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Custer Died for your sins

for the tribes you terminated

for the myths you kept alive

for the land you confiscated for our freedom, you deprived

custer died for your sins

custer died for your sins

jimmy curtiss 1983

Empire, imperialism, colonialism, capitalism…these structures CANNOT survive anywhere where almost any kind of relationship thrives.

You cannot have an authentic self.

You have a pre-approved self PRESCRIBED to you, and any attempt to deviate from the "self" that you are assigned is continuously policed and punished.

Your connection to the land is continuously denied and sabotaged -- precisely so that people can't survive and take care of themselves via collaborative subsistence.

Every oppressor and abuser demands that you be dependent on them, so that they can continue to oppress and abuse you. And, even if they sweetly insist that they will allow you to have some freedoms; they will simultaneously make sure to sabotage and gaslight you until you're in a position where you can't care for yourself anyway: a process that infantilizes and enslaves human beings into the structure of unequal power that they crave.

Your connection to others is constantly policed.

We see how various media outlets and social media platforms attempt to control conversations, muddy narratives, use algorithms to funnel people into more right-leaning content; and, even force people to change the terminologies they use; to absurd effect (unalive, grape, etc).

We see in the pages of Project 2025 how desperate the old guard of western hierarchy are, to regain full control of people's connections to each other, by denying people any options about how they live, with whom, to what end, and under what circumstances.

There's something we've been conditioned to do over the past handful of centuries in the face of right-leaning powers (as well as in the face of abusers and oppressors in general), it's like... a FAWN response.

It's 'appease them'. 'Debate them'.

Sink more of your energy into their narrative.

Lick their boots.

We're conditioned that way because there are so many examples across capitalist societies that show us who our "leaders" favor...and who they DON'T:

~ Women and children who are jailed for fighting back against incidents of DV/SA... (sometimes, even just surviving an abuser and getting away from them is dangerous, lest the courts name you an accomplice in your abuser's crimes while you were still with them).

~ Protestors in the streets who are seeking justice who get beaten and arrested, while nazis in the streets get handshakes from police.

~ Try to protect the Atlanta forest, block a pipeline, protect the Earth, and you get shot. Evict people in droves, and you're just fine.

~ Help the homeless, and you're arrested (like those 'Food Not Bombs' people who they tried to charge $500 for feeding the hungry).

All across our society, power is set up to benefit and support the *worst* of humanity.

The statistics bear it out when we note that our institutions help abusers and oppressive entities both big and small to maintain power, control, and influence, rather than focusing on genuinely helping and allying with the victims that this system is designed to crush.

The US Military in Hawaii

Late night thoughts, but seeing white ppl's reaction to landback & Turtle Island & Hawaii has really showed us that so many people still don't understand settler colonialism or why it's bad, or even acknowledge the fact that them being born in Turtle Island does in fact, mean that they have privilege as a result of that settler colonialism.

"My ancestors didn't do any of the killing, so they didn't do any colonizing" You being in Turtle Island is proof that they did in fact, participate in colonization. Even if you know for a fact that your ancestors didn't kill any Indigenous people, the colonizers that DID do that specifically did it so that other White settlers could replace the Indigenous population. That's what settler colonialism is. The settlers that moved here were just as much part of colonization of the Americas as people like Christopher Columbus was.

"My ancestors were mostly farmers" I said this so many times in the past, but yeah they were still colonizers. Natives were pushed off good, farmable land onto reservations (specifically areas that tended to be worse off for farming, crop planting, and hunting) specifically so that white settlers could have the good areas to themselves to farm. The U.S and Canadian government paid for White settlers' travel expenses specifically so that they could come colonize Turtle Island. The gov put out ads to "buy Indian Land!" And people definitely took them up on it. Plenty of poor White people trespassed onto what even was designated as land reserved for Native Americans, and that land automatically became theirs ( and disenfranchised from the tribe) for no reason besides that they were on it. One reason why so many White Americans believe they have specifically a Cherokee ancestor is because there's lots who faked Native lineage in order to steal land from displaced Cherokee. Theres a good chance your ancestors did any one of these things.

I think people have this image of what a "colonizer" is in their head and it's a moustache twirling white villian holding a sword or a musket, so much that they don't remember or realize that "colonizer" or "settler" does very much in fact does also include their pastoral great grandparents who were "immigrants"