catalystloop

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 37 points 2 years ago (2 children)

then where he gonna go for his dunk fodder

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

idk man I see class consciousness building. It's drowned out by all the other shit most of the time, and that's by design, but it's happening. The Overton window is getting spread wide open like a gaping asshole. The bottom is falling out of the capitalist social contract, people are getting hungry. All the usual suspects are lined up to take the blame, but the old narratives don't go down quite the way they used to. There's a lot of balkanized fascism that has to be addressed. Maybe it'll take something on the scale of russia in WWI, but it's coming. We are living in the most interesting of times

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

great insights, thanks!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

yeah that's more of a blow to the trans people abroad with no access to prescribed HRT, unfortunately caught in the crossfire

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Huh. I see they had freely available hormone drugs for anyone who wanted them until recently, but then they banned them entirely. It seems like overall it's much less politicized and stigmatized by the government tho

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Et in Arcadia ego, Judge howdy-skull

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (14 children)

How is it for trans people in Chyna? I dont ever hear about them

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Part of this rests on tribal leadership. Granted they do a much better job than america given their resources, ie primarily the casinos. They have enough for subsidized education and healthcare for tribe members. It's usually not what you'd call great though. As you say, the average tribe citizen sees very little of the profit. Most of it stays in the casinos with the council or whoever's running the board. It's almost like the forces of capital corrupt any power structure they come in contact with.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Well, under our system the capitalists would do that even if the Native Americans got the whole continent.

Sounds like we need a better system.

If the land gets taken over by a bunch of megalandlords we can help them overthrow that system if they ask for our help, same as anyone

A bunch of megalandlords have taken over the land right now, no one's overthrown them yet.

I checked out landback's youtube. Don't get me wrong, the existance of Mt. Rushmore is a slap in the face to anyone who holds the black hills sacred, and indigenous people generally. I just don't believe it's status will ever be change as long as the US government continues in its current form.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (7 children)

The fuck do you mean that's gonna be true under pretty much all circumstances? 'Get their slice of the pie' this is capitalist mentality. The exceptional circumstances are the revolution, brother.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If ownership is communal how are reparations allocated? How has white supremacy been elimimated when it seems like a necessary step to achieve the goal, rather than an outcome thereof? Where does food sovereignty fit into this? Do you have any info I could read on the topic? Transformative stuff to work towards to be sure, but it seems kinda like you've just gathered a group of semirelated ideals you want to see achieved and then post-hoc grouped them under the banner of 'repatriation of native lands' without any sense for how the later affects the former

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