• @Initiateofthevoid@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1916 days ago

        Almost every colony ever: gets oppressed and exploited, fights for independence, gains sovereignty, becomes either a tense ally or a hostile rival to their former empire

        Earthlings: “maybe we should colonize space”

      • Sixty
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        316 days ago

        A planet where no conservatives are allowed. We put them on rockets to the Conservatives only planet.

        • @lenuup@reddthat.com
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          416 days ago

          So you want to send those undesireable people somewhere else? Maybe to conserve your way of living?

          • @traceur301@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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            316 days ago

            If by undesirable you mean I desire instead to keep living, and by conserve my way of living you mean I just get to continue breathing - then yes. They try to kill me, there’s no moral limit on what I can rightfully do in return if they don’t succeed. Including rocket them off to planet conservative before they get another shot.

          • Sixty
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            116 days ago

            If you can’t tell I’m joking in this stupid fantasy scenario…

    • @abies_exarchia@lemm.ee
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      1216 days ago

      Also the whole industrialization, privatization, and rise of capitalism thing in Europe that led to successive waves of emigrants leaving or being coerced from their homelands. I think in general people don’t leave their communities and families without some kind of direct or indirect violence.

    • @Emerald@lemmy.world
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      516 days ago

      Also homesteads weren’t exactly a great place to be. No infrastructure and tornado heaven. People lived there because it was their only choice.

    • @Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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      416 days ago

      I mean if it would’ve been empty land it could’ve worked likes this. I don’t think genocide is a necessary part of it