(whatever the poster looks like and wherever they live, their personality is a scrawny nerd in a basement)

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    what about “the war on drugs” makes them say it was a failure in the peculiar institution since the end of the premodern period and the advent of modern capitalism lol? too many sparring partners of a certain melanin configuration not available to participate in all the naturally emergent belligerence?

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      the south thought it perfected slavery since antiquity. it’s supposed that “honor” can be restored or “retvrned” in the 21st century through refounding the colosseums

      FIGURE 4.3 “Dark Artillery; or, How to Make the Contrabands Useful.” Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, October 26, 1861. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.