Spain is in Ceuta because it was part of Al-Andalus.
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so it should be clear then that #ManifestDestiny is a secularization of the #DivineRight to rule claimed by nobilities.
and it should explain why #blanqueamiento and #ManifestDestiny were ok with the millions of europeans migrating after 1898 regardless of their “limpia” status.
mass migration satisfied their goal of killing off and expropriating as many afro/indigenous people across the Américas as possible & repopulating with #DEBT SLAVES, aka indentured workers
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#MAGA #PROJECT2025 is a hodgepodge of policies from post-1492 Spain mashed up with #blanqueamiento #ManifestDestiny and sundry fascist europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) fever dreams.
so the best thing y’all in #EU #EUROPE could do is to call out #AfD #Reform #Vox and every neofascist movement in your country what they are: #MAGA wannabes.
because they are.
because there is a long history to prove it.
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so it should be clear then that #ManifestDestiny is a secularization of the #DivineRight to rule claimed by nobilities.
and it should explain why #blanqueamiento and #ManifestDestiny were ok with the millions of europeans migrating after 1898 regardless of their “limpia” status.
mass migration satisfied their goal of killing off and expropriating as many afro/indigenous people across the Américas as possible & repopulating with #DEBT SLAVES, aka indentured workers
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@blogdiva The Credit Card/FICO system in the U.S. serves the purposes you describe quite well.
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#MAGA #PROJECT2025 is a hodgepodge of policies from post-1492 Spain mashed up with #blanqueamiento #ManifestDestiny and sundry fascist europe (Germany, Italy, Spain) fever dreams.
so the best thing y’all in #EU #EUROPE could do is to call out #AfD #Reform #Vox and every neofascist movement in your country what they are: #MAGA wannabes.
because they are.
because there is a long history to prove it.
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https://www.salon.com/2024/07/31/most-extreme-ever-project-2025-contributors-have-a-history-of/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-wants-to-make-eugenics-great-again-lets-not/
Russia also has a long history of destroying rebellious ethnic minorities through forced migrations & pogroms. It's a weapon of war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Unionhttps://henryjacksonsociety.org/2025/11/13/how-russia-uses-migration-as-a-weapon/
Imperialist land grabs & asset confiscations is how The Moneyed reward their cronies for their support.
https://allisraelnews.com/only-long-term-solution-for-hormuz-crisis-is-a-pipeline-through-israel-says-pm-netanyahu-but-turkey-and-syria-compete-for-strategic-routehttps://www.rferl.org/a/russia-weaponizing-syrian-refugees-geopolitical-goals/27562604.html
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I'm not sure I agree with your use of the present in the sentence:
> #Marruecos is to #España what El Salvador is today to #Trump and #MAGA #Project2025.
Marruecos is definitely not currently a friendly ally of Spain as El Salvador is of the US.
The rest... Fascinating stuff and eye-opening too. Thanks.
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913427870
Spain is in Ceuta because it was part of Al-Andalus. after 1492 it became NOT a migration point but an EXPULSION point.
#Morocco has been complicit with #Spain since the days of the Hapsburgs. they helped La Corona in #deportations of spanish moros, sefaradís and even iberian ethnic groups like basque, gallegos, catalanes.
#Marruecos is to #España what El Salvador is today to #Trump and #MAGA #Project2025.
Spain’s first sugar plantations were worked by moro & sefaradí slaves in Morocco.
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@blogdiva The Habsburgs, of course, also being among the most notoriously inbred families in history, making a mockery of myths about "pure blood".
As posh Brits would say as they clink their champagne glasses together..."chin chin"!
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https://www.salon.com/2024/07/31/most-extreme-ever-project-2025-contributors-have-a-history-of/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/donald-trump-wants-to-make-eugenics-great-again-lets-not/
Russia also has a long history of destroying rebellious ethnic minorities through forced migrations & pogroms. It's a weapon of war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Population_transfer_in_the_Soviet_Unionhttps://henryjacksonsociety.org/2025/11/13/how-russia-uses-migration-as-a-weapon/
Imperialist land grabs & asset confiscations is how The Moneyed reward their cronies for their support.
https://allisraelnews.com/only-long-term-solution-for-hormuz-crisis-is-a-pipeline-through-israel-says-pm-netanyahu-but-turkey-and-syria-compete-for-strategic-routehttps://www.rferl.org/a/russia-weaponizing-syrian-refugees-geopolitical-goals/27562604.html
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@blogdiva The Credit Card/FICO system in the U.S. serves the purposes you describe quite well.
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@blogdiva
Fascinating thread! Seems that among the implications are 1) capitalism has always been racial capitalism; 2) there's no capitalism that isn't racial. E.g. the Trumpist murder of DEI is just the righting of an errant neoliberal drift❝ racial capitalism ❞ isn't a thing. using biological reasons to oppress a group of people is an unfortunate human trait; that the motley crew we call Europe seem to be really good at.
the thing is: Europe as an identity literally sprang from one of the earliest war chronicles written in Spain, describing a battle won by a Franco-Iberian coalition against an Al-Andalus headquartered in Africa.
European, as an identity, exists as the opposite of Africa, Middle East and Islam.
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the fall of Granada in 1492 is a real fetish among a subset of christofascist neonazi gringos.
when i got my hands on #Project2025 and saw the section on deportations, it was very obvious to me Trump’s #MAGA handlers are following the messy and totally unplanned expulsiones of La Corona’s playbook.
basically, every time the crown and nobility needed cash, a new wave of pogroms and expulsiones of moros & sefaradís would happen.
