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  • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Do you guys ever stop to think about how there is 0 native representation in this country for anything? Don't even have like a half-assed "federal representative of the tribes" or anything like that, closest you're allowed is a White Anglo w/ 1/32nd Cherokee in her blood failing a presidential campaign and giving you your consolation prize via a zoom-call. Wonder how different things would be if the native tribes had literally any say in how we did things here.

        • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
          hexagon
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          4 years ago

          I should add that I'm not native myself; about half the people in my area are tribal members. Your sympathy and support should go to them before it goes to me. It's pretty fucked out here but the semi-sovereignty and cultural/social structures might make it an interesting place to experience a possible future balkanization

          • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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            4 years ago

            So how did you end up on the rez? Marriage?

            E: Obviously if you don't want to answer that's cool, it is a bit of a personal question.

            • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
              hexagon
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              4 years ago

              I came out to manage a white person's farm a decade ago, now I am the whitey who owns the farm. Probably gonna give the property over/back to the confederated tribes when I die.

              • Dear_Occupant [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Wow, that sounds like quite the story. You can do... a hell of a lot of cool things from that position. I'm having my first go at sustenance farming in my city yard and it's definitely not what I expected. I am not competent to make any suggestions about how you should respond to the coming collapse, but I would definitely recommend you start keeping a diary if you don't already. Not keeping a diary is my second-biggest regret in life, the first being that I never learned how to make music.

                • pyjammas [none/use name]
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                  4 years ago

                  the first being that I never learned how to make music.

                  it's never too late! and you can start the hobby cheap. go for it!

                • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
                  hexagon
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                  4 years ago

                  Different reservations have different laws. Where I am whites can own property but most of the uncultivated land (mountains, forests) and some of the ranch/farmland is owned by the tribes.

          • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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            4 years ago

            I know your perspective is different being not a member of a tribe, but what is a reservation like and how does it differ from other towns or municipalities?

    • regul [any]
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      4 years ago

      There are a couple of actual natives in the House (Sharice Davids & Deb Haaland as well as two chuds), but yes.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      4 years ago

      Read an article recently that a Cherokee tribe was pushing for a non-voting seat in congress in line with a treaty they signed centuries ago.

      • Leon_Grotsky [comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        Well this is great to hear, thanks for the update! A little internet sleuthing says Choctaw may get one as well.

  • poppy_apocalypse [he/him, any]
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    4 years ago

    This shit is why I believed The Onion post about the DNC granting AOC more time for supporting the invasion of Iraq.

  • CoralMarks [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Who makes these decisions? How can anyone greenlight this?
    What's going on? Are they actually trying to throw the election?

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      the big structural bailey's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel

      • CoralMarks [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        I'm really confused, because I mean of course I expect shit from this.
        But this just makes absolutely no sense and will obviously be weaponized against the Dems, how stupid can you be?

        • Rojo27 [he/him]
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          4 years ago

          It's like they're lobbing the ball up for Trump so that he can violently dunk on them. It's almost like they're doing out of their way to prove they are paid to lose.

      • JmWave [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        The government is corrupt and were all on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn

      • ass [he/him,comrade/them]
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        4 years ago

        imagine living in that headspace, fucking horrifying lmao. Your mind palace is just like a fuckin melted gingerbread house crumbling in on itself House of Usher style, just full of like drooping candy effigies of the SNL cast, and you turn the corner and it's that scene from the shining where someone in a bear costume is giving a dude a blowjob but the dude is Joe Biden

    • blobjim [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      They're giving American Indians, black people, latinos, climate activists, etc. the middle finger at every opportunity just to rub in how powerless people are. I mean, they're sociopaths, it's what they do when they aren't murdering people.

  • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
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    4 years ago

    Supposedly this specific segment wasn't necessarily just for people who are actually indigenous, but even if that's the case she still shouldn't have been anywhere NEAR this.

    It's like having that one white lady who pretended to be black speak at the black caucus or whatever.

    • joshuaism [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      You know at least Rachel Dolezal was married to a black man.

    • Mardoniush [she/her]
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      4 years ago

      Well I guess they're rolling it on the critical failure table.

    • Sushi_Desires
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      4 years ago

      Yeah it's such a neoliberal brain move lol

    • coeliacmccarthy [he/him]
      hexagon
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      4 years ago

      watching the democrats literally become the bush administration is beautiful in its way

    • Jorick [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Is ... is this for real ? You have republicans speaking there, and now the BRRRR guy ? Restart the simulation already, I can't take it anymore.

      • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ads glorifying John McCain and Biden’s relationship with him. The dems gave up Bernie for this shit.