January 28th, 2026

The worse the present gets, the more tempted I am to go back to early American/Western history for comparison. Yet at the same time I ask myself, what's the point of going backwards and showing it's as horrible as it's always been? Who cares? 

So I return to my little void that is maybe getting picked up by bots from SEO I added a while back. Back here to craft an extremely compressed timeline of American colonialism to frame this moment of 2026 in time. 

1500s: Columbus and full colonizer battles over the lands of the Americas. Start of trans-Atlantic slave trade and genocide of Indigenous peoples.
1600s: British settlers land in North America (particularly Massachusetts) to establish the Thirteen Colonies. Continue slavery and genocide.
1700s: British colonial rule over Thirteen Colonies continues until 'American Revolution' in 1776. Continue slavery and genocide.
1800s: American rule expands Westward. Slavery changes form to sharecropping and Jim Crow, genocide continues across the nation.
1900s: Continental U.S. Empire is established. Jim Crow becomes prison-industrial complex, genocide continues (arguably at a slower pace). Tactics of hijacking  / infiltrating POC power diversify.
2000s: Prison-industrial complex and genocide of indigenous people continues at home. 

ICE members now were all the people fighting FOR segregation from 1864-1964. ICE "soldiers" now are the people who signed up to "settle" the American West from 1776-1850. ICE people would've been slave owners and colonizers throughout the 1500-1800s. ICE would be IOF if they lived in Israel instead of America. 

ICE members are the pink guards in Squid Game and the Peacekeepers from the Hunger Games. ICE are the human monsters we should've been warned about as kids: placid drones, stupid sadists, and irritating assholes. The first is not something I would instinctually clock as bad but with time I've learned that it's very true. Programmable people exist and that is very dangerous, because this society is evil. Imagine if people were programmed to be passively good, how much could get done if people mindlessly worked together on helpful tasks rather than endless shifts pulling children  away from families.