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.
No love for removable batteries?
“Blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds.”
How easily it is to normalize hate and violence to almost any human.
You can set up a jellyfin client on the Dell and control it from anything else. Jellyfin has clients for Linux Windows and Android. Once set up you can output anything from anywhere and control any of them from each other.
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Infinity Pool by David Cronenburg
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Psycho Goreman. It’s everything it should be and more, but doesn’t pretend to be anything that it isn’t.
Don’t forget about dorks, geeks, and spazs. We’re an inclusive community.
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.