#hws sudan

[lord-of-tomatoes]

Faces

[peonycats]

HORN OF AFRICA COMPILATION (+ BONUS SUDAN)

Despite being loaded with work I had the sudden urge to draw out my Horn of Africa OCs (+ bonus Sudan who snuck in there 🤷)

Anyways, I tested out Vegalia’s hair brushes while drawing these guys and I had tons of fun!! I would recommend it to anyone else who wants to try more diverse hair types, even if its just as a reference for you to draw over👍

[labutansa]

The G-Word Podcast Episode 7

“[Listen Here] If you want to learn more about the genocide in Sudan, and how it's a repeating history.” - @/bsonblast on instagram

From their twitter:

“It's about past & present #atrocities & #genocide in #Sudan & #Darfur w / Niemat Ahmadi from the Darfur Women Action Group @DWAG6 & Jehanne Henry @jehannehenry, formerly @hw. Learn about today's largest #humanitarian & #displacement crisis.”

[non-est-ad-astra-mollis-e-terris]

02 September, 2023

i finally finished crime and punishment!!! (it only took 4 months) i have a long weekend (good) but so much work to catch up on (bad, can't enjoy weekend). My first high energy astro set is due next week and I dont have nearly enough done. I feel pretty on top of everything else, though.

to-do:

high energy homework

start math and physics hw

start doing some reading for my thesis since i have an advisor meeting coming up

📚 Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe

🎧 Athena by Sudan Archives (2019)

📺 The Bear - Season 2 (FX)

[jyndor]

a few things because I do largely agree but I want to expand on them a bit.

1. palestine is a multi-ethnic, multi-racial, multi-religious nation. the way we racialize palestinians as brown arab muslims who are separate from israeli jews is a product of white supremacy of course. like all forms of racialization, the purpose of racializing palestinians as separate from jews is to justify the colonization of palestine.

the reason I say this is because I want us to always remember that afro palestinians exist and are often targeted by anti-black racism as well as anti-palestinian racism. also that arab jewish israelis exist as well as non-white jewish israelis - and while they are absolutely victims of racism within israeli society since they are not white, they are also tools of whiteness for the zionist project in that they uphold and perpetuate settler colonialism in palestine (unless they are actively anti-zionist).

denying israel this jewish/arab dichotomy not only pushes back on this racist hierarchy that otherizes palestinians, but it also allows for a real acknowledgment of arab jewish history and other jewish culture(s) that israel has done a lot to homogenize and erase in the service of creating a single "israeli" culture.

2. the us does not seem interested in reeling in its client state in the region, but this has not always been the case (eisenhower, reagan and hw bush all leveraged aid to get israel to do what the us wanted - namely to settle down. even biden did this early on in this genocide to stop israel from going into lebanon, all it took was one call to netanyahu for that to be nixed.)

so yes us corporate and state interests (namely the military industrial complex, us hegemony) are a big part of why the us firmly supports israel in general but this is a particularly unhinged way to show support (and seems antithetical to those interests tbh). but also this is a lot of joe biden's unhinged support of israel which is so extreme that even menachem begin was like... woah this guy is a bit bloodthirsty, wanting to kill women and children if "his" country (the us) as attacked by canada lmao.

so while biden is particularly radical in his zionism, and while I doubt that there are many democratic politicians who are as anti-palestinian racist as he is, he has set the agenda and harris has just said she will not change the policy on israel's genocide. this is a major issue and is also why her swerving to the right on immigration and many other issues is a problem.

3. because now the overton window, what is seen as acceptable in politics, is so far to the right that I don't think we can say that a vote for kamala harris at this point is a vote against fascism.

like maybe not the same level of fascism as trump, but if nothing is going to change on palestine, on a literal genocide (let alone the genocidal language on immigration, let alone the genocides in congo, sudan, etc) then we have fascism already. I don't know that a vote for harris will actually slow the fascist roll because I see the list of marginalized groups that people claim they're voting for shrinking all the time. anti-immigration sentiment is massively higher than it was four years ago when democrats were running counter messaging. now? there's a lot less concern for kids in cages.

we all know this on the left, and I'm not saying that people shouldn't vote for kamala harris. we all need to do what we think is best. the problem is I don't think liberals will actually do the harm reduction, do the rallying together to fight the inevitable fascist takeover. I just don't see any evidence of it.

we do have to do that work though. build networks locally and across the world, organize within communities for mutual aid, learn HOW to organize.

support each other.

cool cool so kamala just said there will be no change in policy re: gaza in her cnn interview with dana bash.

you guys need to understand the harris campaign is swerving to the right on several issues like immigration, fracking and yes palestine, and she is NOT separating herself enough from joe biden.

and she's also said she's open to having a republican cabinet member.

but the dnc couldn't even let a palestinian american pro-harris speaker on stage for TWO MINUTES.

