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the mere suggestion should be considered treason

absolutely fucking egregious and shameful that they would do this without first passing it through the middlemen that make it legal. what will become of the PACs and lobbyists if we allow this?

don’t amendments need 67 Senate votes?

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ok I see. my understanding of imperialism is that it encompasses both of those, meaning broadly, expansion of influence, especially (but not necessarily) by claiming areas of land, in order to gain control of resources currently held by others. but I agree, there are two types within that, and the distinction between them is whether the people currently occupying the land (or in particular their labor) are part of the resources that the empire is trying to claim

so, just walking through your own argument as I understand it: situations that are similar to the treatment of indigenous North Americans by the US can be considered imperialism, if it’s done by one nation to another nation. but the actual treatment of indigenous peoples by the US doesn’t meet that condition. the result of that syllogism must be: between the US and the indigenous peoples, one of them is not a nation. I assume you’re not saying that the US is not a nation. so the conclusion must be that the indigenous North American peoples were not a nation, or multiple nations; that there was no political or societal organization in the Americas before Europeans came. is that what you mean, or have I misunderstood?

and my question is why do you think that’s not a form of imperialism

the “neighboring nation” I was referring to were the indigenous people. North America was not a blank slate before Europeans arrived. “manifest destiny” was imperialism

so you’re saying going to war against a neighboring nation to expand your territory is not what an empire does?

if being proved wrong meant anything to maga the movement would have died a decade ago

we had sex ed, drug prevention, and nutrition all together in a class simply called “health,” and while the material was apparently much better quality than what most others get, the woman they got to teach it was dumb as a bag of hammers. couldn’t pronounce “bulbourethral gland,” didn’t know the difference between “metastasis” and “metastasize,” claimed that the cause of diabetes is that “sugar molecules are sharp and cut up the insides of your arteries” (I don’t count that one against the material because it didn’t come out of a book, she was clearly just ad-libbing out of her own head)

remember when AOC was going to make hamburgers illegal?

“we” huh? as in he identifies himself as part of their group? while acknowledging that they’re Nazis? interesting.

also the Richter scale is logarithmic; each point is ten times as much as the previous. so a 3 is not 30% as much as a 10, it’s one ten-millionth as much

“you can’t just say bankruptcy”

“I didn’t say it, I asserted it”

what do you call it when you put the seed in the pot if not “planting”?

it’s nice, but it’s been over a decade since people started talking about needing a $15 minimum wage, with inflation that same value is more like $20 now

roughly 68°F btw

if by home you mean prison

ever heard of the Lone Ranger?