Liberals seriously need to be forced to read This Nonviolent Stuff’ll Get You Killed.

Arm yourselves people.

It is regrettable and not the path we choose but the one the oppressors choose for us.

Any and all acts of violence against apartheid, or the state and its cops under capitalism, is self defense.

It shouldn’t. Death to Amerikkka.

Killing landlords and slave owners.

That is literally what Rapid City is built on.

Meanwhile the average household income at Pine Ridge (not individual income, whole household) is aboud 10-13k per year.

Could start by not gatekeeping your article behind a fucking demand for my email

putting them on the same level as ICE centers and concentration camps

You’re right they were way fucking worse than that.

Have you actually been to a reservation? And not one of the “good ones” (disgusts me to even split hairs like this) but I mean like Pine Ridge. They are literally death camps in all but name.

A couple years ago one elder was burning his own clothes to keep warm and not freeze to death, another elder died in his home because his fireplace went out while he was sleeping. Drug abuse is rampant kids are killing each other over scraps, there was a shooting at a powwow last year in the middle of sun dance. There is almost no drinking water that isn’t contaminated by the nearby bombing range and uranium mines.

The average life expectancy on Pine Ridge reservation TODAY is lower than it was in Gaza before the recent bombings started.

Oh and just to get there, the tribes around the black hills were sent on a forced death march through the badlands to settle in the least desirable land in the region.

This is where they were sent:

Well luckily that isn’t what most indigenous people want but if they did that is not our place to disagree. Fuck your settler grandparents.

Not in this case you really arent

By all means sure protest and use it to get people to do something more but telling Dessalines who literally created this platform and did more actual work than most of us ever had to get off their chair and go protest strikes me as lost liberal behavior.

The fuck does that matter?

I reject the notion that you need to actually be helping in order to have an opinion.

Damn almost took you seriously for a second.

You’re just being a debate pervert now. Seriously you should go back. At least go back to reddit.

You get it. I just responded something similar in this same thread.

Not just reddit but very lib brain behavior. They need material support for people on the rez not some cracker with a white savior complex holding a sign at a rally.

Hi there I am one of those people with over 20 years of direct action work on this topic and some of my best friends are Lakota, if they wanted me to leave with the rest of my settler kin I would honor that and keep fighting for revolution elsewhere God knows if I got sent back to Ireland or Wales I would have plenty work to do. You should think very hard about why you are so defensive about this.

That said chances are if you actually put in the work and shut the fuck up about impracticality or whatever else excuse you use, you’d probably be allowed to stay. Hell my friends family invited me to a wedding out at Pine Ridge but sadly I could not afford the travel expenses to attend because my last trip out there to help them with the sun dance cost me a couple grand.

In conclusion stop white-splaning land back it is not up to us what it means.

Also to the point of “go to a protest” I would ask you to go to a reservation if they want your help and do something more meaningful than some toothless march.

Yes if they use AI the way the top suits who don’t understand it beyond the hype we are going to be in terrible (but sometimes hilarious) trouble in not that many years.

For a personal example, I use Salesforce software at a large company that distributes health products and the CEO recently boasted about how “60% of their work uses chatGPT” and anyone who has used the software can tell you it is not a good thing. The base functionality of the software isn’t even anything groundbreaking, I also use another program called NAV that does basically all the same thing but it’s not in a web browser and it doesn’t look as flashy (looks a lot more like Windows 98 and I love it for that) but it is so much more useable. Nonetheless our upper management wants to migrate everything to salesforce because it is more integrated with the whole MS office suite.

The only cool parts about this software were practically perfected by Chile’s cybersyn project in the 70s and fundamentally no different today.

I knew I was gonna find one of those galaxy brain libs in here lol.

Fun fact lots of deserts get snow!

Here’s the Badlands National Park in South Dakota in winter.

Desert as most modern ecologists define it is a region where the evaporation potential exceeds annual precipitation.

It’s not that it’s always hot, just that it is arid and the topsoil does not retain more water than evaporates each year.

I would love to read something like this, just as a curiosity. I fully intend to stick around and fight beside my comrades that can’t or won’t leave. But of course I have no kids and don’t plan to.