I'm sorry that's unacceptable.

[mars-aries-bedo]

MORE HETAOCS <333 they’re so cute

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

By John Parker 

In his March 2019 article for the Review of African Political Economy, Magdi el Gizouli correctly points out that whichever entity takes control of the Sudanese government, “the IMF men will arrive at the doors of the finance ministry the day after the regime is toppled, with their infamous prescription, ‘your subsidies or your loan!’”

It is up to all of us living in the Western imperialist countries, especially the U.S., to build the necessary solidarity with those oppressed countries forced into making deals with the devils of capitalism, who use the starvation and desperation they create as weapons to ensure the continuous flow of profits into imperialist banks. 

The greater our fight to defend our international family against the ruling-class weapons of sanctions, war and poverty, the more options our international working class and oppressed peoples in the targeted countries will have in their fight for self-determination.

[robotsforcake]

Yanked this off fark, it's not mine:

Author is on twitter as @suitedjustice

I’ve been working on a project to summarize Trump’s first 100 days, but there’s just so much of it that I’ll have to post it in 10-day blocks. I tried to be as crisp as possible here, as again, there’s a lot to work with. If I missed anything substantial, let me know. Also, if you like this, let me know and I’ll post days 11-20 when the time comes.

Day 1: Reads 16-minute inauguration speech he falsely claims to have written himself. In that speech, inadvertently quotes movie villain Bane from Batman. Announces the Alt-Right’s theme of America First as policy and philosophy. Cites American ‘carnage’, without going into detail as to what that might entail. Falsely claims it stopped raining when he began to speak. Passes over long-time inauguration parade announcer Charlie Brotman, replacing him with no one. Six journalists are arrested while covering the inauguration and charged with felony rioting. Trump signs emergency order increasing mortgage costs for first time home buyers.

Day 2: Climate change data on White House website scrubbed. Trump calls National Park Service Director Michael T. Reynolds and orders him to produce photos showing a more crowded inauguration. He lies to the press about the size of the crowds at his inauguration, then complains when the press calls him on that lie. Gives speech at CIA headquarters. Brings along a claque of staffers unrelated to the CIA to cheer and clap at his words. Later claims he received the “greatest standing ovation since Peyton Manning won the Super Bowl.” Protocol calls for government employees to remain standing until the president asks them to sit Outgoing CIA director, John Brennan, calls the CIA speech “a despicable display of self-aggrandizement.” Claims to hold the all-time record of Time magazine covers at “14 or 15.” He has been on 11 covers. Richard Nixon holds the actual record with 55 Time covers. Hillary Clinton has 22 covers.

Day 3: Spokesperson Conway announces Trump won’t be releasing his tax returns regardless of the state of his IRS Audit. She claims that the people don’t care about Trump’s taxes. Conway also introduces the concept of lies as “alternative facts.”

Day 4: Spanish language option on White House website scrubbed. Conway reverses herself and says that Trump will release his taxes once his IRS audit is complete. After lying about inauguration crowd sizes on Day 1, Press Secretary Spicer says “…our intention is never to lie to you.” Spicer claims hiring freeze will halt “dramatic increase” in government employment. Number of federal employees at the beginning of Obama’s terms, 2.77 million; towards the end, 2.66 million. Spicer declines to give the current unemployment rate when asked by a reporter. Trump bans aid to international health organizations, including the World Heath Organization, if they mention abortion. Claims he will cut all regulations on businesses by 75%, that the remaining 25% will be just as strong about protecting the people as before the cut. Claims to have “received many awards on the environment.” The only award that can be verified is a Trump golf course that received one in 2007. In 2011 the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection cited the same golf course for several environmental violations. At a meeting with lawmakers, Trump repeats the false claim that between 3 and 5 million illegal voters made him lose the popular vote. The initial evidence he cites is the anecdote of a 59-year-old golf pro and German citizen, Bernhard Langer, who Trump claims saw a lot of Latin faces in a polling line in Florida. Reporters reached the golf pro’s daughter on Langer’s cell phone. She said “He is not a friend of President Trump’s, and I don’t know why he would talk about him.” An attempt to sue Trump under the Constitution’s Emoluments Clause begins.

