Dessalines @ dessalines @lemmy.ml

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I remember reading the selfish gene maybe a decade ago... iirc a meme is really just any idea, that like a gene, can replicate and spread, and has a "fitness" to its environment that means it either spreads easier, or dies out. It applies to any idea / mental construct, from art, music, even to sayings, philosophies or moods.

They are sweet little goofballs.

I call this the finders keepers rule of colonialism. The western supremacists think that as long as you

• Kill a large enough percentage of the native population, and
• Wait long enough

Then the finders keepers rule kicks in, and you get to keep anything you stole. They even will yell "no ethnostates!!" at indegenous peoples they evicted and stole land from.

The main point is that its not for anyone but indigenous peoples to determine what they want to do with their land.

Bloodthirsty british and european settlers, greedy for land, wiped out hundreds of native tribes, each with rich cultures, art, languages, and beliefs. And most of this happened less than 150 years ago.

Clearing an entire continent of peoples is unprecendented in history, and what's worse, is that it's still ongoing, and no one has had to account for this earth-shattering crime.

Some audiobook torrents on the US settler colonial project:

• Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz - An indigenous peoples history of the US
• J. Sakai - Settlers: The Mythology of the White Proletariat
• Domenico Losurdo - Liberalism - A Counter-History [audiobook] by dessalines

What is this supposed to mean? Are you insinuating that the genocide of palestinians or native americans is trivial?

You're not sure if you oppose the genocide of indigenous peoples or not?

Erps, fixed.

No US president has ever faced a war crimes tribunal, despite every one of them killing large numbers of civilians.

Nor will they face one, until like nazi germany, the US is overthrown and its leaders are made to account for its crimes.

We also do have a forum sort on here, that allows infinite necrobumping (not limited to 2 days like the Hot sorts), called New Comments.

But ya I agree link aggregator is a good enough descriptor for what lemmy is: a place to post links to communities, and comment on them.

I think link aggregator is fine, and most descriptive of what lemmy is. Its a place to post links to communities, and allows for comments on those links.

No probs! @Cowbee@lemmy.ml also has some great introductory resources.

https://dessalines.github.io/essays/crash_course_socialism.html

The western project of humanizing nazis who massacred so many ppl in the 20th century is sickening.

She's been a presidential candidate.

George jetson house, what they thought the future would look like in 1960:

I'm not sure either. I think arch used to be one of the less popular distros (because of the more involved install process, solved now by the arch-based distros with friendly installers), despite having some of the best features, so it required more "evangelism", that's unecessary now. Arch-based distros are now some of the most popular ones, so its not necessary.

Others have commented on why its so great, but the AUR + Rolling releases + stability means that arch is one of the "stable end states". You might hop around a lot, but its one of the ones you end up landing on, and have no reason to change from.

They were being sarcastic I think.

JFC, orientalist rage-bait propaganda is off the charts.