Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities was met with skepticism

Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by vmception on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:08AM (#23730279)

For example, the family that was able to exploit the socioeconomic order to pick up those land plots from people indicted for witchcraft probably still owns those land plots, but new people will not be able to use the same tactic to obtain land now.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by pjc50 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @03:02AM (#23730661)

This is more or less how the Israeli "settlements" work; land is taken for "security" reasons and given to someone else.

The Russian privatization post Communism also handed a large amount of state resources to the well connected, who are now in many ways more entrenched than they were under Communism.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by bsanr2 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @08:51AM (#23731906)

Something something Manifest Destiny. Also, the Great Land Robbery (https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/09/this-la...). The Western model of land ownership is perhaps necessary for our way of life, but is certainly at the root of any number of atrocities.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by sudosysgen on Saturday July 04, 2020 @04:57AM (#23731083)

Much more. Even under the CPSU public opinion could change and you could be ousted. If you're an oligarch unless you die what you control, you control.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by achillesheels on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:41AM (#23732523)

Except that the Israeli “settlements” are on previously annexed land from 1967. It is more like an eminent domain seizure. And it is quite reasonable in theory to exercise sovereign power for such purposes to improve the land’s cultivation, so long as compensation is awarded (not sure if Israel gives it to the Palestinians)

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by adrianN on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:58AM (#23732669)

I was under the impression that it's illegal to settle on occupied land and what Israel is doing is hence illegal under international law. Am I somehow misinformed?

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by achillesheels on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:13PM (#23733567)

Are laws of men corruptible? Do you appeal to international law as the highest? Or do you submit to a higher perception?

I ask because your entire judgment is not based on anything consistent with civilization’s record with property claims and is really a 20th century phenomenon.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by adrianN on Sunday July 05, 2020 @12:35AM (#23736614)

The matter is too complex for me to have a good judgement, I was just confused because your comment didn't seem consistent with what I thought I knew.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by SenHeng on Saturday July 04, 2020 @11:34AM (#23732952)

It is illegal but no one can/will enforce the law,

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by pjc50 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:21PM (#23733613)

Of course there isn't any compensation. The owners are simply run off at gunpoint.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by achillesheels on Saturday July 04, 2020 @01:24PM (#23733629)

Source

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by eirini1 on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:14AM (#23730507)

maybe not witchcraft accusations per se, but im quite unsure how you can be aware of events occuring in the world right now and think that exploiting the current socioeconomic order to gain land and wealth is not done.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by zentropia on Saturday July 04, 2020 @05:59AM (#23731305)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lynching_of_Mashal_Khan

A student accuses the University staff of corruption and end killed by a mob for blasphemy.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by vmception on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:59AM (#23730656)

Right it wouldn’t be a witch craft accusation , in the west

Its one example

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by justinclift on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:57AM (#23732655)

Seems more a case of "use whatever the hot topic is for circumventing rational thought".

Recent version could be something like this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/06/stop-firin...

Or any of the other modern topics people have mentioned. It'd need to be combined with having the ability and intent to acquire the property of the targeted people.

In the above example, being the people don't seem to really own much/any property anyway, maybe it's harder than it first looks?

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by viraptor on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:06AM (#23732259)

Are you sure? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satanic_ritual_abuse

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by Fjolsvith on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:44AM (#23731660)

Pedophilia.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by Thorrez on Saturday July 04, 2020 @02:38AM (#23730588)

That sounds more like a technique to attain comfort rather than a comfort level itself.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by vmception on Saturday July 04, 2020 @03:00AM (#23730658)

I’m glad you understood

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by Thorrez on Saturday July 04, 2020 @06:25PM (#23735341)

I'm not sure I did. ipsum2 seemed to be asking for a comfort level.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by wodenokoto on Saturday July 04, 2020 @07:42AM (#23731654)

That’s not a level of comfort that’s a level of corruption.

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Re:Invention of satanic witchcraft by medieval authorities w... by Mary-Jane on Saturday July 04, 2020 @10:30AM (#23732428)

Eminent Domain.

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