Looks like a cult, tbh.

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[–] 53 points 1 year ago (1 child)

"The tribe", "the group" -- aka three people.

Also, for the record, I'd like to point out that the Daily Record is a Scottish tabloid.

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  • [–] 38 points 1 year ago (9 children)

    Britain with no irony: "You can't come to a land and act like its yours! We were living here first!"

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  • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Did you actually just say that with no irony? The "western" world lives in relative luxury because of continued exploitation of the global south.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Where do you think your cheap clothes, devices, food, energy, transportation, etc. comes from? Today’s globalism is a direct descendant of colonialism. In fact, many people even call it neo-colonialism.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    I agree with almost everything you say, except you are ignoring that capital bribes workers in the imperial core with a superior quality of life to maintain a compliant populace to provide a bulwark against the “slavering masses.”

    It sounds like you’re anti capitalist and fairly well educated, but it’s a straight up lie to say that capitalism hasn’t increased quality of life for imperial core workers over that of global south.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 year ago

    You keep harping on about impoverished Brits as if the poorest Brits aren’t still more wealthy than 90% of the world’s inhabitants.

    Like I get it, life is hard for poor people everywhere, but everyone in the imperial core benefits from western dominance. I’d much rather be poor in London than in Mumbai.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago

    You don’t need to benefit to still have it better than the people it was stolen from.

    Someone else getting knocked down leaves them worse off even if it doesn’t improve your situation.

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    [–] 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    I read the whole article and I still don't know if it is real. I hate this timeline.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    They seem like a UK offshoot of the Black Hebrew Israelites.

    If they want to live in tents in the forest instead of yelling at people walking by on the street, I suppose that's an improvement.

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    That was certainly... a read. I don't know enough about Jacobites, anyone have any context on that?

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  • [–] 28 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    To simplify, it was a political group of Catholic conservatives, which fought the Protestant kings and queens. They were not especially black.

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  • [–] 17 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    They were not especially black.

    lol

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  • [–] [S] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    There’s a group of people who are (rightly) concerned that black folks have been omitted from history, and have overcorrected to claiming that basically all important historical figures ever were black. Another comment in this thread mentioned the Black Israelites, but there’s also the Nation of Islam (nothing Yakub made could be good of course).

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Betting the lost black tribe nonsense is a corruption of some African Christian myth. The Christians were already there by the 1st century, and in no small numbers, building churches, all that. There's a lot of history there I'm ignorant of.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago

    Looking forward to an update after the first snow.

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  • [–] 7 points 1 year ago

    Kinda feel like we should leave them just to see what happens

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  • [–] 12 points 1 year ago (6 children)

    I'm skeptical. If these people truly are of a tribe attempting to reclaim stolen land, I support them. But the cynic in me wonders if they're cosplaying and looking for a con.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    If it lets them get back to nature and pursue enlightenment, does the story they use to get there really matter?

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  • [–] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Yes, if they're lying to perpetuate fraud.

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  • I wonder if they'd like it more or less if people just agreed to let them do it

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Cool and all, but you were not natives of Scotland.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    Neither are the Scots if you go back far enough.

    All humans are immigrants except MAYBE some Ethiopians still living in the cradle of life.

    Idk i feel like 1,000 years should be long enough to naturalize. If they can hold those woods for 1,000 years, they should be considered natives.

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