i want to post this exchange to see it as one post and imagine it as a conversation between these two land grab workers sitting in a box: 

the normalization of genocide is the red line we crossed. we've been dehumanized. Unfortunately no. Genocide is as old as humanity. The only difference is in scale, driven by population growth and technology. So we haven't "been dehumanized", it's just who we are, and probably always will be.

well, then we're destined for extinction. driven to death by the death cult of greed. understand, this time is unique, they are openly advocating zionist genocide, and crushing freedom and free speech. we have masked thugs disappearing people in the u.s. has it always been this way? no. yes, we have been dehumanized. and no, it's not just who we are, there have been peace loving societies. if we were always this way everywhere all the time we'd have gone extinct a long time ago. so, here we sit, minions of empire, in the midst of a land grab landscape of styrofoam and concrete, gentrification and genocide.