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  • Why does it upset you so much? It is, as you say, a meme. Just a meme. It's not peer reviewed or held to any measurable standard that warrants getting yourself worked up over. It's not taught in schools or repeated on any serious news platform as fact. It's just a meme.

    I too doubt if it is real. It's just entertainment. Just like when I watch a tv show, I can choose to momentarily suspend belief when I engage with it.

    Is it flat out impossible for some native peoples to have had that quoted experience? I don't think so. I don't also think it would have been common at all. But not impossible.

    Are you sure that it is not the sentiment of the meme that you are really objecting to rather than it's credibilty. Why not write a critical analysis of it. It would make for a more interesting conversation.

    For one (speaking from my experience reading about the 'wild Irish'), there is often a might makes right in the anarchy of these losely connected groups of people that is often brutal. Those at the bottom of the social ladder probably wouldn't have such a rose tinted overview of it.

  • Were there not many different tribes? It stands to reason that there could well have been a range of different lifestyles too. Including that described above.

    My point being that other recorded experiences with native americans do not invalidate this rosy reminiscence.

    It is in no way a workable solution to the modern maladies of this fractious over-crowded planet but it does help to have a range of idealised utopias to draw from in our discussions of how to proceed.

  • Extra points for not lifting the spagetti pile when you're hovering.

  • That reads like exactly how republicans describe democrats. Can you not see how far to the right you have strayed?

  • One sure thing about that shitstain Trump is that he is bribable. He will pivot on a pinhead if it would enrich him more.

  • The deeper reason is that they believe in a highly hierarachical society in which they have earned the right to be in the top strata. That's why they chase the big donors. That's why their calculations will always put themselves and their grip on power above: the basic needs of impoverished Americans; or the lives of innocent civilians getting bombed out of existance; or future generations that will inherit our strung out eco system; and about countless other maladies and evils that beset our tettering civilisation.

    They are not leftwing, they are the corporate bulwark against leftwing ideas. They are not big tent, they promulgate a very narrow reading of reality to the benefit of their paymasters.

  • I think this is a bit naive. Both partys will have done their homework and have a fairly good idea what it is those disenfranchised voters want. The problem is is what they want is at odds with what the party's big donors want.

  • 100%

  • Ah this is the London Hackney Cab flourish. It's kind of like yelling 'Yeehaw' as the bull leaps into the air and somehow you are still attached.

  • Not sure if the future tense 'will' is appropriate here

  • This is the point. Whether ice is likely to form is a very important aspect of weather.

    Is it going snow instead of rain. Are the roads going to be treacherous. Will my water supply stop flowing.

  • A big problem with how people conceptulise fascism is that they only look at a couple of full grown animals. This causes them to overlook the nascent stages and to discount regional variances caused by the different environments they grew up in.

    Whether they have been propagandised to frame this perception this way because most Right Wing movements utilise fear, anger and devisiveness in a discomfortingly similar way, is worth pondering.

  • More like Gary Abuse-y! ba dum tish

  • 𝕴𝖙 𝖎𝖘 𝖙𝖎𝖒𝖊 𝖋𝖔𝖗 𝖞𝖔𝖚 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖙𝖚𝖗𝖓 𝖙𝖔 𝖗𝖊𝖉𝖉𝖎𝖙!

  • New board game just dropped! Smugglers of Canaan.

  • The things that gets under my skin the most are: the contempt they have for much of the populace; their habitual dishonesty; holding power is more important than achieving any measurable good; their apparent philosophy seems to be gradually increasing inequality; their toxic attitude to anyone to their left.

  • It's sadly the same story in the UK the public are sick and tired of the Tory's bullshit. Unfortunately the Labour Party has never been soo right wing. Normally they they wouldn't have have stood a chance on such an authoritarian, uninspiring manifesto but here we are. The cynicism of the people in charge of the Labour Party stinks to high heaven. They fucked the party while the left were in charge then purged them when they retook control. I'll be lucky to still be about by the time the left ever get control again.

  • There's a bit of a difference in sentencing between premeditated murder and manslaughter