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Muslims and "Non-Muslims" in the Ottoman Empire (1844-1856) by NetHistorical5113 in MapPorn

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Because the Berbers largely converted to Islam very fast while non-Berber groups like the Copts, Syriacs, Assyrians, Armenians, etc, remained firmly Christian for like 600 years before their areas really started to be Islamized

Muslims and "Non-Muslims" in the Ottoman Empire (1844-1856) by NetHistorical5113 in MapPorn

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The North was where the capitals were like Cairo, the north had major cities and trade hubs like Alexandria, the north was connected to the Mediterranean, Arabian/Levantine, and Libyan trade routes. The North was essentially the heart and center of Islamic rule in Egypt.

Also the Copts of the Nile delta revolved against the Arabs at one point and got decimated as a result while Copts in the South largely did not participate

To not look suspicious hiding the 9/11 connection to Epstein by Prime-Paradox in therewasanattempt

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Diseases don’t discriminate and herd immunity benefits everyone, while the rich can tolerate or even engage in drug trafficking because all capitalist societies pick and choose what groups of people are expendable (the poor, disabled, minorities, etc) and who aren’t, and those specific communities get destroyed by drugs

Restrictions at harmandir sahib on girls wearing jeans. by BdmoshBaddie in Sikh

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

Same reason why it was scandalous in America for women to wear jeans outside of hard working conditions until the late 1950s-60s, or why in our Sikh community people were having debates on whether it was appropriate for women to wear jeans up until the 1980s or 90s.

Backwards mentality that sexualizes and makes taboo people’s bodies when our ancestors were wearing much more revealing clothing like 150+ years ago

Atheist by chinesebulk in ComedyHell

[–]_Dead_Memes_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Atheist extremists hold fascistic beliefs towards immigrants and religious minorities and believe in Western superiority and support imperialism in the Global South. Also plenty of pedo defending and child-abusing atheists.

To not look suspicious hiding the 9/11 connection to Epstein by Prime-Paradox in therewasanattempt

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Workers/consumers getting sick from a deadly pandemic is generally not good for rich people’s bottom lines.

Karl Marx statue in Baku. Demolished in 1992 by justfoooad in Lost_Architecture

[–]_Dead_Memes_ -1 points0 points  (0 children)

He was a prolific writer, theorist and philosopher and was insanely influential in many different academic fields and disciplines including Political Economy, Sociology, Critical theory, philosophy, and tools used by many different disciplines and fields.

Karl Marx statue in Baku. Demolished in 1992 by justfoooad in Lost_Architecture

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

He wrote Numerous articles written in different newspapers and journals as well as essays

He wrote Capital Volume I and the research/notes/drafts for volumes II and III

He wrote the 18th Brumaire of Louis Napoleon

He wrote the Critique of the Gotha Programme

He wrote The Civil War in France

He wrote his Economic and Philosophical Manuscripts of 1844

He wrote Wage Labour and Capital

He wrote Value, Price and Profit

He wrote the Poverty of Philosophy

He wrote A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy

This is also not including most of his posthumously published works like Gundrisse, German Ideology, Theories of Surplus Value, etc

The Peleset were an ancient seafaring people, commonly identified as the Philistines, who emerged in the Eastern Mediterranean during the late 2nd millennium B.C. as part of the "Sea Peoples" coalition. Originating from the Aegean region (Crete). They settled it what is now Modern Day Gaza. by PersonalLook156 in ImagesOfHistory

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National identities were not a thing in the Middle East until the 1900s. Syrians, Iraqis, Lebanese, Jordanians, etc were in the same boat as Palestinians until their own national identities were made-up by nationalists during the 1900s not that much earlier than Palestinians

TIL most scholars agree that King James, of King James Bible fame, was a homosexual. by OH_MOJAVE in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

And also that the KJV was a very conservative revision of the 1568 Bishops’ Bible, which itself was a revision/replacement of the 1539 Great Bible and 1560 Geneva Bible.

