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Sorry I started sobbing uncontrollably when you expressed the slightest concern for my lack of human connection, and casually mentioned you think I deserve better than a life of isolation and loneliness. Super weird. Not sure what was up with that lol. You still think I’m cool and mysterious and sexy, right?
surprisingly forward-thinking of jim henson and co. to make a female character in the 70's that's allowed to be loud-mouthed and violent and kind of overwhelmingly romantic and even a huge bitch at times and not have a moment where any character asks her to change
going through all the muppet movies in a row made me realize that like. miss piggy was made in the 70's. and it's so rare even today to have a character like her. she's loud, she's selfish, she's funny, she's extremely vain, she's obsessed with romance, she's violent, she's kind of annoying, and there's not a single moment in any of these films where she's asked to tone down any of these personality traits. i am not joking when i say that miss piggy might be one of the best treated female characters ever written
its so fucked that not only did they erase our languages and beat and kill our people for using them but they stole the words of important tribes and important people and used them for the military and for trees and for food and for summer camps. average native american name is seen by non ntvs as a joke or something to use or consume, not a human being
i like that ppl r thinking abt town names and things thats very good to be aware of but just to be clear this is actually specifically about other things actually, the things everyone but those looking up their nation forget about
sequoyah was the man who created the tsalagi syllabary before it was ever a tree
if i try to look for apparel or crafts to show off my chickasaw pride, i get results for chickasaw plums which is just a specific species of plum before i get results about human beings
others have mentioned if they google their nations name they get boot companies before their nations website!
theres a tweet that still haunts me that was about a Quirky Quasi American Restaurant in europe or somewhere that was being funny by being cowboy themed and their steaks were named after native american nations. even outside the usa we are nothing but literal dead meat for others consumption
"blackhawk" "apache" - fuck theres a whole wikipedia page for the way weve had our names used for weapons used to colonize and kill us and others!
yes talk about town and location names but you need to look farther than that. it gets so much worse, i promise
“The reality is, is that the military is full of native nomenclature. That’s what we would call it. You’ve got Black Hawk helicopters, Apache Longbow helicopters. You’ve got Tomahawk missiles. The term used when you leave a military base in a foreign country is to go “off the reservation, into Indian Country.” So what is the messaging that is passed on? The continuation of the wars against indigenous people.
Donald Rumsfeld, when he went to Fort Carson Fort Carson, named after the infamous Kit Carson, who was responsible for the deaths of thousands of Navajo Dine people and their forced relocation. Donald urged people when speaking to the troops, that in the global war on terror, the U.S. forces from this base have lived up to the legend of Kit Carson, fighting terrorists in the mountains of Afghanistan to help secure victory. That every single one of you is like Kit Carson.”
The reality is, is that the U.S. military still has individuals dressed, the Seventh Cavalry, yes the same one that went in in Shock and Awe. The same cavalry that massacred indigenous people, the Lakota people, at Wounded Knee in 1890. That is the reality of military nomenclature. That is how the military basically uses native people and native imagery to continue its global war and its global empire practices,” Winona Laduke
Winona Laduke is a Native American activist and writer. She lives and works on the White Earth Nation in northern Minnesota. She is the executive director of Honor the Earth. She published the book, The Militarization of Indian Country.
Decolonization includes the paramilitary of the empire also May we see its death in our life time This as a whole adds to the continuing dehumanization of Indigenous people by ongoing settler state and why I as a native of color am anti cop and anti military Land back and death to all settler states
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its actually easy to de-enshittify your digital experience all you need to do is install this browser extension and this browser extension and this browser extension and input this custom script into the advanced box and go into your system settings and reconfigure all these options you didnt know existed and change your entire workflow and switch to this alternative operating system and this alternative web browser and this alternative chat client and this alternative word processor and this alternative- sorry that one turned out to be malware delete that one okay now double check your task manager for unwanted background processes and element block these ads and invest in a good VPN and append all your searches with AI blocking keywords and wait a few years until everything you just did becomes shitty too so you can do it all over again okay kitten. its literally that easy.
Europeans complaining about North America isn't even the pot calling the kettle black, it's the fire calling the pot hot.
This is Gaza, where not a single house remains standing. We are without shelter, without food, without water. We are dying. We are being bombed every day. We are beingThe destruction is greater. shot at in the middle of Gaza City. Where is the ceasefire agreement? Where is the humanity? They are shooting at and targeting people who go to get some firewood for their families to cook. We are truly oppressed. The bombing is still
the miserable bitch industry would crumble without me
The pilot -> astronaut pipeline makes complete sense but is also funny to me. There's a secret second sky and if you get good enough at doing sky you can do space.

I think it's impossible to disentangle decolonization without tackling food sovereignty which is impossible to address without wide scale ecological restoration. If someone is against ecological restoration it is absolutely not a stretch to say they're pro-colonization and pro-imperialism.

also if you research indigenous rights even a little bit the necessity of ecological restoration is front and center! Colonization purposefully and systematically destroyed, deforested, stripmined, and paved over indigenous lands. True decolonization absolutely requires restoring ecosystems. And you can misread this in bad faith and twist it into some sort of appeal to the primal untouched wilderness of ye olden times but you know very well that's not what I'm fucking saying.
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