Erika3sis [she/her, xe/xem]

Trump is speedrunning his Tokugawa Shogunate arc, many people are saying this

Oh, I see, so you misunderstood the title of the article. Honestly though that would be AWESOME for real. It would make for a good party name or something, too.

In Norwegian it is known as Landsorganisasjonenthe National Organization iin NorgeNorway, hence the abbreviation LO.

This is perhaps a bit apropos, but when I was a kid, when I visited beautiful Anishinaabewaki in the summers, there was a game arcade my cousins and I would often visit. This arcade had the 1991 cabinet Road Riot 4WD, and I remember there was a character in that game called “Idi A Mean Dada” who was basically just a grotesque generic caricature of a stereotypical “African dictator”. Naturally this “Idi A Mean Dada” character was the host of the track “Timbuktu, Africa” – which looked nothing like Timbuktu – despite Timbuktu being some 6,500 km away from Kampala.

I said to my cousin, “This is… pretty racist…” and my cousin concurred. I believe my mom was, what, impressed that I could recognize and point out that it was racist? And I was just thinking, “Well, yeah, obviously.” – but I guess that just speaks to how normalized that kind of junk was back then.

I don’t really know much about the real Idi Amin, but yeah, he sure had A Place in popular culture didn’t he.

I don’t think replacing the current two arbitrary hard borders cutting ~70 Indigenous homelands in half, thereby preventing the Native citizens in these border regions from fully exercising their rights and traditional ways of life… With >100 arbitrary hard borders cutting I don’t even know how many Indigenous homelands into halfs or thirds or quarters… Would improve the quality of life of most Natives. Nor would it improve the quality of life of, really, anyone else in the region.

On the other hand, if you instead say that the Balkanized Seppoland just doesn’t have hard borders, then, well, how different is that really from the current arrangement? There would still be some sort of central organization managing the affairs between the states — at least when it comes to their borders — but the states themselves would be beholden to significantly fewer laws from above. This is a “small government” Republican’s wet dream.

The main thing is just that replacing a settler state with smaller settler states doesn’t actually resolve the contradiction. The states will still act in settler interests, in fact they’ll probably find some way to just more or less return to the current status quo. The way you help Native nations is to return land and respect treaty rights.

Always has been.

You might as well. If it goes poorly then surely you can just get rid of it later, right?

Wanna form a neolithic comedy duo with me?

The first thing to come to mind is “The Virus” by The Halluci Nation. I can’t guarantee that I’m not misunderstanding the question or whether this will be to your liking, but yeah. It’s got some heavy themes around Indigenous history and current issues, but shining through the whole song is a message of hope, pride and resilience, which only enhances the bass drop.

Don’t eat the chili. They put something in it ta make you forget. I don’t even remember how I got here.

Hahahhahahahahahha, yeah marge as in margarine. It’s not necessarily a standard term for it in my GenAm ass dialect but it is used in e.g. Canadian, Australian, New Zealand, Irish, and most notably British English, and I liked the sound of it, so I just decided to start calling margarine marge. Both Marge as in Marjorie Bouvier Simpson and marge as in margarine ultimately trace to an Ancient Greek word meaning “pearl”, as do the names of pizza Margherita and the margarita cocktail.

A bowl of rice with marge and shoyu

♫ EXCISE THE VULGAR MATERIALIST ♫

♫ FOR THE STRUGGLE OF THE CLASS ♫

♫ EXCISE THE VULGAR MATERIALIST ♫

♫ HE REFUSES TO CLEAN HIS ASS ♫

You’re jumping the gun and honestly being a bit smug about it. It says in the article “new structure of Zapatista autonomy”, which makes this sound less like a collapse and more like a cryptic announcement that they’re just restructuring…

…Noooow it could well be that the restructuring ends up bringing the movement closer to Marxism-Leninism, but y’know we’ll cross that bridge when we get there. For now it’s like, don’t diss them, OK? The Zapatistas are our friends.

Adolf Hitler? Socialist.

Franklin Roosevelt? Socialist.

Joseph Stalin? Dare I say, he was a downright pinko!

The entirety of WWII was just leftist infighting over Trotskyist revisionism. Just a big ol’ non-binary fuss over intercontinental ballistic tweets. Wake up, sheeple!

The emoji is called michael-laugh so evidently. I’m assuming you’re referring to Michael Jamal Brooks (political commentator, 1983-2020) as opposed to the inexcusable number of other notable Michael Brooks on Wikipedia.

I’m using Hexbear on a client that doesn’t support selecting emojis and my account is only like 15 days old so that’s a mood

By the way, I keep seeing this emoji, and I get that it’s supposed to represent laughter, but what’s the context behind it? Who is that guy?

And that’s why to this very day, faking the dissolution of a country while actually expanding it is referred to in communist circles as “gorbing it down Soviet style”