Enough with the "we're better than this" sanctimony from people who are occupying Indigenous land and holding wealth they accumulated via genocide and chattel slavery.
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Enough with the "we're better than this" sanctimony from people who are occupying Indigenous land and holding wealth they accumulated via genocide and chattel slavery.
The Constitution enshrined many specifics **because they made the slaveholders feel better.** Both the Electoral College and the uneven makeup of the Senate are directly linked to upholding slavery. We never had a democracy; it has far more features of a republic.
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I remember when 45 Trump used DoJ attorneys to handle his personal affairs and everyone flipped out about it being unprecedented. They said no president had ever used the federal government to handle unseemly personal affairs. George Washington did. He used federal employees to track down his runaway slaves while in office. He used political connections with people he was technically the boss of to do a little "hush hush" handling of a controversial personal affair. From president 1 my guys
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@nat it's the same bullshit in canada.
currently asking someone i used to attend a festival with why they're campaigning for the Ontario NDP after they spent the past year saying nothing about what Israel was doing, and silencing a Black woman, MPP Sara Jama, who dared to say anything or express any kind of solidarity with Palestinians. she is now sitting as an independant candidate because her own party blocked her from being nominated for re-election.
apparently that's just not racist enough for him to refuse to do chump work for them.
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@burnitdown yeah, just so strange to watch all the leftists get hella patriotic all of a sudden. I'm not condoning what's happening, fascism = bad... But the pearl-clutching about our pReciOUs deMoCRacY is truly wild after all the "burn it down" rhetoric.
(ha, just noticed your handle after writing that!!
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replied to Nat Oleander last edited by@nat "The framers of the US Constitution, for example, were quite explicitly anti-democratic and made clear in their own public statements that they designed the Federal Government in large part to head off the risk of ‘democracy’ breaking out in one of the former colonies (they were particularly worried about Pennsylvania). Meanwhile, actual direct democratic decision-making had been practised regularly in various parts of Africa or Amazonia, or for that matter in Russian or French peasant assemblies, for thousands of years; see Graeber 2007b."
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