So the news today is that both the Alberta separatists and the Quebec separatists have been holding (or seeking) meetings with the Trump administration — colluding with a foreign power in the service of its ambition to break up the country and absorb it piece by piece. For how long are we going to continue to treat this as a legitimate political “option”?
@menrai1241@sprucethedeer Yet they were enacted to destroy First Nations as distinctive groups.
And "present disparities" are a result of past government actions, thigh they basically constitute a humanitarian crisis. Yet you're arguing that there's no obligation to fix this?
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.
@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?
@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.
@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.
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.
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.)
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.)
@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.
@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.
"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."
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."
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.