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“By the mid-1800s, it became really clear to the US government that the expenditure of military force on Native people was too perilous, and it was euphemistically much more efficient to subjugate Native people by destroying their food system … Native Americans are one of the only populations in the modern world to have had their entire food system destroyed as a tactic of war.”

Women who sought spiritual emancipation were not always welcome, especially if they strayed too far from orthodoxy, associated with heretical sects or, in the transition from feudalism to capitalism, frustrated efforts to subjugate women, their labor and their reproductive power into exploited and unpaid economic resources.

“Watchmen” itself played with the dangerous allure of superpower, through its masked vigilante character Rorschach; through its super genius Ozymandias, who committed mass murder in the name of idealism; and through the godlike Dr. Manhattan, whose powers helped America subjugate Vietnam and ushered in the extended presidency of Richard Nixon.

Once in power, they destroy or subjugate the institutions that could check them, allowing them to govern as they please.

Coercive control “is designed to subjugate and dominate, not merely to hurt,” Stark, who died in April, said in a London court in 2019 while testifying on behalf of a domestic abuse victim who’d murdered her husband.