They meant the verb, not the noun

Sure, in some instances that was the case, but it’s wrong to assume that indigenous north Americans didn’t have cities or large scale agriculture.

Agricultural practices in Cahokia for instance, wasn’t a European style monocrop. Rather, “Farming at Cahokia was biologically diverse and, as such, less prone to risk than was maize-dominated agriculture” ^(see link above)^

And Cahokia was, for a time, the political and economic center of much of indigenous north American, with the city itself being of comparable size to many European cities in the same period.

So, there were indigenous societies that were highly class stratified, or did bad things to the environment. No one is denying that.

But generally speaking, indigenous peoples in say, the Americas, developed methods of agriculture and other forms of production that were more ecologically sustainable for their respective continent, than the European methods that settlers brought, and then revised to be more extractive.

The dust bowl, for example, didn’t just happen. It was a product of Colonialism. A region which was relatively recently colonized, had its forests and grasslands ripped up, in favor of shallow rooted monocultures that couldn’t sustain drought conditions.

There weren’t dustbowls for the millennia prior to colonization, but a sudden shift in the mode of production, to a highly extractive one, artificially produced an ecological disaster

There’s another layer of complexity here that you’re glossing over, I think, and that’s class dynamics within the Maori population.

It could both be true that traditional Maori lifeways were more sustainable, and that modern, Maori owned fishing companies are over fishing. Let’s assume all of that is correct for a minute

The coming of the white man didn’t ruin the sustainability of fishing, because of something ontologically bad with white people, but because they enforced an extractive, capitalist, economic system onto the region.

Colonialism pulled the Maori into a broader world system which generated a group of Maori with enough capital to, say, found fishing companies, and a wide swathe of Maori who can’t.

And paradoxically, that capital generation from unsustainable, capitalist, fishing practices is probably one of the things that allows Maori communities to have a degree of sovereignty, all the while said fishing practices are undermining their ability to continue to sustain themselves.

Post hog, loser, I bet my girldick is bigger than yours

An important correction. Indigenous people are still here, and their genocide is ongoing, it simply shifted to social murder, and building oil pipelines through their territory

…i don’t follow what you mean

That’s because France has a highly unionized workforce, and a population that will riot in the streets of the president so much as sneezes wrong.

It’s not about principles or morals, it’s that the material realities for labor in the US are very different. Not to mention, this general strike date was chosen in 2023.

Plus, it’s not like nothing is happening. The lead up to the 2028 general strike necessarily involves a ton of organizing. I’m in an org that’s currently seeding strategic industries in the area, in preparation for 2028.

Beyond labor, the No Kings protests were, numerically, some of the largest in US history. They didn’t do much, on their own, but things like that are great for networking and pulling people into more granular organizing.

Not to mention that, beyond your average suburban liberal mom, peripheral parts of the American population (ie. Black, indigenous, immigrant, and queer communities) are very active, via various mutual aid campaigns, resistance to ICE etc.

I’m not sure what people expect, tbh. A small fraction of the US workforce is unionized, labor law is a labrynthine mess (hence why the mechanic of a general strike being used here, is for unions to align their contract expirations with a certain day), and organizing this shit takes a lot of time and effort.

Every year or so, someone thinks they can just summon a general strike from Nothing, by starting a hashtag, and it never works, because this shit is hard

May 1st, 2028

The US already did its Lebensraum when it genocided an entire continent of indigenous people groups to build Ford F-250s and decaying strip malls with Evangelical churches in them.

The US isn’t looking to ethnically cleanse and replace the populations of the entire Western hemisphere, just flagrantly steal their shit, and subjugate them.

Oh, we’re declaring random general strikes on social media again, are we?

This shit takes a very high level of labor organization, class consciousness, and coordination.

The UAW is already pushing other Unions in the US to align their contract negotiations in 2028, to instigate a kind of general strike. Are you helping organize that? Because you sould be

Or like when the Korean war was called a “Police Action”

The Obama administration knowingly bombed a civilian hospital

Actually Be a girl, I guess?

I’m trans, I’ve been on HRT for a few years now, started on a low dose, and have slowly been bumping it up.

Problem is, I know nothing about clothes makeup, etc. And the fact that I’m colorblind makes that stuff feel incredibly difficult.

A number of cis women in my life initially seemed really supportive when I initially came out, but in trying to reach out, and ask for guidance they’ve largely been really cold and unhelpful :/

This was me as a kid. I always played boy characters when given the option, and video games didn’t exactly feature a lot of female protagonists.

When I played the original Resident Evil 2, when I was 12, that changed though. I originally played the Claire A story, and while being Claire was neat, I was 12 and being a cool girl who rides Motorcycles wasn’t exactly a super legible experience to me.

And then Sherry got introduced, and I was hooked. I was a very shy, quiet kid, who was easily scared. So the introduction of this scared little girl into the story was VERY legible to me. And when you’re tasked with playing as her, as bad mechanically as those segments were, I was a mess! I wanted to be her so damn bad!

Discovering my transness was a long process but that was one of the big early steps I took in starting to figure this shit out

That would be rad, but that’s not the timeline we live in

Yeah, for any gringos with a limited Knowledge of indigenous history, imagine if ISIS genocided 99% of the world’s Catholics, and then built a giant statue of its founders on top of the ruins of the Vatican.

That’s what Mt. Rushmore is

Let me clarify then, because I think people want to look at rhetorical signifiers more then actual history.

The collapse of Socialism in Eastern Europe produced an immense amount of material suffering. Angst about that suffering, in the wake of a both Socialism and Capitalism being seen as failures, has produced a political millieu that hinges very heavily on various nascent fascisms and ethnic nationalisms.

In Ukraine, tensions between ethnic Ukrainians in the west, and ethnic Russians in the east simmered for long time, and one of the things that caused tensions to rise was a law very similar to this Latvian one, which clamped down on the language rights of Russian speakers in the east.

Ukrainian parliamentary representatives got into whole ass brawls about it, Russian separatist movements began brewing, and the west, seeing an opportunity to influence a country on Russia’s borders, helped give a considerable push to the Maidan in 2014.

Russia, in turn, backed the Russian separatists in the Donbas, citing the protection of ethnic Russians, among other things.

The internal contradictions within Ukraine, stoked by the west, escalated external tensions with Russia such that Russia saw the need to invade, and create a buffer between themselves and NATO.

The Baltic States love nothing more then to screech about Russian oppression, but they’re proceeding to reproduce the same internal contradictions that spiraled out and led to war in Ukraine.

My question “are they stupid?” Is rhetorical

Tl;dr - Capitalism is incapable of solving the national question

Buddy, I agree with you. Please gain some reading comprehension instead of trying to get sick dunks in.