Going through this right now

Yeah. I am Chicano but identify more with my indigenous side and am friends with plenty of Native Americans. I’ve always personally blamed Judeo-Christian thinking. The whole manifest destiny mindset is insane.

I mean read just a piece of how different things were before those religions came to this land.

A second, related factor was the absence of large domestic animals in North America, which meant that instead of the ‘intensive’, ploughing-and-manuring agriculture practised in Europe, Native American farmers used ‘extensive’ techniques, cultivating an area for a few years and then moving on to let the soil recover. Most groups - hunters and plant-gatherers as well as agriculturists - viewed land as a common resource rather than a commodity that could be owned. Tribes and families had the right to hunt, fish or grow crops in defined places, but the concept of a fenced-off parcel of land being the exclusive property of an individual would have been utterly alien to most, if not all, Native Americans. The Indian attitude towards land was part of a broader, more fundamental understanding of reality which underpinned the whole of native life. Although, again, there were enormous local variations in mythology and ritual, some of the essentials of this world-view were shared by many, if not most, cultures. Perhaps the most basic element was the belief in sacred power: the idea that everything in the universe was interconnected and possessed a spiritual force or energy that could affect the lives of ‘the people’ and of all other living things. Gaining power and the aid of powerful beings was absolutely vital: for success in hunting, plentiful crops, good health, thriving children and victory in battle. But power was also dangerous.

Source: Chapter 2 of The Earth Shall Weep by James Wilson.

What you’re worrying about is what you do after a blind watch

You’re right I downvoted but it was an actual slip of the finger while scrolling.

The one time cops tried to search my phone (local police not border patrol) I wouldn’t give my pin. They eventually gave it back but they wiped my phone.

I’d argue they’re insane for tolerating the stuff

People act like I’m insane when I do this

Brother you don’t know what we’re all doing in our private lives. We get on here to discuss. What the fuck is anybody supposed to be able to do on Lemmy? We are here to avoid the craziness out there and have a space for ourselves. I am involved in activism. I am involved in a couple programs locally. People are getting organized man. You are mad because you’re at home doing nothing but insulting people.

Maybe we should get into the field. there’s obviously a low bar.

You only insulted people and encouraged raiding a hospital.

This one actually caught me off guard

Yeah I’m right handed so pornhub is difficult. Anything with the right side of the keyboard.

I don’t think OP was making fun of the people who died at all. Rather this is probably how Trump (a demented narcissist btw) probably sees this whole situation. We gotta have some room of humor. I would agree with you if OPs joke was just “9/11 lol” but there’s a lot of context here.

You’re precisely right. I’m assuming you’re not American.

I grew up in rural America. Teachers told us things like the middle east hated us because we are free. It wasn’t until I was already in high school when schools complied and acknowledged the bad shit Christopher Columbus did but certainly not to the full extent. They would tell us about how bad all these other countries are and how great we are. We were taught about slavery but it was taught like racism was just over and there were definitely no lingering stink from that. They taught us the civil rights movement like it already happened and now we are the perfect country and minorities are well protected now :) even though once a bunch of Mexican kids, including me, got pulled into a room in 5th grade just for a teacher to tell us how we all looked like trouble makers. We were literally just sitting the commons waiting for classes to start. We weren’t even all grouped together. They rounded us together. I didn’t understand what I did wrong. Why was I being scolded for what I looked like? It wasn’t until years later I realized we were all Mexican in that room. I was too young to even consider that at the time.

We have to have these discussions and do our own research to see through it all.

Sorry for the unsolicited trauma dump btw but I figure it’s probably good to have that reality of America put out. I should say I grew up in extremely small towns. Like smaller towns than most country singers sing about lol

They really tried to cover that up

Who’s his arch nemesis though?

What’s updog?

Nah you get an “opportunity” to get experience to work an unpaid internship at a multi-million dollar corporation to put on your resume.

We’re saying we are seeing the end of that soon. We are being more oppressed over time