Day 5: Retroactively declares his inauguration day, January 20, 2017, the National Day of Patriotic Devotion. Revives the Keystone XL and Dakota Access crude oil pipelines. The Badlands National Park Twitter account goes rogue and begins to tweet global warming stats and other scientific facts. It is shut down. A few other National Park accounts begin to follow suit out of solidarity. White house imposes a freeze on grants and contracts from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, prohibits employees from speaking to the press or on social media. Slaps a similar gag order on US Department of Agriculture scientists. Press Secretary Spicer says Trump’s 306 electoral votes were the most won by a GOP president since Reagan. But after Reagan, George HW Bush won with 426 electoral votes. Spicer calls prospective Attorney General Sessions record on voting and civil rights “exemplary.” Says Sessions “has fought very hard for voting rights, civil rights and on areas of minority rights.” Sessions was considered to be too racist for a federal judgeship in the 1980’s. As a US Attorney, Sessions prosecuted 3 black activists for hand delivering, rather than mailing a small number of absentee ballots. Sessions also called a fellow US Attorney “Boy.” Spicer repeats Trump’s lie regarding 3-5 million illegal votes during the election, citing non-existent “studies and evidence.” A member of the House and a Senator introduce a bill that would prevent the president from launching a nuclear first strike without a congressional declaration of war. A short time after a Bill O'Reilly episode touching on Chicago gun violence airs on Fox, Trump threatens to send federal troops into Chicago. Chicago’s murder rate in 2016 failed to put it in the top 10 US cities.

Day 6: Expands media and social media gag orders to include US Departments of Commerce, the Interior, Transportation and Health and Human services. Trump issues Draft Order designed to reopen CIA.-run “black site” prisons. These secret overseas prisons detained and tortured terrorism suspects for years, before being shut down by President Obama. Trump claims that intelligence officials have told him that torture “absolutely” works. George Orwell’s classic book 1984 hits #6 on Amazon’s bestseller list. Trump tweets that he will be asking for a “major investigation into VOTER FRAUD.” When confronted on ABC with the fact that the Pew reporter he was citing regarding voter fraud said there was in fact no voter fraud, Trump claimed the Pew reporter was “groveling.” Claims that two people were shot in Chicago during Obama’s farewell speech. Police reported no shootings in Chicago on that day. In the same interview, says “We ended up winning by a massive amount, 306.” In terms of electoral votes, Trump’s win ranks 46th out of 58 elections. Says “They say I had the biggest crowd in the history of inaugural speeches.” Estimates for crowds at Trump’s speech are 80% below those of Barack Obama’s in 2009. Says “We have spent as of one month ago 6 trillion dollars in the Middle East.” From 2001 to 2014 the wars in Iraq and in Afghanistan–the latter country is in South Asia–cost an estimated $1.6 trillion. Says “You had millions of people that now aren’t insured anymore.” Some 20 million people have gained health care coverage because of the Affordable Care Act. He signs directive to build border wall with Mexico, reiterates that Mexico will pay for it. The deepest channel of the Rio Grande river serves as the US-Mexico border for 1255 miles, longer than the distance from New York City to Orlando, FL. The river is known to change its course rather frequently. Signs another directive increasing detention centers and Border Patrol staff. Signs another directive that threatens to cut off federal funds to cities that don’t actively and vigorously pursue illegal aliens. Another order cuts U.S. funding to the International Criminal Court by 40 percent. The U.S. currently gives zero funding to the International Criminal Court. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago country club doubles membership fees. His hotel business reveals plans for a major US expansion.

