#colonizing

[peepingcreek]

Conquerers never send their artillery in first.

Colonialism & The Saltburn Estate

The thing we forget about Colonization, is the first meeting. The Conquerers never send their artillery in first. They always send their brightest anthropologists, with kind mannerisms and willing hearts.

The interactions however genuine, are sullied by who the anthropologist will report back to: the capitalist. The hidden ego running the show from behind the scenes. The individual or entity who fund the work of anthropologists & translators even now. The capitalist will then use the information the anthropologist has gleaned from their adventures and see how best to exploit it. Are they are threat? What resources do they have? Do they have: Iron ore, gold, emeralds, cobalt etc A family in the landed gentry?

The anthropologist then returns to the new culture with their friends, having gained the confidence of the natives. Perhaps some trading deals occur. The two cultures start to interact in ways that are believed to be mutually beneficial. That is until the colonialist makes a final, fatal calculation: The land these people are on, their wealth and resources are for more valuable to me than the relationships (trading and or emotional) I have with the people.

A military convey is deployed and the inhabitants of the land are dispatched. Once the coast is clear, people from the colonizing culture gradually leak into the "new" land and make it their own. The amount of bloodshed that they are aware of varies, but all agree not to dwell too much. A separation occurs. A split in reality.

THE REALITY IS tho, that THIS MODEL OF COLONIZATION WILL HAPPEN INTERNALLY AS WELL. ie Oliver Quick.

Although he didn't know the language of the Ox-bridge elite, he knew how to speak the language of Felix's heart. He knew how to position himself in relationship to the cultural & emotional values that Felix had.

He then reported back to the capitalist: himself

This is the essence of the horror film. Olie was not an innocent bystander to the structure of colonization like the kindly anthropologist. He was fully united with his capitalist shadow in his endevor to take over the Catton fortune.

Ollie colonized the fuck out of the Cattons, and like the errily empty lands of America, Oliver Quick enjoys the spoils of war in the house he did not build, on a land he was not from.

[rvexillology]

Flag of the US after colonizing 10,000 galaxies (1.3 million A.D.)

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: Make the Universe Great Again

[animalworld]

ASIAN GIANT HORNET Vespa mandarinia ©Shutterstock

Beautiful but deadly

Asian Giant Hornets that measure up to 2 inches long have been found for the first time in the US — and researchers are worried they’re colonizing.

The aggressive insects, nicknamed “murder hornets,” can wipe out bee colonies within hours and have stingers long and powerful enough to puncture beekeeping suits.

Beekeepers in Washington have already seen the hornets devastate their hives; Japan attributes 50 human deaths a year to Asian Hornets, which have “teardrop eyes like Spider-Man, orange and black stripes that extend down its body like a tiger, and broad, wispy wings like a small dragonfly,” according to the New York Times.

Researchers are determined to keep the hornets in check.

“This is our window to keep it from establishing,” Washington state entomologist Chris Looney told the Times. “If we can’t do it in the next couple of years, it probably can’t be done.”

[gueststeachingmaterials]

The English have a reputation for invading lots of different countries and then being really annoyed when those people follow them home

Tommy Tiernan

[rvexillology]

Flag of England if it kept colonizing itself but its shitty cause I did it quick for easy karma

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: I believe it's "The flag of England but it's a fractal." Just saying

[rvexillology]

Flag of England but it kept colonizing itself infinitely

from /r/vexillologycirclejerk Top comment: I don't know if it would actually fill out the whole flag, can someone do the math and check?

[belongstolove]

This footage of a 14-year-old boy, Jadallah Jadallah, bleeding to death in the West Bank as soldiers stand by is horrific. But it’s not just horrific – it’s the normal functioning of the system of occupation. This is what decades of military control and deep dehumanization looks like. Jadallah had a whole life, a family, and a future that should have been waiting for him. Instead he was left to suffer unimaginably, alone. He should be alive today. We won’t stop fighting for an end to the occupation and an end to this unjust reality.

ICE and the IDF: The Transnational Nexus of State Control – Scalawag

Palantir represents but one of the many links comprising the military-industrial surveillance connections between ICE and the IDF.