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.
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Saying "sorry to hear that mate" really doesn't get across what I want to say
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
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.
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.
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.
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!
I thought it was illegal for non natives to own land on reservations?
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.
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?
There are a couple of actual natives in the House (Sharice Davids & Deb Haaland as well as two chuds), but yes.
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.
Well this is great to hear, thanks for the update! A little internet sleuthing says Choctaw may get one as well.
Check in tomorrow for the DNC Black Caucus Meeting, with our guest, Justin Trudeau!
This shit is why I believed The Onion post about the DNC granting AOC more time for supporting the invasion of Iraq.
Who makes these decisions? How can anyone greenlight this?
What's going on? Are they actually trying to throw the election?the big structural bailey's on fire, and there's no driver at the wheel
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?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.
The government is corrupt and were all on so many drugs with the radio on and the curtains drawn
We're leaving the record player on at night so we can learn more, uh, you know the thing.
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
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.
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.
When we were on Reddit I had coined the terms pocahonky and fakeahontas for her. I’ll be here all week folks.
watching the democrats literally become the bush administration is beautiful in its way
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.
Ads glorifying John McCain and Biden’s relationship with him. The dems gave up Bernie for this shit.