Day 7 14 minutes after Fox News calls Chelsea Manning an ungrateful traitor who called Obama a weak leader, Trump tweets that Chelsea Manning is an ungrateful traitor who called Obama a weak leader. Entire US State Department senior management team resigns. All were career foreign service officers who served under both Republican and Democratic administrations. Infowars, who reported that the murdered Sandy Hook 1st graders were paid actors hired by the anti-gun lobby, and that the Air Force is purposefully creating deadly tornadoes in the Midwest, is granted White House Press credentials. Trump tweets that Mexico should cancel the upcoming summit with the US if they don’t want to pay for the wall. Enrique Pena Nieto, president of Mexico, our close ally, cancels his planned trip to Washington. Trump proposes a 20% tax on goods coming from Mexico. Sellers will increase their prices by 20%, which will be paid for by the US consumer. In Philadelphia Trump says that “the murder rate has been steadily – I mean, just terribly increasing.” Data provided by the Philadelphia Police Department shows a record downturn in violent crimes, with fewer occurring in 2016 than in every other year since 1979. Trump orders his new administration to publish a weekly list of crimes committed by immigrants. The idea is not new. The German newspaper Der Stürmer had a feature known as the “Letter Box”, which encouraged the reporting of Jewish illegal acts in the 1930’s and 40’s. “The media should be embarrassed and humiliated and keep its mouth shut and just listen for awhile,” -Steve Bannon, Donald Trump’s closest adviser. In an interview with Sean Hannity, Trump says that he doesn’t consider waterboarding to be torture. In April of 2009, Hannity agreed to be waterboarded for charity, but has yet to follow through on the offer. Trump draft proposal will ban immigration and to the US from Muslim majority countries Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Yemen and Somalia. Muslim majority countries Turkey, Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Azerbaijan and the U.A.E. will not be on the banned list. These five countries are where Trump has business interests.

Day 8 Trump signs ban on Muslims from the 7 countries from traveling into the US. Announces that persecuted Christians will be given priority over Muslim refugees. A screenshot is revived of Mike Pence’s deleted December 2015 tweet stating “Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.” Dick Cheney says Muslim ban “goes against everything we stand for and believe in.” By a margin of 42% to 39%, Trump voters believe that it would be okay for him to use his private email server for official business. George Orwell’s 1984 hits #1 on Amazon’s bestseller list. Trump tweets that he has another source for his oft-debunked claim of millions of illegal votes - Gregg Phillips, who has made claims that the Department of Homeland Security hacked the 2016 US election at Obama’s request, and that Israel was the culprit for the DNC hacks. Three paragraph White House statement on Holocaust Remembrance Day makes no mention of the 6 million Jews killed in the Holocaust. White Supremacist publication the Daily Stormer praises Trump on this statement for daring to reject “Jewish science fiction” about the Holocaust.

Day 9 Donald Trump calls Vladimir Putin from the White House. Steve Bannon, former publisher of radical right wing website Breitbart, is granted a regular seat at National Security Council meetings. Sample Breitbart headlines include Data: Young Muslims in the West Are a Ticking Time Bomb, and Birth Control Makes Women Unattractive and Crazy. In 2013, Bannon told a writer for the Daily Beast, “I’m a Leninist. Lenin wanted to destroy the state, and that’s my goal, too. I want to bring everything crashing down.” The Director of National Intelligence and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff will no longer have regular seats on the NSC. Some legal permanent US residents are being stopped from reentering as they return from visits or studies abroad. The Muslim ban will also keep Oscar-nominated director Asghar Farhadi from attending the Oscars. Referencing an article on how the ban will include green card residents, former KKK Grand Wizard and current racist icon David Duke tweets, “Greatest. Year. Ever.” Protesters flood JFK International Terminal in New York, demanding that detainees there be allowed to go free. More protesters assemble at airports in Denver, Chicago, Dallas, San Francisco, Seattle, LA, and Washington DC. Dozens of lawyers show up at various airports to work pro bono to free detainees there. New York judge issues a temporary injunction halting deportations nationwide from Trump’s ban. Similar rulings follow in Virginia, Massachusetts and Washington State.

