Aboriginal Australians—have lived on the continent for over 50,000 years. Today, there are 250 distinct language groups spread throughout Australia.
Aboriginal Australians are split into two groups: Aboriginal peoples, who are related to those who already inhabited Australia when Britain began colonizing the island in 1788, and Torres Strait Islander peoples, who descend from residents of the Torres Strait Islands, a group of islands that is part of modern-day Queensland, Australia.
Br*tish settlement :ukkk:
When British settlers began colonizing Australia in 1788, between 750,000 and 1.25 Aboriginal Australians are estimated to have lived there. Soon, epidemics ravaged the island’s indigenous people, and British settlers seized Aboriginal lands.
Though some Aboriginal Australians did resist—up to 20,000 indigenous people died in violent conflict on the colony’s frontiers—most were subjugated by massacres and the impoverishment of their communities as British settlers seized their lands.
The Stolen Generations :aus-delenda-est:
Between 1910 and 1970, government policies of assimilation led to between 10 and 33 percent of Aboriginal Australian children being forcibly removed from their homes. These “Stolen Generations” were put in adoptive families and institutions and forbidden from speaking their native languages. Their names were often changed.
The struggle continues :red-fist:
Today, about three percent of Australia’s population has Aboriginal heritage. Aboriginal Australians still struggle to retain their ancient culture and fight for recognition—and restitution—from the Australian government.
The state of Victoria is currently working toward a first-of-its-kind treaty with its Aboriginal population that would recognize Aboriginal Australians’ sovereignty and include compensation. However, Australia itself has never made such a treaty, making it the only country in the British Commonwealth not to have ratified a treaty with its First Nations peoples.
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Bloomberg opinion twitter account did an angry thread (I think now deleted) about WSB and how they were fucking with the GameStop short sell. Apparently it's only market manipulation when it isn't large capital groups doing it. One of the tweets said how this is like Bitcoin where you suddenly make value out of nothing, imagine thinking stocks aren't already almost entirely divorced from reality.
[Adam Curtis voice] Then, A Funny Thing Happened
by the time this is over we are going to have an influx of freshly radicalized fence sitting libs and libertarian bros.
It's still there, it's amazing how much they're trying to hide that people on reddit just looked for a heavily shorted stock and then short squeezed some hedge funds, just as a) short-terms were expiring and b) a vaccination plan was unveiled by the Biden administration, re-kindling interest on old brick and mortars.
"Guys what if it's nihilism theory, what if gamers on reddit are bored and want to spend 10K on stonks" lmfao
WSB shows that the whole thing is a game, a charade, and we can't have the proles finding that out!
Honestly kind of amazed at the short expiring right now on GameStop. A new generation of consoles just released, and every one GS gets will get sold out for probably close to a year whether they're physical stores are open or not. It seems that in a sane economy GS stocks wouldn't drop too much in the time period when they're experiencing relatively good sales.