I agree. I dont think there are many people out there that romanticize the word or concept of a plantation. Hell, Providence, RI is technically called the Providence Plantations, but no one talks about it because of the obvious negative connotations of the word.
I agree with the other changes mentioned in the article, but I think the word plantation is already culturally derided enough that it is probably worse in the common imaginary than “labor camp”.
Plus, plantation is just a historically accurate word. They called them plantations at the time, historical documentation refers to properties like that as plantations, so we talk about them as plantations. Plantations are pretty much solely an artifact of slavery at this point. You wouldnt say, “Im going to my uncle’s plantation this weekend” any more than you would say “Im going to my uncle’s labor camp”
NFL steering into the looney toons skid, announcing the all new Presidential Pick, where Emperor Trump gets the first overall and can give a player to whatever team he wants
I mean at least this is one of the situations where at its base a tariff makes sense in an industry protectionist way. Its not like putting insane tariffs on goods we dont even manufacture here whatsoever, which is just stupid.
That said, a 100% tariff is just mind bogglingly stupid dick-swinging in this already hostile trade environment. It would make more sense if it was like 5%. Not something that will make the world boycott our media
Facebook actively contributed to the genocide in Myanmar, and did basically nothing about it because they didnt want to hire more moderators that spoke the language, so that they could adequately remove pro-genocidal content
The claim we need it for safety and security is bs considering we have probably more service members there than there are people in Nuuk.
Its all about minerals, which we have no claim to. If Greenland were a territory, the federal government would have full control over the entire thing. US territories are modern day colonies basically
G pens are okay, pax are okay. Honestly they are all very mid in comparison to the Airizer products. The air max I have or whatever its called is the closest flower vape Ive ever had to smoking, easiest to use and clean, and I beat the shit out of it smoking multiple times a day and it still works great after almost two years
Its also the same in basically every Spanish speaking country, considering that you would refer to a mixed group of people by a masculine word. Only a group of just women would get a feminine word, and only if there was zero ambiguity
There is a huge swath of the US where we dont say y’all, we dont say you all, we dont say youse, yinz, or none of that. We just say “you guys” to refer to any group of people, in the same place anyone would use any of those other words or phrases.
Its annoying people get bent out of shape about it as if its some artifact of the patriarchy when its literally just a non-country way of saying “y’all”. It undermines actual legitimate issues when people complain about non-issues like that
New deal, Canada becomes part of the US but we just let them be in charge and abandon our clearly failed political system