"I don't need to deconstruct, I've always had a good and critical relationship to faith"
β a person (me) who keeps listening to bible scholarship podcasts, just bought 3 more religious studies books, and can't decide if they should become an ordained minister or avowed atheist
Oh he's apologizing! Wow! For all the land that was stollen, right? For the trail of tears, right? For generations of genocidal US policy, right?
Right?
Today, I have the solemn responsibility to be the first president to formally apologize to Native peoples β Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan β for what happened during the Indian Boarding School era.
It's long overdue.
Iβve been saying for some time because it is true. Why didnt he do this? Because an official apology for the U.S. government policy of stealing land through fraudulent treaties gives Native American lawyers REAL ammunition to use in court toward redress of this ongoing injustice
"Invested" in tax-advantaged Real Estate Investment Trusts that buy single family housing, pricing working families out of home ownership and turning them into tenants subject to algorithmic rent-rigging.
"Invested" in art sitting in a state of untaxable grace in a Freeport shipping container.
"Invested" in Super PAC contributions aimed at legalizing corruption.
"Invested" in shares in bubble-inflated AI companies.
"Invested" in the hydrocarbon sector.
I mean I'm also very sick so maybe I'm just generally fragile, but the fact that a soaring score and the words "let me prove i love you" are enough to make me sob?? Not a good time
@ratlimit My guess is that in the 2020 elections (counting only federal races), the mode voter voted for Joe Biden for president, Chris Coons for senate, and Lisa Blunt Rochester for house of representatives (281k-ish voters in Delaware)