#but also—it just feels historically blinkered to focus on fascism when being an empire is bad enough in its own

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I really wish people didn’t see “empire” and immediately add “fascist” to it. Like those are real but just being an empire involves killing people and bloody conquest and all kinds of political maneuvering and oppression without the specific ideology that is fascism. An empire doesn’t have to be fascist to be a priori terrible.

#this is a locked tomb post #this is perhaps influenced by the last three months i spent listening to tides of history #and reading about the evolution of states and empires in the bronze age #but also—it just feels historically blinkered to focus on fascism when being an empire is bad enough in its own