Sounds familiar?

British Empire?

American Colonies?

Time is a circle.

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    Only problem with this theory is there is no native population to exploit. Colonialism/empirism fails when you can’t subjugate anyone.

    • But the US didn’t really have any natives to exploit either, they basically genocided them. The exploitation was mostly done with enslaved Africans who they kidnapped and trafficked to the Americas.

      So all they need to do is just bring over a population to exploit.

      (Which I’m not saying is in anyway okay btw, fuck slavery.)

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        By the time of the US, it was genocide after genocide. But before that when we called Americans different sorts of European, it was genocide and forced labor/slavery/some becoming human zoo enhibit

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      The trip to Mars will be similarly expensive to a trip to the New World back in the day. I can imagine history rhyming with something akin to indentured servitude. Especially if the rockets and resources on Mars are owned by billionaires like Musk.