balance8873

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[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

I always use a syringe to get the condiments into the doggo

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (7 children)

My point was simply that humans have been doing slavery for...pretty much as long as we have records. And that is in conflict with your view.

You said:

You know that humans lived in communal societies for a long fuckin time before all the bullshit we know today, right?

So what I'm saying is that for pretty much all of recorded human history we have documented proof that humans enslaved each other. Ie not communal. Slaveholding.

You then implied the ills of today's society are tied to capitalism, an invention which came several tens of thousands of years after we invented slavery. Ie humans were shit to each other and abused each other in horrible ways long in advance of capitalism coming onto the scene.

There may not be capitalism in human nature, but enslaving people we view ourselves as being inferior to us is pretty much as human as apple pie.

Hopefully this makes more sense.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

But it's still our best guess at something we think we can prove.

I can vaguely recall several stories of fossilized remains which indicate all sorts of horrible things being performed on humans or related by tool users, which seems to imply in pre-history humans were still shit to each other.

So are there counter-examples?

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (9 children)

Where did I say debt and slavery are the same thing?

I saw a half dozen messages in this thread about how humans used to be good or some bullshit, with no backing. I'm responding to that.

Prove your point with historical data or don't, but don't argue about some unrelated topic.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Wow that's an interesting leap. So before we continue can we clarify: are you defending slavery (pre-triangle)? Are you saying it's actually a good thing? I really need to know.

If so, your opinion no longer is relevant to any conversation.

If not, why are you bringing up the British/dutch slave system? It doesn't particularly matter that stomach cancer is worse than colon cancer.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

When was this? How good are the records from this time? Seems like for at least the last 12000 years (biblical era) we were for the most part miserable, diseased, and exploitative

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 3 weeks ago

I mean it's possible. I think Luigi either wanted to get caught or the planted evidence story is true.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

What do you mean not allowed? Just go do it. Defense is by it's very nature much much harder than offense. You could probably kill a few CEOs with $1000 and some travel expenses. Just go do it if you think it's so important to bash heads in.

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (16 children)

And slavery isn't capitalism? Or is that cooperative because the slaveholder says "I have a knife and will kill you" and the slave says "I don't want to die" so it's mutual collaboration where the slave doesn't die but also is a slave?

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 0 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

I mean at the time the concept of psychology was measuring skull ridges to "prove" racial superiority so yeah, he would think that. Because he was completely ignorant of the concept of studying human psychology

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one -3 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (4 children)

😂😂😂

Speaking of not reading books.. holy shit where did you go to school, Florida?

I'll leave you with this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery

Few hundred years 😂😂

[–] balance8873@lemmy.myserv.one 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

So you're saying he forgot to account for the human nature of judging things you haven't seen/read/experienced?

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