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@blogdiva nodding along, especially to this one.
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Every fascist war is funded by the theft of other's wealth.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/31/bank-of-england-and-nazis-stolen-goldThe financial sector has money laundered that looting & pillaging for decades.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html
It's one reason why the young cannot afford a home. Banks helped launder billions of foreign stolen cash via the residential housing markets of the G7.
https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united-states/washington-dc-real-estate-news/2026-aml-rules-in-real-estate-blocktitle-financial-crimes-enforcement-network-impact-on-real-estate-michael-gerity-fincen-residential-real-estate-rule-14689.phphttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/12/undocumented-workers-home-prices-00183126
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RE: https://masto.nyc/@rejinl/117026794913427870
Spain is in Ceuta because it was part of Al-Andalus. after 1492 it became NOT a migration point but an EXPULSION point.
#Morocco has been complicit with #Spain since the days of the Hapsburgs. they helped La Corona in #deportations of spanish moros, sefaradís and even iberian ethnic groups like basque, gallegos, catalanes.
#Marruecos is to #España what El Salvador is today to #Trump and #MAGA #Project2025.
Spain’s first sugar plantations were worked by moro & sefaradí slaves in Morocco.
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@blogdiva para hablar sin saber, mejor se calla usted, compañera.
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Every fascist war is funded by the theft of other's wealth.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2013/jul/31/bank-of-england-and-nazis-stolen-goldThe financial sector has money laundered that looting & pillaging for decades.
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/nazis/readings/sinister.html
It's one reason why the young cannot afford a home. Banks helped launder billions of foreign stolen cash via the residential housing markets of the G7.
https://www.worldpropertyjournal.com/real-estate-news/united-states/washington-dc-real-estate-news/2026-aml-rules-in-real-estate-blocktitle-financial-crimes-enforcement-network-impact-on-real-estate-michael-gerity-fincen-residential-real-estate-rule-14689.phphttps://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2024/10/12/undocumented-workers-home-prices-00183126
@Npars01 @browngraham243 @blogdiva
And murdering for resourses.
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❝ racial capitalism ❞ isn't a thing. using biological reasons to oppress a group of people is an unfortunate human trait; that the motley crew we call Europe seem to be really good at.
the thing is: Europe as an identity literally sprang from one of the earliest war chronicles written in Spain, describing a battle won by a Franco-Iberian coalition against an Al-Andalus headquartered in Africa.
European, as an identity, exists as the opposite of Africa, Middle East and Islam.
@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
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@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
@dnkboston @blogdiva @ophiocephalic Henri Pirenne said the same thing, that after the Roman empire collapsed all the Mediterranean trade routes remained, the European hinterland only became important after christians lost the southern shore
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@blogdiva At the risk of being pedantic, this is essentially what Said was calling out in *Orientalism*. Without The Other, Europe as a concept couldn't exist. And this is something that predates Christianity.
YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
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@blogdiva The Habsburgs, of course, also being among the most notoriously inbred families in history, making a mockery of myths about "pure blood".
As posh Brits would say as they clink their champagne glasses together..."chin chin"!
@ApostateEnglishman @blogdiva Es heisst HABSBURG, verdammt noch mal. Haben sie euch kein "B" mit hinübergeschickt in die Kolonien?
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I think that the US relationship to race and immigration is the unholy synthesis of chattel slavery (via the British-dominated triangle trade) and La Conquista peonage, which is the outgrowth of Euro colonial adventures in (North) Africa
And when Europeans say "we're not racist like Americans" they usually are focused on *one* of those two but are willfully blind to the other
French liberals overlook their history in Algiers; Belgians overlook Congo; Italians Ethiopia
I think the US traded class stratification for extra race stratification, too.
One can see, in literature and memoir to about mayyyybe 1830 in England, the possibility of an international race-blind aristocratic system instead of what we got. I think the UK and German middle-working classes were just strong enough to prevent it.
Surely this has a proper name to historians, perhaps as the something fallacy?
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but as there were less and less moros and sefaradís to be had, ethnic minorities like basques, catalanes, gallegos would end up in those sweeps.
in SUGAR: A BITTERSWEET HISTORY, Elizabeth Abbot centers the development of the sugar industry on these waves of expulsiones from Spain.
the first mass scale sugar plantations were developed by Spain in Morocco with the enslaved expulsados who had no means to “go back to where they came from” in the Middle East 🧵…
@blogdiva let me to make some corrections if youn do not mind. The word is sefardí, in English Sephardic, not sefaradies. Gallegans, vascs and catalonias are not ethnic groups but people with different languages related to other kingdoms in the peninsula. Moriscos were people with Arab cultural background. It means they write or even talk Arab but not necessary muslims. In fact they had to convert critianism since 1492. Moro was a despective way for Islamic.
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YES!
apropos of #Orientalism:
the whole pajamas craze of the early 20th century is directly related to europeans exposure to former slavery enclaves like Morocco when they pivoted to tourism to make money after a lot of their plantations went bankrupt trying to compete with South and East Asian plantations.
the lounge and beach pajamas craze really encapsulate that pivot away from MENA and the Indian peninsula into the “Far East”.
@blogdiva There is so much there that is applicable to our modern moment. It's going to take a couple of days to unpack it.
Always gets at the question that is at the rotten heart of capitalism with a capital
how can we drag out--extract--the absolute most from our assets? Assets=people, land, and ideas.
