Like most coerced unions, annexations come wreathed in clouds of lofty, dishonest language — key themes are popular will, historic grievance, divine providence — but they almost always happen at the end of a gun.
But 2015 being the year that pranksters discovered the meta-prank, so tick follows tock, so a stooge-like male lead is coerced into feigning a heart attack, and so we get three minutes of footage of a man in a bunny outfit showing genuine remorse, thinking the heart attack man died an undignified death on the floor of an unclean hospital.
Through interviews, the film conveys what it's like to be coerced into sexual congress with alien beings -- and, in at least one case, to become an unwitting participant, apparently, in a kind of intergalactic hybrid breeding program.
Bengal's wealth rapidly drained into Britain, while its prosperous weavers and artisans were coerced "like so many slaves" by their new masters, and its markets flooded with British products.
Unfortunately, Likes that you coerce out of people and Likes that people deliberately give you have wildly different outcomes down the line.
In tribute, then, to my grannies' culturally coerced fertility, I'd like to take some time to celebrate the boons of mass cousindom.
To maximise profit, large-scale commercial farmers coerced smallholders like Zillur to convert their freshwater fields into shrimp farms.
But it will not make Europeans more receptive to American-style measures, like the detention and coerced interrogations of suspected terrorists at Guantánamo Bay.
"We want to balance creating more options with making sure people don't feel like they're being coerced into stuff they don't care about," said McCollum.
