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“But it is precisely such unthinking complicity that allows empires to endure. I deed, these imperial structures require it: thousands and thousands of ordinary people, innocent or not, serving— and even sacrificing themselves for— a system many of them rarely question.”
— Jul 11, 2025 01:27PM
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“As the historian Jill Lepore has noted, occupied peoples had “revolted again and again and again,” asking the “same question, unrelentingly: By what right are we ruled?””
— Jul 11, 2025 01:25PM
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this book got me feeling so terrified of scurvy even though i eat fruits and veggies everyday
— Jul 03, 2025 02:50PM
