I'm watching part 1 of Exterminate All the Brutes, and I think the thing that is hitting me is that... Colonialism isn't over. It has never been over. We may think colonial rule ended on X date, but it didn't. Because power and resources.

"History is written by the victors," but history isn't necessarily the whole truth. Not even close. Facts tell a different story than most of history.

Also, it is extraordinary to see this as a clear presentation of the back and forth between genocidal propositions. I expect this calm, matter of fact, sedate laying out of facts, to make a lot of white people very uncomfortable. Good.

OH, YEAH: FUCK THIS ILLUSORY BAIT AND SWITCH CAPITALISM THAT IS PREDICATED ON BOUND LABOR THROUGH CHATTEL SLAVERY OR DEBT PEONAGE CONDITIONS.

Is this documentary series going to hit every last one of my, "Hulk Smash," buttons about how whiteness and capitalism are terroristic endeavors? Yep. It really is.

Ep 2."The Irish As Apes." More authentic Irish history in 2 minutes than most Americans get in 12 years. It also has more history of Haiti than any of us get in school. Age of Enlightenment my ASS.

Fuck Andrew Jackson. It's just something that should be said loudly and often.

Ep. 3: we've reached the machinery of death. The Dum Dum bullet being named after the geographical location of manufacturing outside Kolkata, is very depressing.

Oh,and FUCK WINSTON CHURCHILL. The very first corporation established in the US was the Springfield Armory. Can I just hate everything? Because even when you know, you don't really know until you see it all tied together. Imperialism and Capitalism. Just...no.

TIL today: the word genocide did not exist until 1943. The :act: of genocide existed, we had just never named it. Sometimes I think if in 1943 film and movie cameras hadn't existed, we might never have named it. To record a thing at scale, makes it real. It's similar to how -

the advent of social media means we have instantaneous recording and publication if evidence of atrocities. We cannot erase or deny all of that evidence.

This documentary series is making me feel such profound grief. The dehumanizing of people murder for what is at base, profit, the cruelty and pretzel logic to justify slaughter. What monsters we are. "Civilized," nations soaked in blood.

Am I typoing TF out of this thread: yes. Do I recommend this series: Also yes, with the caveat that if you KNOW all of this and you're non-white it may be brutally difficult. If you're white, shut up and learn some history while watching Josh Hartnett be every colonial bastard.