Adam C in DE

🇨🇦 self-exiled to 🇪🇺.
SocDem | music and Star Trek geek | He/Him

[Shaun Pinner @ShaunPinnerUA]

Our family home in Mariupol has been stolen. We can see on Google Earth that it now has new occupants.

This is what Russian occupation looks like with families driven out, property stolen and corruption thriving.

Russian “liberation” is just theft by any other name.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@menrai1241 @sprucethedeer "History".

This history has created an ongoing humanitarian crisis that gives rise to that debt.

And what should we call trying to destroy a distinct ethnic group by breaking up their families and trying to destroy their culture?

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@TechGuyChris2 @Rikkisan26553 @sprucethedeer And given some of the bullshit spouted on this topic elsewhere, I'm not inclined to take you at your word without something to back it up.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@TechGuyChris2 @Rikkisan26553 @sprucethedeer It's amazing how you put words in my mouth about Native Americans being pure and perfect victims, which I never said.

My response was to you claiming that that they were just as bad as the colonizers, for which you've provided a claim without any evidence that I can check.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

This, by the way, was always the only way that these services were going to work. The shows and movies they made fit it were too expensive to ever work.

The library was always the selling point. But you can’t charge $20 a month for that and they aren’t content to charge less.

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

Revisiting Wolfman and Colan’s “Tomb of Dracula”, and love that there - in bringing Dracula to the modern world - is an entire issue about Dracula getting pissed off at having to deal with seventies air travel.

(Tomb of Dracula #36.)

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

The thing about “From Hell” is that it is such a dense world that you can just forget that Moore and Campbell open the chapter featuring the first murder with the literal conception of Adolf Hitler. In untranslated German.

What a comic.

(From Hell #3.)

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@Blingo_Borgundi Maybe we shouldn't have driven them to alcoholism by throwing them in abuse factories that we had the gall to call schools.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@Blingo_Borgundi @sprucethedeer Well except we're still dealing with the after effects of trying to forcibly assimilate First Nations in the form of widespread poverty and a demoralized population. And that was due to conscious policy choices.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@MxSilverWare @sprucethedeer Sorry, it just stuns me that people keep bringing up First Nations fighting each other when supposedly enlightened Europe came up with industrialized genocide in the 1940s.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@MxSilverWare @sprucethedeer And THE HOLOCAUST.

[Spruce @sprucethedeer]

"Native Americans were killing each other" as if Europeans didn't slaughter pagans and women they accused of being witches

[Samael @waltjessexo]

"And I couldn’t stand up, my legs bent. And a young boy, around your age […] approaches and tells me 'Teacher, let's go, because if they see you they kill you!' and the young boy stood in front of me and a damned bullet pierces through him. Pierces his head."

[Samael @waltjessexo]

CBS reporters meant to report on the Olympics were safe by their status as white USAmericans. As such, they reported in English:

"How many people died may never be known. The governtment will do its best to keep the reported figures low. But it must have been many."

[Darren Mooney @Darren_Mooney]

It’s going against whatever the hive on here is, which often has no relationship to reality whatsoever. And often, the further that hive is from reality or consensus, the more intense it gets.

Like the wrong thing, they lash out. Dislike the wrong thing, they lash out.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@menrai1241 @sprucethedeer If your response is to complain about "guilt" in the face of injustice, I really don't know what to tell you.

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@menrai1241 @sprucethedeer While in America the government took land by force to open it up for settlers. So a broad swath of the American population benefitted from depriving Native Americans of their resources.

My response to this to be angry and demand we do better. 🔽

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@TechGuyChris2 @Rikkisan26553 @sprucethedeer Oh they kidnapped each other's children, sexually abused them and beat them for speaking their own language like in the Residential Schools?

As for the nothing can be done part:

https://t.co/VLasUaj6Gh

[Adam C in DE @AdamNCrocker]

@Art_Wanderlei @Rikkisan26553 @sprucethedeer Well no, the point is that countries like the US and Canada need to make restitution to their indigenous populations and treat their culture and people with basic respect.

Your point abstracts a real issue to utter meaninglessness.