Day 10 The US Department of Homeland Security says it will comply with judicial orders not to deport detained travelers affected by Trump’s ban. The DHS reverses itself and announces it will defy the court orders, potentially provoking a constitutional crisis. According to White House sources, Top Trump policy director Stephen Miller tells government employees that the public is behind Trump’s ban, and to ignore the hysterical voices on TV. While at Duke, Stephen Miller worked closely with White Nationalist Richard Spencer–the man who was recently punched in the face on air while explaining the Alt-Right, provoking debate amongst the Left as to whether or not it’s okay to punch a Nazi. As chaos and protests continue at airports in the US and around the world, Trump tells reporters “It’s not a Muslim ban. We were totally prepared. It’s working out very nicely. You see it at the airports, you see it all over. It’s working out very nicely.” Trump issues a statement saying, “To be clear, this is not a Muslim ban, as the media is falsely reporting,” Earlier in the day, Rudy Giuliani, adviser to Trump, told a reporter, “I’ll tell you the whole history of it. When he first announced it, he said 'Muslim ban.’ He called me up, he said 'put a commission together, show me the right way to do it, legally.’ ” A petition calling for Trump to be prevented from making a state visit to the United Kingdom picks up over 600,000 signatures, Once a petition passes the 500,000 threshold, the matter must then be debated in the UK Parliament.

[fitriafajrina-blog]

Day 9 of #30haribercerita . Welcome to my #30hbc1809 . My Golden Life is a rich melodrama with 50 episodes. I thought The early episodes of it set up a rather predictable Cinderella story. it's also the handiwork of one my fav drama, Brilliant Legacy (2009). And this is the second long drama I follow after My Father is strange which is has 52 episodes (2017). But I so much in love with the second lead male, Lee Tae-hwan as Sunwoo Hyuk. Because hw teached me how to be a good friend. I know the quieter I become, the more I can hear. . Ketika seseorang datang kepadamu untuk bercerita, kamu pernah tahu? Bahwa Tidak semua orang punya kemandirian untuk bercerita kepada orang lain. Banyak orang yang memutuskan untuk menyimpan masalahnya dengan baik didalam hatinya. Jadi ketika dia memintamu untuk menjadi pendengar, let it flow. Biarkan dia yang ambil alih, even it will take a time. Tak usah kamu tanyakan mengapa, silahkan bantu dia tanpa harus tahu "kenapa bisa", mungkin dia belum siap berbicara dengan detail, mungkin ia hanya ingin meluapkan, marahnya, sedihnya atau senangnya. Mungkin ia hanya sedang butuh sandaran, mungkin ia hanya sedang butuh penguatan. Mungkin masih ada hal yang memang ia masih ingin simpan sendiri. Tidak ada salahnya untuk lebih belajar untuk memahami, bukan banyak menuntut untuk dimaklumi dengan alih-alih demi keutuhan cerita dan bisa memberikan solusi yang baik. Stop memuaskan kekepoan kita, guys. Gomawo Sunwoo oppa 😅 #mygoldenlife #secondlead #sunwooshipper #JianJisoo . . Kalau ditanya: na, jauh-jauh kesana. Masih aja update drama terbaru. Biarkan, biarkan hidupku tak melulu dibuat stress sama tumpukan buku yang harus segera dikhatamin 😂 (at Khartoum, Sudan)

[lord-of-tomatoes]

I love drawing tiny ppl so have a lil tiny Egypt

+ A lil tiny sudan too

Sudan and Palestine are by @/peonycats

[peonycats]

MISC ART DUMP

Some assorted drawings I never got around to posting on tumblr! Maybe one day I’ll get thru my backlog :’ )

from top to bottom, left to right:

Sri Lanka (Honestly there was way more jewelry I should’ve drawn but I got tired 😭)

Saudi Arabia (drew this for a meme lol)

Samoa (and his chibi self holding some pani popo!)

Algeria, Morocco, Tunisia (hanging out in some cups hehe)

India, China (idk i was in a mood this color scheme slaps tho)

Omangus (I drew this a year ago idk ive posted this before bahaha)

Afghanistan (judging u so hardcore)

Chibi Sudan, Eritrea, Djibouti (Matching pfps <333)

[cafekubua]

Đế Chế Anh - Đế chế của tự do

[Đế Chế Anh – Đế chế của tự do][Ku Búa @ Cafe Ku Búa] Trong 400 năm qua, cường quốc nào đã làm nhiều nhất để phổ biến những lý tưởng về một chính phủ giới hạn, một bộ tư pháp độc lập, những quyền bất khả xâm phạm và thị trường tự do? Cường quốc đó chính là Đế Chế Anh.

