"Illegal immigration" is a good concept to use to explore the multi-layered fuckery that is our reality, First of all, what is a law? a law is a rule that people invent and enforce. without enforcement, it's just words on paper. Now... let's talk about the history of Americapic.twitter.com/CrRRiqnPVY
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For ~30,000 years, you could literally walk from Russia to Alaska. About ~16,000 years ago, small groups of hunter-gathers chased big animals across the Bering bridge. They lived in that in-between space for 1000s of years! Land ownership as a concept had not been invented yet.pic.twitter.com/qaMvuBHoY0
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There have been many names for this land – some tribes called it Turtle Island. Other names include "Abya Yala", "Ixachilan". (The World Turtle is a fascinating creation myth to me. Hindu and Chinese myths have this motif too!) How did these people govern themselves?pic.twitter.com/FedQP2S86t
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They were people, like we are, and they were just as capable of being cruel and unjust. And they varied tremendously from tribe to tribe. But broadly – crimes were against communities, and there weren't really jails or prisons. (This is SO complex though) https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/3n0u88/what_sort_of_criminal_law_did_native_american/ …pic.twitter.com/X0hN0KkbHq
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Consider one origin story of Thanksgiving. A bunch of (illegal?
) immigrants on a boat showed up on Turtle Island, uninvited, without enough food to last the winter. A local man (who knew English because he’d been KIDNAPPED earlier) taught them how to survive. And they feasted.pic.twitter.com/nRUnxWeRwO
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visakan veerasamy Retweeted clown
I got a bit tired and bored at this point so let’s just skip a few steps and consider this:https://twitter.com/slashonsleeves/status/1007847761411112960?s=21 …
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clown @slashonsleevessay it with me: no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land no one is illegal on stolen land https://twitter.com/HMAesq/status/1007178933077532672 …Show this thread3 replies 0 retweets 8 likesShow this thread -
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Say it with me: path dependency is a harsh mistress “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “ “
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this is also American historypic.twitter.com/i8RabNeu0d
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we'll have a different president eventually
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the current misdeeds are not going unnoticed but there is limited ability to resist the legal exercise of power from a sitting president. how bad does it have to be before violence is a better option than elections? we're not even close that yet.
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