Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing…after they have exhausted all other possibilities

Usually nothing. But if I need to it’s either Dead Can Dance or Ludovico Einundi.

Never be afraid to ask questions.

Learn from your mistakes, but it’s a lot easier to learn from others mistakes.

To me, masculinity means integrity, honesty, and decency.

Articulate your boundaries clearly and respectfully. Also understand your boundaries.

I’ve worked with a ton of working class guys who seem rugged on the outside. Most are reasonable and respond well to kindness and inquisitiveness.

Learn to ask inquisitive questions about someone’s life, and they’ll respond well and open up easily.

It’s easier to focus on what’s practical rather than getting mired in abstractions.

Just a few things off the tip of my brow.

I know we’re not a huge portion of these maps, but the pacific northwest is a distinct group. We can be called mountain hippies if you like.

An oldie but goodie, how the tea party fucks always ranted about FEMA death camps. It was beyond absurd.

Another lesser known black massacre was Wilmington. Here’s a great American Experience about it

Have read it and can confirm that it ought to be taught in primary schools. That along with 1491 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus.

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I’m an akleptic lover of music. I find most video game music lacking. In my 30 years of gaming, I usually turn off the in game music, leave the sound effects on, and use that opportunity to explore new music. That’s just me though. To each their own .

Fantastic Planet!

Based on that logic, ammunition and arms manufacturers should be held liable for damages as well.

As a mod on a few garden and science subs at that time, they were pernacious and ethically inept. They would associate anything anti-pesticide or GMO with being an anti science quack. And they would dog pile on poor individuals expressing concern.

I had several debates with them, often reported them for brigading, and ultimately had to ban them.

Understood.

I’m simply trying to highlight that what happened to the native Americans is not simply “an aside,” or a footnote in history but that it should take a sharp focus to what the US is or has been. This isn’t about competing special interest group atrocities, but a fundamental question that is at the core of representative democracy. Too often liberal democracy is simply another way to exploit others, and disallow “other” groups from participating.

From a native perspective, living on a reservation in the US currently, it wouldn’t matter much if it was run by republicans or democrats, as they both simply ignore treaties and obligations. From your perspective, it’s a dire existential crises, but to those who have been swept aside both in the past and the present, it doesn’t matter much at all.

I don’t know how you can separate the idea of colonialism from the formation of the US. Seems arbitrary and without any philosophical basis.

As it stands currently, black Americans have better standards of living, in almost all developmental indices, than native Americans. So by any scientific inquiry, native Americans have had it and still have it much harder than black Americans.

Not to be contrarian, but the original sin of the US is the genocide of the indigenous populations.

And it’s THE thing that few people want to confront.

They’re the 52nd state, right behind the UK.

No love for removable batteries?

How easily it is to normalize hate and violence to almost any human.