re Sawant - is there a formal ruling on truthiness before it proceeds to a ballot? Or is that what the ballot is for determining?

Its a grotesque spectacle, all these Republicans who have not shut up for years about how horny they are to get rid of Obamacare now all pretending its no big deal.

@2 You are free to hold whatever opinions you like about the Right of Conquest. But surely we can all agree that the US Government should honor its treaties.

Where's the Duwamish reservation?

https://www.duwamishtribe.org/treaty-of-point-elliott

@5,

That's what offended you?

You must be new here.

@2 Sargon, your characterization of Israel is bs.

As to the rest of it, I disagree. Indigenous people should be awarded restitution for the legacy of racist and inhumane policies of historical segregation and genocide, the effects of which they live with to this day.

All this is further proof that we need BIDEN / HARRIS 2020. Stick it up your chastity belt and choke on it, COVID Amy Coney Barrett! End TRUMPVID-19 NOW.

@9: Absolutely, including the decedents of the indigenous inhabitants of Mesopotamia.

@11 Again, the claims of the Duwamish are not based in appeals to abstract principles but I'm a treaty signed and ratified by the US government.

Or, more.precisely, singed, ratified and neglected.

@12: No problem with that. My snark is in applying the macro view of unrealistic expectations of the human condition throughout history.

"That's how many humans work.
And the winner justifies the taking."

You mean, how they attempt to weasel outta their Contract? Yep. Many humans DO work that way (look to Fake 'prez' for examples up the ying-yang -- he's got it down to an Art, the fucker). ('cept if he don't Steal this one, he's going to Jail. His progeny'll likely join him there, and, speaking of weasels, prolly Jerrod, too).

anyway, Sarge, Reparations are what they're gonna get. The only question is how Much?

Part of the problem is that the Duwamish isn’t recognized as a tribe. Or did that change? I know that they’re we’re on their way in the Clinton administration, but Bush put the brakes on that.

@17: Indigenous people are no more special than any other people in the world. In addition, we're all indigenous in a relative historical context. It's all a matter of how we treat each other now, not how we've treated each other in the past.

There's no such thing as being enslaved by history. We learn from history, that's all we can do. We can't rectify history.

Also, stop calling people nazi sh#theads. It's not polite. Thank you.

Dr. Wyatt Tee Walker was a legend in the American civil rights movement. He wrote:

"The answer is to go deeper than race, deeper than wealth, deeper than ethnic identity, deeper than gender. To teach ourselves to comprehend each person, not as a symbol of a group, but as a unique and special individual within a common context of shared humanity. To go to that fundamental place where we are all simply mortal creatures, seeking to create order, beauty, family, and connection to the world that -- on its own -- seems to bend too often towards randomness and entropy."

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2020/10/12/the_civil_rights_legend_who_opposed_critical_race_theory_144423.html

What do you think we're disagreeing about Garbanzo? Indigenous simply mean in a location longer than other people. African Americans are not indigenous to America, but suffer from discrimination. So the point is not whether someone is indigenous or not, it's how they are treated.

I want restitution. My rent has increased due to the hoards of peoples from other lands and fear I will become a displaced native of Seattle. Where is my right to live in my homeland, free from oppression caused by the increased cost of living?

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