Chính Anh Quốc đã đưa những lý tưởng này cho Hoa Kỳ. Chính Đế Chế Anh, đế chế lớn nhất trong lịch sử thế giới, đã biến những lý tưởng đó thành những khát vọng toàn cầu. Chính Đế Chế Anh, cùng với Hoa Kỳ, đã bảo vệ những lý tưởng đó trong hai thế chiến khổng lồ.

Tự do là một quyền lợi của một người Anh và cho dù anh ta đi đến đâu, anh ta cũng đem quyền lợi đó bên mình. Cho dù đó là một nhà thực dân ở Mỹ, tự cai trị bản thân thông qua một hội đồng bầu cử địa phương; hoặc một nhà thám hiểm người Anh như Ngài Stamford Raffles, người đã tạo ra quốc đảo của thị trường tự do – Singapore, hay một sĩ quan người Anh như TE Lawrence dẫn dắt những bộ tộc Arab để chống lại người Thổ Nhĩ Kỳ.

Người Anh luôn nghĩ đến bản thân họ là những người giải phóng, những người đem lại sự tự do. Người Anh tin rằng sự biện minh cuối cùng và cần thiết cho sự tồn tại đế chế của họ là một lập luận đạo đức. Người Anh đã gìn giữ hòa bình cho nhân loại. Họ đã đem đến những chính quyền ổn định, thật thà và họ đã khẳng định rằng những tiêu chuẩn đạo đức cơ bản nhất để được tôn trọng.

Người Anh đã không tìm cách xây dựng quốc gia như cách mà chúng ta nghĩ đến trong ngày hôm nay. Họ đã không ảo tưởng về việc biến người Arab, Afghan hay Zulu thành những người Anh. Họ thường để cho người ta yên ổn, để họ làm chính họ, để họ tự cai trị họ với sự can thiệp tối thiểu nhất. Trong lịch sử Hoa Kỳ, chúng ta nhớ đến điều này khi nghĩ về Đế Chế Anh – “benign neglect” (vừa lơ là vừa cảnh giác).

Chúng ta có thể nhìn thấy điều đó trong suốt lịch sử của Đế Chế Anh. Hãy nghĩ đến lãnh thổ rộng lớn của Sudan. Nó chỉ được quản lý bởi 140 cán bộ hành chính của Anh Quốc. Thậm chí ông Gandhi cũng đã ca ngợi Đế Chế Anh, trích lời của Jefferson, nói ông ta tin rằng một chính phủ tốt nhất là một chính phủ cai trị ít nhất, và ông ta nhìn nhận Đế Chế Anh đã bảo đảm tự do của ông ta và cai trị ông ta với sự can thiệp tối thiểu nhất.

Để bảo vệ tự do, Đế Chế Anh đã đưa ra những ranh giới đạo đức. Không có một cường quốc nào đã làm nhiều hơn để xóa bỏ chế độ nô lệ và sự giao thương nô lệ trong thế giới hiện đại hơn Đế Chế Anh. Kho Bạc Anh đã tiêu những số tiền lớn để giải phóng những nô lệ, và bồi thường những chủ nô lệ ở vùng Carribean.

Hải Quân Hoàng Giáo Anh đã có một nhiệm vụ chính trong việc xóa bỏ chế độ nô lệ. Thậm chí, xóa bỏ sự giao thương nô lệ đã trở thành một yếu tố chính trong sự nới rộng của Đế Chế Anh. Người Anh đã thi hành chính sách Pax Britannica (Hòa Bình Trong Đế Chế Anh), họ đã dẹp bỏ hải tặc, tiêu diệt những kẻ săn người và gìn giữ hòa bình giữa những bộ lạc và tôn giáo trước đây đã gây chiến. Trong khi vẫn tôn trọng và thường cai trị trên quyền của những nhà lãnh đạo địa phương, người Anh vẫn nhất định thực hiện dựa trên những tiêu chuẩn đạo đức của Thiên Chúa – Do Thái.

Họ đã không như chúng ta thường nghĩ, là những người đa văn hóa. Họ có khái niệm rõ ràng về cái gì đúng và sai. Khi Ngài Charles Napier đối mặt với phong tục sati (phong tục của người Ấn Độ Giáo – người vợ phải tự thiêu khi người chồng đã chết), ông ta đã nói với một linh mục Brahman rằng ông ta hiểu đó là phong tục của họ. Nhưng người Anh cũng có phong tục riêng. Họ treo cổ những người đàn ông nào mà thiêu chết người phụ nữ, và tài sản của họ ta bị tịch thu. Nên nếu người Brahman khăng khăng tiếp tục truyền thống thiêu chế góa phụ này, thì ông ta sẽ làm theo truyền thống của người Anh bằng cách treo cổ những người đã giết chết những góa phụ đó. Sau đó thì truyền thông thiêu chết góa phụ ở Ấn Độ dần được xóa bỏ.

