for people who don’t know what’s happening in congo, here is a good thread explaining the abuse people of congo are experiencing daily.
if you care about palestine’s genocide, i believe you should care about congo’s genocide too.
since the thread is gone i’d recommend reading this instead: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/apr/11/rwanda-militias-drc-goma
thank you msilverstar!
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I'm sooooo obsessed with stories where in order to do something that could in any way be seen as Right a character has to renounce being one of The Good Guys™. Like thinking about stories like The Terror and Ravenous where the (human, I'm not counting The Weather and Big Demon Bear That Eats Colonisers) antagonists are doing exactly what the protagonists have been instructed, ordered, conditioned to believe is the correct thing to do. Hickey wants to rule this space at the expense of any life, consumes his fellow men for his own gain, wants to either kill or master the spirit of a land and a nation of people who deserve to be free just like anyone else - he wants to do exactly what the Admiralty does, assert British colonial rule over this area of the Arctic, and at the end of it the only Right-seeming choice for Crozier to make is to walk away from his chance to return home and to use his last words to try and banish the British forces from there. The same with Ravenous - Ives explicitly states his plans are basically to further westward expansion, to pick out the fittest of the colonial forces and make a society of superhumans who deserve to live by destroying others, and Boyd has to stop him despite that being his own mission all along within the military both in Mexico and at Fort Spencer. Its why characters like Tozer and Hart become so interesting too because, like, from all they've been taught? From everything they've seen from their senior officers, and from the society they live in overall? These guys are right. The real hero (used... extremely loosely) was always what they'd been led to believe was villainy. Its soooo delicious as a narrative structure
Ted + protecting people with his army men
bonus:
“Why don’t you guys just get the fuck over it ” - Becky voice .
“Why are you resisting ? Be peaceful .”
Don’t ever let this post die . *Good history Twitter pg to follow *
Evil… hell is too good of a place for these crackas and they descendants…
Leopold famously said when he was forced to hand over the Congo Free State to the Belgian nation: “I will give them my Congo but they have no right to know what I have done there,” and proceeded to burn archives.
Did y’all know about this?
Religious terrorism of the highest order
Junot Díaz, “The Junot Díaz Episode" (18 November 2013) on Fan Bros, a podcast “for geek culture via people of colors” (via kynodontas)
