i learned the average life expectancy for men of pine ridge south dakota is 48 years. cool stuff america
https://www.aljazeera.com/features/2016/11/2/life-on-the-pine-ridge-native-american-reservation
i did a paper on health issues among native Americans and its very sad
I watched a good movie called Skins the other day, it's about a the relationship between two brothers who're born and raised on the Pine Ridge rez.
As a fiction snob who spends a lot of time thinking about narrative and story it's not a very good movie. The plot is disjointed and strange and the tone whiplashes from fairly serious stuff to being a goofy comedy to being a sappy melodrama. Though the core narrative about these two brothers is good. One's a straightedge cop, one's an alcoholic on his last leg. They fight a lot. They love each other. It's a family story.
But, more importantly, as someone who has visited Pine Ridge, and who has known native people, there's an element of the film that's very true to life to what life is like on the rez. I mean, it's a movie, but reservations in general and Pine Ridge in particular are impoverished legacies of the time white settlers put all the natives in concentration camps that a lot of native people are still stuck in today.
I mean fuck, look at this shit . In the '50s they built a dam on the Missouri River to build a power plant and create Lake Oahe. As a result the Standing Rock Reservation was flooded, losing their most valuable farmland, the wiki says whole towns are underwater. They never received compensation. And that's not to mention the pipeline protests.
becoming a leftist honestly has made me feel more alienated in a way. every day I just get angry thinking about neoliberalism and how even among my more politically aware friends, many of them just have something about them that makes them libs that really bothers me. I don't really have any irl leftist friends, maybe need to get to organizing opportunities or mutual aid more
I feel you completely. It's important for us to remember though, that solidarity is at the root of all leftist values. Compassion for your fellow humans, even the stupid ones (especially them tbh) is necessary to accomplish anything, plus you'd be surprised how many will come around.
Also, you'll meet irl leftists eventually. That spark when you realize you've met another in the wild is pretty fuckin magical.
Realized recently that a long-time friend who I hadn’t been spending much time with over the past 5 years or so is a leftist. We were hanging out and he mentioned to me he hates Elon Musk which was interesting. A few weeks later we were talking about what we had been reading lately and when I mentioned Mark Fisher he got all excited and told me how he’s a huge fan. Now he’s recommending me lectures to watch on YouTube and works by philosophers to read on how garbage neoliberal culture is, it’s great! Hang in there, you’ll find someone eventually. Plus, there’s all of us here.
Something that helped me with this is just accepting that everyone is allowed to have some brain worms. None of us are ideologically perfect, and all of us have brain worms in some capacity, so as long as you can agree with the most basic, most important stuff, it's not worth the effort to try to convert someone on some niche issue that only matters 5% of the time.
everyone is allowed to have some brain worms. None of us are ideologically perfect,
reject the revisionist theses, uphold marxism leninism hoxhaism
Ok chief, that's great, but we have to take theory in context. The second to last sentence here is key: "The result is that both the organization and the individual are harmed." There is no major class struggle party or organization in the United States (which I assume is where OP lives, but this is true for most of the western world anyways), so there's no issue there. The second part refers to the ideological growth of both people. I think most people here would agree that if you are trying to radicalize someone, you don't start out by giving them Marx and Lenin trying to argue with them on all fronts. That's just going to turn people away from you, which harms both of you. You work with people where they're at, and if where they're at is "my boss pisses me off," or "it's pretty fucked up that Trump is going to get another justice on the supreme court," then you work from there.
If this was all just a meme like the hoxha poster above, I apologize, comrade.
I'm posting once again to remind you that exercise is both cool and good.
That's so awesome! I just got an electric guitar earlier this week, a Squire Paranornal Offset Telecaster. Happy shredding comrade
I was supposed to get married tonight but we broke up. And here I am, on chapo.chat.
Thanks. Not a bit. We didn't break up just now or anything. This was just the date we had booked (which would have been canceled anyway because of coronavirus).
Heyooo I just relapsed and started playing runescape classic. Love love love lovin it rn (Relapsed on runescape btw. Just for clarity.)
He's hot, my fetish is reducing the human soul into that of a lowly vermin
My roommate got a heating pad for her leg and now that she's gone for the weekend it's become my cats new bed. He likes cooking his lil beans on it :comfy:
I wasn't expecting Trump to die but I'm still disappointed he isn't dead yet. I know it's kind of up in the air since Herman Cain said he felt fine before he died but man I really want to be able to laugh at the chuds if he eats shit.
In fairness, Jaimie Peck(? I think it was her) said a doctor friend told her the steroids he was on would make you "carry your own coffin to your grave." If he's still on that and dying, he'll feel great til he dies. We can hold out hope.
You guys probably know about this already but if not, scientists have stitched together the circulatory systems of young mice to old ones - and also ones in which they have induced alzheimers - and found that it has a rejuvenating effect on the old/diseased mice by measures of physical and cognitive performance. I think there are at least several recent studies on this and i assume it's the inspiration for "blood boys" and the california company(ies) that sell blood transfusions.
Tfw the rich are no longer only figurative vampires. Happy spooktober. 💀
netflix spookmas special doing apologia for elizabeth bathory when? 💀
th the tt ... we have a responsibility, we take an oath, to
rock it up
roll it up
do it all
have a ball
Raturday night
Raturday night
Wearing my sexiest clothes today & it feels so good. Finally dressed up in nice clothes for the first time since maybe March
you go, monarch of no particular binary gender!!!! go slay!
Wow thanks!! I hope you can feel as good as you deserve friend! I can bet you do look great. Wishing that was me <3
