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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  • snott_morrison [comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    Reminder that Aboriginal and First Nations Australians are the most incarcerated people on earth. It's arguably one of the most sucessful acts of genocide and invasion that colonialism has done (someone correct me if im wrong)

    :aus-delenda-est:

  • FRIENDLY_BUTTMUNCHER [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    This past summer we had the largest protest movement since the Civil Rights Movement. When Trump got elected we saw the largest protest in American history with the 2017 Women's march. With the exception of a couple of streets getting renamed and a few pink knitted hats getting sold, they accomplished next to nothing. Showing up isn't enough; that's not what accomplishes our goals. What bends the politicians to our wills is marching with tens of thousands of people who will not go back to work unless demands are met.

    Seems to me that class consciousness is lacking more than anything else. With those kinds of numbers we could collectively drag the nation to its knees, but we need to do more than just show up. How do y'all figure we help people make that connection?

  • sailorfish [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    My favourite leftie meme is that leftie memes have way too much text. It never fails to crack me up

  • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.

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

    CNBC had a screenshot of a strangely normal sounding r/WallStreetBets comment but it was that guy's first comment ever and now the comment has 5k downvotes. They think CNBC made the acconut

    • vertexarray [any]
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      4 years ago

      I see why some folks here have a strange fondness for wsb. That's funny as fuck.

  • fuckwit [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    https://old.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/l4xxjm/they_dont_want_you_to_win_my_experience_with_wall.

    "Just a quick story of the psyche of some of the psychopaths on Wall Street and why this Melvin vs WSB thing is bigger than you realise. My great uncle works for Pimco - its a global investment firm with over 1.9 TRILLION (Yes with a T) of assets and securities under management. He is a senior senior senior executive with the firm. Im a working dude, I make like 40k a year if that. This guy has the amazing house with the ocean views, the yacht, the small plane, the holiday house - all of it. When I was hanging out with him I really wanted to dig down into investing, as he has been doing it all his life and has been very successful at it. It was an incredibly awkward conversation and he simply did not want to engage at all - and told me that investments should only be done by firms like his and that normal people like me should pay fees for firms like his to invest money. It started to click with me that there are thousands of fund managers just like him around the world shit scared that people like us take our own future into our own hands, and wont pay their fees. They are terrified that they are going to lose control of the game they have rigged against the working class for 50+ years. You could see it today on CNBC - fund managers screaming and having tantrums that little guys that make an hourly wage could trade options and make a few months rent in a day. They are fucking terrified of this new generation that can trade with confidence from an app on their phone, and make decent money if they are willing to put some risk and time in learning into it. Don't let these mother fuckers take your money, don't let the fear they have cloud your judgment. This last 12 months has been a turning point for millions of people who bought stocks or options for the first time in their life, and realised its not as scary as they were told by "the professionals". 500 GME @ 70.21. Fuck Melvin Capital for trying to rattle the newbies today."

    Leftists need to get rich. Learn the market, folks.

  • NeoJuliette [she/her,comrade/them]
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    4 years ago

    The woman next to me in yoga queefed repeatedly. Thick, wet queefs. At first it was funny, then she went on queefing for the rest of the hour. My emotions went fractal.

  • sydnerella11 [she/her]
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    4 years ago

    I feel horrible for Claudia Conway. I know this isn’t usually the place where we talk about that, but her mom leaked her fucking nudes. I was abused as a kid too and it’s sick how people get away with it because of their status. In my case, my parents aren’t on that level like at all but they had enough of a nice suburban image for people to overlook what happened to me and my brothers.