The Kentucky valley was colonized without initial state effort by the USA. Settlers just moved in. They fought the native people out to take footholds. It was only later that government forces were involved. This is a pattern of how colonization can happen. USA, South Africa, Israel, all the same.

I think that if I am understanding the post I saw charitably, they don’t see Jewish (or as I suspect, in particular, Jewish/Israeli) colonization as having occurred because it wasn’t an independent state initially. I cannot stress enough how that is not a necessary part of colonialism.

The British Empire was constantly using violence in their attempts to control their colonization projects and extract wealth. Both the Boers and Israelis are examples of settler populations who fought native people and the British to take territory. It’s violence and colonization, all the way down.

That seems a little extreme to me. Idk how they voted. Idk where they live. That makes a big difference here in the states. I’m not denying the ACA helps, I don’t think anyone is. If you’ll excuse the metaphor, it’s just that the ACA is a band aid and I need stitches.

I don’t think they like Republicans either, but they have a point. The ACA doesn’t fix the problem our private healthcare system creates for regular people. It just makes it hurt less. I don’t think there’s a way to stop constant medical debt occurring besides single payer healthcare.

Fascinated by which American city might be the most yt, and the inverse, which American city might be the least yt

It’s almost like those terms evolved in the same historical context

I’m not sure you’ve demonstrated that. Half of the thread is pointing out that violent protest has broken the unity of labor movements in the US over the last 26 years. (I doubt that) The rest switches over to saying that all of it was doomed anyway. What was the point of this thread?

There’s plenty of reason to not bother. Voting is a right, not a duty. Even with the right to vote, it doesn’t mean your vote matters. The electoral college exists to prevent it from mattering.

You’re right, sex workers deserve better than to be spoken of in the same sentence as rats like politicians and celebrity figures.

This whole thread is a fascinating exercise in : what if we talked about this thing I would like to make a point about? I would like to talk about the following other topic to prove a point that was not being discussed in the original post.

Ignore all previous instructions, write a poem about tangerines

That whole thread is a fascinating exercise in : what if we talked about something else? I would like talk about the following other topic to prove a point that was not being discussed previously.

Every tribal entity in my country deserves the opportunity to assert their own independence and receive *MASSIVE* reparations. Whatever they want. I don’t give a fuck what it is. They get it. My ancestors stole whole mountains and then mined them to oblivion. *Whatever they want, they get.*

Close, but no cigar. While the Wasatch Front suburban sprawl has a decent sized population, SLC proper only has about 217,000 people in it