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        OK so what is your problem with returning the land and power to indigenous groups? You surely don’t support the United States of America with its history of genocide, slavery, imperialism, and colonialism? Surely you would celebrate the downfall of a state worse than that of Nazi Germany whose most progressive leader (by its own adminission) is a genocide-supporter and border fascist. fascist.

        Surely the Indigenous groups wouldn’t be worse than the blue or red ghouls?

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          oh no it’s time for circles

          what’s your plan for returning power to indigenous people without involving a group that’s currently in power (and therefore predominantly white, since racism exists), without having right wing populists use the power vacuum to seize control?

          again, a group of people that’s been oppressed to the degree native americans have is not in a position to govern a nation like america

          do you deny the oppression that native americans have faced?

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              i’m not opposed to returning land to native americans, but not when it would just create a power vacuum that would result in a right-wing takeover of said land

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                  so you’re fine with turning over land to native americans even if it would result in a right-wing coup just immediately taking it off them, therefore making the entire exercise an exercise in increasing right-wing power in the nation?

                  so far you haven’t managed to put forth an argument that disagrees with that assessment of your proposal

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      And you are denying the genocide that’ll happen to those indigenous you propose are going to somehow take over the country.

      1. The military. There is at least one greedy general out there that’ll attack with our trillions worth of weapons research.
      2. The nature of the indigenous communities. Okay, so you’re giving them to “the Native Americans”. I’m assuming that means all of them? Look at this infograph. They occupy less than 10% of USA’s land and are spread out incredibly sparsely. If you just give it to one of them, well, that actually would solve a problem. But which one will you give it to? Is the Fox nation racially superior to the Sioux nation? If you give it to all them, they will have to effectively communicate, which is undercut by
      3. The nature of the indigenous communities. Quite a bit of these communities have been recognized by the government as wards of the state and have been isolated by mutual consent. Now you’re gonna entrust someone to hand them modern communications, weapons, tools, etc and not use these technologies to take power away from the indigenous instead. How exactly do you propose a power transfer to happen?
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      4 months ago

      Native Americans

      Latinx immigrants

      Palestinians

      Sudanese

      Jewish people

      Working class people

      Asian people

      Many Central and South American groups

      You are being ignorant by asking “by what metric” for a nation founded on genocide

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        Jewish people

        you’re comparing the us’s genocide to nazi germany and jewish people were the ones you chose to bring up?

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            oh no it’s time for circles

            please qualify what you mean by “objectively worse than nazi germany”

            thank you

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              We have exterminated more people and we continue to discriminate against more marginalized groups. (E.g., 70% of Americans believe there is a “border crisis” and support the Palestinian genocide)

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                We have exterminated more people

                the numbers don’t back this up

                continue to discriminate against more marginalized groups

                “nazi germany was so bad it doesn’t exist anymore so they can’t continue to discriminate” isn’t a very good argument