I’ll ask Jeeves before I ever use ChatGPT

Idk, Vance has always been distant from the rest of the administration, and simply put he has no rizz. Utterly sauceless. There’s nothing fun or whimsical about him that MAGA chuds can project a parasocial relationship onto.

Plus, his wife isn’t white, which is already a big problem for large swaths of the Trump base.

I just don’t think he has it in him to hold the MAGA coalition together

So we’ve got MAGA chud, Bernie Bro, Spanish anarchist, and… French guy?

I love checking Lemmy in the morning, and seeing all the German language Memes. I can’t read them, since I don’t know German, but I like knowing that they’re over there, doing their thing ¯_(ツ)_/¯

Historically, there were a few contemporaneous Panthers equivalents for other minority groups. The Hispanic one was The Young Lords

SDS

Funny you say that, there’s also a be SDS org that has been around since the US invasion of Iraq, but got a lot of press recently during the campus protests over Gaza

The part of me that thinks a Greenland annexation by the US is likely says it’s because they’re riding the high of kidnapping the president of a socialist country.

The part of me that thinks the US won’t do it says that there are too many top Military brass who are displeased enough with Hegseth, et al. and believe in the project of NATO enough, that the shoot down the idea and refuse to go along.

Thought this was the island from Pokémon Snap, at first

The first amendment auditor types tend to lean Libertarian, which hasn’t exactly been a been a hip ideology for a long time now. A number of them tended to be lacking in practical knowledge of the law or the constitution, and some seemed to be in it more for attention than for an actual dedication to ideas of free speech and civil liberties

Not all of them were like this of course, and there are folks out there dong good 1st amendment auditing type work, but there’s a reason that, on the whole, these types got made fun of.

First as tragedy, then as something else, I think

Eh, can’t say I agree with Thomas Hobbes on this. ICE is acting in the exact opposite of the state of nature, they’re the violent arm of the sovereign

Not necessarily, it would be more akin to a mutually assured destruction kind of thing

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.