• the_swagmaster@lemmy.zip
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    How did we get to this, I thought the progress he have made would have actually stuck in some people’s heads (I’ve voters). Unfortunately, some people don’t understand what the progress was for because all they think about are their wallets and control of others

  • Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    Early every year the seeds are growing / unseen, unheard, they lie beneath the ground. / would you know before their leaves are showing / that with weeds all your garden will abound?

    If you close your eyes, stop your ears / shut your mouth how can you know? / The weeds you cannot see may not be there / the seeds you didn’t hear my never grow.

    In January you still have the choice / you can cut the weeds before they start to bud / if you leave them to grow high, they’ll silence your voice / in December, you may pay with your blood.

    Close your eyes, stop your ears, /close your mouth and take it slow. / Let others take the lead while you bring up the rear / and later you can say you didn’t know.

    Every day, another vulture takes flight; / there’s another danger born every morning. / In the darkness of your blindness, the beast will learn to bite. / How can you fight when you don’t recognize the warning?

    Close your eyes, stop your ears / shut your mouth of course you know. / if weeds are let to be without your hand to fear / then what else can be? Of course they’ll grow.

    Today, you may earn a living wage / tomorrow you may be on the dole / though there’s millions going hungry, you needn’t disengage; / it’s them, not you who’s fallen in the hole.

    The weeds are all around us and they’re growing / it’ll soon be too late for the knife / if you leave them on the wind that around this world is blowing / you’ll pay for your silence with your life.

    So close your eyes, stop your ears, / bite your tongue and don’t you dare. / 'cuz if it happens here, they might not come for you / if they’re sure you really never cared.

  • Xerxos@lemmy.ml
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    Oh, you’ll be fine as long as you don’t have to work to live. If you are rich enough to live of the work of others.

    Everyone else is fucked. The plutocrats are going to make sure of that.

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    And just like everybody else, you forgot the Native Americans.

    You know, the ones that they’re trying to remove their citizenship based on some 140-year-old law that has already been superseded by other better law?

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      I really, really, don’t understand how/why Native Americans are treated so bad. It makes no sense to me. Then their artifacts and regalia will be copied or sold for top dollar. It’s insane.

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          Oh shit, why hadn’t that come up in my head? You’re right. I’m dumb.

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          I think it’s more about getting revenge on successful casino owners when the carrot in chief has failed multiple casinos.

          And also about getting rid of the loudest objectors to all of the oil pipe lines.

          Reservation land is typically pretty terrible. I’m from Pine Ridge and that is a fucking poverty hellscape of a place.

          Nobody wants to be there.

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            This goes beyond one president, literally back to the founding of the country. It’s not just some grudge held by this particular president. Even Obama has done some heinous shit to natives in regards to their land and rights.

            The reservations have always been a set off moving goal posts that have been granted, moved around, and revoked—regardless of how ‘good’ or ‘not good’ the land is. The US government (read: capitalism, bc that’s what it’s always been) wants ALL the land.

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              You…

              I really want to insult you right now, but we’re literally talking about Trump taking away my native citizenship.

              Natives have only been citizens for roughly 100 years,

              President Cock smoker is trying to take it away.

              Your whataboutism isn’t going to keep my family American and out of the detainment camps.

              So put that stupid shit in your peace pipe and smoke it.

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                What are you talking about? I’m not defending Trump, or using whataboutism? I’m trying to explain the history of consistent oppression of native peoples. It’s unfortunately as old as white people coming here in the first place; Trump is just the latest flavor of awful. This country is literally founded on genocide, and just about every president has partaken.

                I live in Oklahoma, my spouse is a tribal member, as is my child. I’m extremely close to the issue and try to make myself as educated on the topic as I can. I also try to educate others, since a lot of people genuinely don’t know how far back this shit goes, as our education system deliberately leaves it out. That’s what I was trying to do here.

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      One of my best friends in childhood was Duwamish, and his family had it rough. Haven’t seen him in 50 years, and all that was forgotten come meme-making time. I’m guilty as charged, sorry.

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      I think that society becomes hopeless at some point. Ruled by 5th-generation lizard monsters. You can’t fight that.

      Attend to the health of your own soul. Cultivate your own garden. Buy a gun.

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    And yet there is so many people thinking they will make an exception for them.

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      “I’m one of them, surely they will spare me as I’m part of the group, right?”

      schadenfraude, we’re gonna live of schadenfraude for 4 long years

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        If we’re lucky then Trump dies, there won’t really be another cult of personality like him. Even now he’s coasting on his old persona, he’s just a grumpy old man with limited ability to remember much of anything.

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    Nobody’s going to be fine. Tariffs on our 3 biggest trade partners are going to raise the prices of nearly everything by 25%

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    I’ve always considered Musk to have the look of the Innsmouth about him; pale clammy skin, wide eyes clumped above his guppy jaw. I hope he will be lured by the ancestral calls and return to the murky depths in due course.