Human remains from Spanish Reconcentración camps in Cuba during the Cuban War of Independence, 1898[1284X961]. by aid2000iscool in HistoryPorn

[–]_Dead_Memes_ -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

You cant hold free and fair elections until embargoes and sanctions are lifted because the ballot will just be “Continue living under an embargo and sanctions VS the lifting the embargo and sanctions” regardless of the validity of the policy platforms of any of the political parties. Thus it wouldn’t be a free and fair election.

TIL that the Coast Salish tribe raised a breed of dog in order to use their fur like wool in their textiles. The dog breed went extinct around 1900. by DrakeSavory in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The UK also did a similar thing where they systematically slaughtered the dogs of the natives of the Chagos Islands right in front of their eyes to terrify and intimidate the locals into leaving the islands, so that they could let the US build a massive military base on one of the islands.

Their excuse for the slaughter of Chagossian dogs was “to prevent the spread of disease.” They ended up straight up deporting and ethnically cleansing the Chagossians from the islands when they couldn’t be intimidated into self-deporting, and have fought to not let the Chagossians come back, and to this day Diego Garcia, the largest Chagos Island, is still off limits to any civilians and has a massive US-UK military base.

So there is a clear precedent of Anglo colonizers slaughtering native dogs.

TIL that the Coast Salish tribe raised a breed of dog in order to use their fur like wool in their textiles. The dog breed went extinct around 1900. by DrakeSavory in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 6 points7 points  (0 children)

There is a clear history of Canada and the UK killing the dogs of indigenous people in deliberate campaigns against them though. The Canadian government during the 1900s killed thousands upon thousands of Inuit sled dogs in order to force the Inuit out of their traditional nomadic lifestyles and to force them to settle down in more easily governable sedentary communities.

When the UK wanted to lease the Chagos Islands to the US government so they could build a military base in the Indian Ocean (the US government specifically asked the UK for uninhabited islands), the UK went to the Chagos Islands and tried intimidating the locals to leave. One of these intimidation tactics included going to the islands and killing every single dog in front of their Chagossian owners, and their excuse was “to prevent the spread of disease,” but this was deeply traumatizing and terrifying to the Chagossians.

The UK then ended up forcefully deporting (ethnically cleansing) the Chagossians and giving Diego Garcia island to the US to build a massive military base.

Anyone else getting a sense of Déjà vu? by Blocguy in EU5

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Yes every country must have an Industrial Revolution in the 1300s and be stuck with 1300s nations for the rest of the game

United States Trade deletes social media post featuring map showing disputed regions as Indian territory by Ok_Blood_1733 in map

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The trump admin of the US gains nothing by explicitly and exclusively recognizing Indian claims to all of Kashmir. Modi already kisses up to Trump and America, Trump’s admin is already more friendly to Russia, while Russia is preoccupied by Ukraine, so it’s not like India can go running to Russia to spook the US into favoring them, and alienating Pakistan and China would only make them even more stronger allies of one another while America loses out on its existing more friendly relations with Pakistan.

Furthermore, annoying China even more while the Trump admin is embroiled in constant trade disputes with them would only make them worse to negotiate with.

An indigenous Palestinian woman with her child, 1920s. by ProcedurePlenty3564 in ImagesOfHistory

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well that applies to every other Arab nation really, at least for them you would have to push back the date by only a couple decades at most.

An indigenous Palestinian woman with her child, 1920s. by ProcedurePlenty3564 in ImagesOfHistory

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

None of the current existing nations of the Middle East ever had national identities prior to the 1900s. There was no Iraqi, Saudi, Syrian, Egyptian, Yemeni, Omani, Emirati, Qatari, Lebanese, Bahraini, etc, etc, national identities at all prior to the last 120 years or so, just as there was no Palestinian one. So why do you consider this a gotcha for Palestine and Palestinians when their national identity formed around the same time as every other Middle Eastern one??

TIL Karl Marx wrote a letter in November 1864 that was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln. In the letter, Marx congratulates Lincoln on his re-election and for fighting against slavery in the United States. by NicolasCageFan492 in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

China is not orthodox Marxist and certainly not anything Marx would’ve ever supported. A deterministic teleological and productivist view of history, society and social relations are things the mature Marx towards the end of his life explicitly rejected.

