, slavery, and especially bloodshed.

    Though, I suppose, maybe 2/3 of those aren’t really necessary.

    • Genocide probably isn’t absolutely necessary to empire-building. Definitely still have to kill lots of people, but there’s no particular reason you need to do so on the basis of race or ethnicity. (Though if you count cultural genocide as well, that may very well be necessary to build an empire. Difficult to bring diverse peoples under one banner without suppressing their cultural differences.)

    • Slavery is a big probably. It certainly does help – after all, your growing empire will need lots of labor, and it’s unlikely you can afford to pay the going market rate for it. Plus, if you don’t use slavery, you’ll probably be out-competed by other potential empires that are using slavery and/or slavery-adjacent labor practices. But I suppose it’s not technically absolutely necessary. Theoretically, at least, you could build an empire without slavery.

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• TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Not a science meme. Dear American liberals of the internet,

  Please stop bringing bringing your politics in places it shouldn’t be in. We know your country sucks. Can we please just be autistic and enjoy our science memes?

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• Anarki_@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Braising your own rules. Nice.

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• TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  based and spadix pilles

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Image

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• BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  nerd “A bract is a modified leaf that subtends another organ.”
  “Okay, what’s a leaf?”
  “Uhhhh…”

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• GreenKnight23@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  you mean like all empires in history?

  like England, Russia, Germany, Spain, France, etc…

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• MarriedCavelady50@lemmy.ml ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  It is where all the cool science happens though!

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• sudoMakeUser@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  No shit, who thinks that??

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