Terrible health insurance, awful auto and home/renters' premium spikes, higher energy bills, and expensive groceries are the kind of stuff that brings down nations. Even the most advanced and modern civilization is only so many skipped meals away from anarchy.

That turkey looks gray because he tried to cook it in a gas chamber instead of an oven.

Yeah, the Inca and Aztecs more or less weaponized human sacrifice and took a “we have a famine, obviously we need to sacrifice a chosen one!” rite, then turned it into quite literally demanding blood tributes from every other tribe they controlled or made their vassals. But they were not the norm.

Painting native tribes as cannibalistic savages because two empires turned a religious practice reserved for disasters into a tool of oppression and were widely reviled for it, is simply European colonial propaganda that sought to justify conquest and pillaging as “saving savages from themselves.”

The same people who get mad at me if I use comp sci jargon when talking about AI and cyborgs seem to expect me to also have a JD and be fluent in Latin.