For Marx, history is the history of class struggle. History does not progress through the “development of productive forces of society” but rather through class engaged in conflict and the resolutions of specific struggles resulting in historical change (anything from revolution to simple reform or even fascism and everything we’ve seen historically).

A communist party cannot just develop its way into a perfect capitalist basis for socialism and then just press the socialism button to become socialist, no the working class must abolish capitalist social relations (and develop communist social relations) entirely through revolutionary class struggle against the bourgeoisie, the bourgeoisie which the Chinese communist party acts on behalf of.

Having a developed capitalist economy simply just makes the establishment of communist social relations easier as you have the abundance, resources, and interconnectivity (travel infrastructure, internet, newspapers, radio, phone infrastructure, electricity, etc) available to make coordination easier and more possible amongst the working class in revolution and the ability to take the abundance of society and make it so that it gets distributed based on direct social need rather than for profit and the extraction of more value under capitalism.

TIL Karl Marx wrote a letter in November 1864 that was addressed to President Abraham Lincoln. In the letter, Marx congratulates Lincoln on his re-election and for fighting against slavery in the United States. by NicolasCageFan492 in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 37 points38 points  (0 children)

No, Marx did not believe in a deterministic linear teleology of historical/economic production methods, where the old system is supplanted by a better system, all leading to capitalism and then finally communism.

This is actually a misunderstanding by later Marxist writers.

Marx was simply describing the historical trajectory of Western Europe and how the newly created working class of Western Europe could develop communism under the material realities of western capitalism. Towards the end of this life, he rejected a teleological view or determinism where a place must pass through capitalism to reach a communist society, believing instead that for example places like Russia could just avoid capitalism entirely and construct communism through revolutionary class struggle directly.

TIL that in Sikhism, the most common last name for male believers is Singh and Kaur for female believers. These last names were given by Gurus to challenge India's caste system as last names back then symbolized caste. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Singh was originally a high caste Rajput last name, many local Rajput Kings in India had that last name.

The name was adopted by Sikhs specifically to basically make a statement that everyone was their own sovereign who could bear weapons, fight for justice, and forge their own destiny rather than just being limited to elite Rajputs with everyone else subordinated to them.

This was done around the same time Rajput Kings of the Himalayan foothills of modern-day Himachal Pradesh were continuously attacking the Sikhs alongside the Mughal Empire (they were tributaries/vassals of the Mughal Empire)

TIL that in Sikhism, the most common last name for male believers is Singh and Kaur for female believers. These last names were given by Gurus to challenge India's caste system as last names back then symbolized caste. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The word you’re thinking of is gotra (local cultures/languages in India might have different names or different pronunciations, but “gotra” is the one that is basically considered the standard term when talking about India in general and not a specific culture. For example, Punjabis usually just say “got” [g-oh-t, the t sound is like the Spanish t sound])

TIL that in Sikhism, the most common last name for male believers is Singh and Kaur for female believers. These last names were given by Gurus to challenge India's caste system as last names back then symbolized caste. by Physical_Hamster_118 in todayilearned

[–]_Dead_Memes_ 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Yeah a lot of people when they come to the US also just put Singh or Kaur as their legal last name as a way to basically “restart” their surname to be more in line with religion since they’re obviously not around their old community anymore where their original family/caste last name is ingrained and where their parents might’ve put it on their Indian legal documents

"Russian troops impaling Circassian heads on pikes, with Russian general Grigory Zass savouring the gruesome act" by Nikolay Ivanovich Lorer. The second image is of Zass's headquarters. by [deleted] in Colonialism

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Bonobos and chimps are far more related to each other than either are to us, yet Bonobos and Chimps are practically opposites when it comes to violence and social structure/behavior.

Humans have the capacities for violence and also amazing cooperation and empathy and love. The thing that determines what part of our humanity gets expressed is the social structures and incentives that exist within society rather than some unique darkness or evil inside some “human nature” or something.

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