Nhưng chúng ta không cần phải nhìn sâu vào lịch sử, vào những việc như sự xóa bỏ của chế độ nô lệ và thiêu sống góa phụ, để nhìn thấy rằng Đế Chế Anh đã đứng bên phía của đạo đức và tự do. Chúng ta có thể nghĩ đến những sự kiện trong chính cuộc đời của chúng ta, cuộc đời của cha mẹ hoặc ông bà chúng ta. Khi chúng ta nghĩ đến hai mối đe dọa đến tự do lớn nhất ở thế kỷ 20, chúng ta thường nghĩ đến chủ nghĩa cộng sản và chủ nghĩa phát xít. Nhưng có bao nhiêu người nhớ rằng vào năm 1940, sau hiệp ước giữa Hitler và Stalin, sau sự sụp đổ của Pháp, một quyền lực duy nhất – Đế Chế Anh – đã đứng đơn độc trước cái chết để chiến đấu lại những nhà độc tài của thế giới?

Thậm chí khi người Anh đã nhận được nhiều sự chỉ trích như trong trường hợp của Ireland, câu chuyện về đó còn nhiều điều phải bàn hơn nữa. Trong cuộc đàm phán để tạo ra nền Cộng Hòa Ireland, thủ tướng Anh David Lloyd George, người có thể nói tiếng Wales, đã nhắc cho những nhà ái quốc cực đoan Ireland và Gallic Eamon de Valera rằng người Celt chưa bao giờ có một cụm từ nào cho khái niệm “Cộng Hòa.” Nó chính là một ý tưởng được đem đến bởi người Anh.

Đây cũng chính là lịch sử của chúng ta nữa. Nếu bạn yêu nước Mỹ, bạn cũng nên yêu cường quốc đã đưa Mỹ một khái niệm về những quyền lợi bất khả xâm phạm, những quyền lợi xuất phát từ bản Đại Hiến Chương – Magna Carta. Mọi chuyện đều bắt đầu ở Mỹ với Đế Chế Anh, đế chế vĩ đại yêu mến tự do. Chính di sản của đế chế đó ở trong những nước nói tiếng Anh ngày hôm nay là yếu tố bảo hộ toàn cầu cho tự do của nhân loại ngày nay.

Tôi là HW Crocker cho Đại Học Prager. [Ku Búa @ Cafe Ku Búa, theo Prager U]

  Đế Chế Anh – Đế chế của tự do was originally published on Cafe Ku Búa

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Hello, for the requests - Could you do Ancient Greece and Ancient Egypt on a playdate with their kids? And could the kids include my Sicily OC? 👉🏻👈🏻 I just think that in the Hetaverse, he regards the time of the Greek city states on the island as the last proper time he was free and its own player on the world stage, so Baby Sicily has very fond memories of Ancient Greece and her baby son (and there were also always trade/diplomatic links in history between Sicily and Egypt, though they waned throughout times due to different foreign rules). Also, I am convinced Sicily bit every last colonist that first came to the island and none of the personifications of the indigineous peoples knew where that feral forest kid comes from, but I'm sure he's a well-behaved playmate with other nation kids. Anyways, here's the adult Sicilian for reference, just babify him:

Ok so i misread this as Egypt and Greece on a playdate with their kids and i thought you wanted sicily to be Greeces kid

So i decided to make them take their siblings on a playdate instead of their kids cause i didn't feel like making a kid oc for Egypt

But then i realised that you said ANCIENT Egypt and ANCIENT Greece so uh

Here's your actual request

They're hanging out during the time of Alexander the great ig idk

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Can I request Egypt braiding Sudan's hair ?

Hey I'm still alive!!

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Sudan stop bullying him about his footwear </3

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I'm sorry I already asked 👉👈 but can we get more of Sudan? He's just sooo adorable 💗💕 (also good luck with college it really sucks 💀)

Also based on something between me n my bro