Thanks Trump and Putin. Just what future generations of children need, more fucking landmines. /s

They do, also it’s a wider talent pool and more chance of recruiting the best and brightest.

If you use the wrong past tense all the time, that will definitely make you sound like a hillbilly.

Assuming that whites are entitled to “become” Indigenous through being an ally is incredibly problematic though.

I mean this gently but I think you need to learn about colonization a lot more broadly. Fanon is a product of his time. I’d encourage you to look at South Africa, India, Zimbabwe, and also pay some attention to contemporary Indigenous activism in settler majority countries where there is often an appetite for separate sovereignty.

Thanks!

Compelling argument.

Me too. It’s the one word that triggers something in my brain.

Oxford spelling, Oxford comma: what’s not to like?

Anything with a United Nations style spellcheck will sort it for you.

Depends on the tense.

I burn the toast.

I have burned the toast

I burnt the toast

I had burnt the toast

Using burned in all of them sounds like a hillbilly.

Do you by any chance know where I could read a good introduction to Canadian English?

I can write fluently in UK and US English but Canadian sometimes has me stumped.

It’s probably an insurance fire.

This crying is all theater. There will be an angle to it for Musk and the other oligarchs.

A billionaire tax haven where over 50% of the labourers are non-citizens?

That person is delusional. If North America were a group of Indigenous nations it wouldn’t have been a major immigration target for European refugees.

I am here because Germany went fucking nuts and bombed my homeland.

No, you’re there because the people already there decided to let your family in.

Them being in a position to let you in js a crucial factor. And the reason their society got to control that is because of what they had done to other people beforehand.

No one is asking you to feel guilt and no one is blaming you. But facts are facts.

they treat anyone outside of their bubble as an enemy

There’s the problem.

It might be you who needs to grow up. This is a weird knee jerk reaction.

Non Americans should be able to ask a question about America without being told to “grow up”.

It’s not childish to wonder how much Americans understand about how fucked up their choice of leadership is. We’re not psychic.

This meme ha a terminal case of Poe’s Law.

Thanks for answering but this isn’t very clear.I understand you don’t want co-governance, you want Indigenous Sovereignty - but you also want to get to put limits on that sovereignty.

to ultimately live side-by-side with indigenous people as equals.

You seem to want to make Indigenous people give whites and other groups use of the land, water, and other resources.

But under that plan, Indigenous people would also have to be responsible for hosting them and all the labour of governance. They wouldn’t get to evict them.

I wonder what your reaction is to any Indigenous people who would be against limitations to their sovereignty.

I ENJOY pontificating about words. It’s my happy place!

I was not trying to taunt you or insult you, friend.

But it sounds like you’re not really in a head space right now where you can enjoy this conversation. I can respect that. Peace.

Nothing I said was about you. Why would I “call you out”?

This isn’t fight club it’s the fediverse. You need to chill.