@Netzblockierer @Stellar @Natasha_Jay the widespread depravity seems to make more sense when you remember that the culture is informed by mashing together (among other, less deranged later waves of immigrants)

- exiled Anglo-Protestant proto-Taliban
- an entire civilization built around the biggest human trafficking ring the world has ever seen to this day, which was so evil that the ringleaders literally invented racism to justify it to themselves
- lots and lots of families of people doing stuff that's every bit as bad as what the Israeli settlers in Palestine are doing now, but in a much larger space and a lot less eyes on them and no social media letting them get away with a lot worse and constantly justify it to their kids from the cradle