I'm very thankful that my history teacher in high school was indigenous. She told us about the genocides, the wars, the famines, and all the dirty horrible shit that actually happened. And that's just the Canadian shit that happened. She taught about the other stuff too.
Apocalypse, eh? (checks notes) • Got the wars, famines, diseases. • Got the political ruler trying to re-establish control with help from false prophets. (ah, here we go) • Political ruler and his false prophets will be overthrown by judgements and plagues. OK, I’m down for that last one.
Did people in China or even DPRK rise up? Hey they had famines with millions dead! Did it happen? How stupid and privileged can someone be to just assume that would even be likely to happen?
The value of the argument is mainly that there's a perception that the immediate aftermath of big disasters is "everyone for themselves" and that doesn't seem to be universally true. (Famines seem to be the main exception, I think.)
We're living in a dystopia where a regime that bombs hospitals, uses snipers to assassinate civilians, orchestrates famines & has created the highest concentration of child amputees in history, announces it has eliminated a 'terrorist'.
parakeets whose owners could no longer care for them She spent significant money and lots of time on this effort. Me, being much younger, more callow, and a lot more self righteous than I am now, hopefully, was ginning up a screed about how actual people need help and there were famines and wars 2/?
Let's focus on the sociopolitical: A settlement grew to its carrying capacity. Even if the inhabitants were responsible in giving birth to people, outside pressures such as wars or climate upheavals created famines. Then there is a loss of order and the worst of consequences.Let's focus on the sociopolitical: A settlement grew to its carrying capacity. Even if the inhabitants were responsible in giving birth to people, outside pressures such as wars or climate upheavals created famines. Then there is a loss of order and the worst of consequences.
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Revisited Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire last night, and it was aptly pointed out, “There are whole famines that could have been solved with the money that went into this.” Instead we got big monkey robot fist