Aware is too strong a term.

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but that's stuff we'll cover in Quoting 201 next semester.

Also just to normalize it in the American zeitgeist. Them entertaining it gives the illusion that there's some merit to the argument. In a year or two when everyone believes there's legitimate arguments on both sides of the issue due to it being an issue they keep hearing about in the news, they'll ratchet it a few steps further toward their goal.

I think you're giving them too much credit. It's more like, "I can't ask Grok while everyone's looking!"

Yep. And the phrase NATIVE Americans is a fucking clue

Right, these new worlds weren't empty of humans, and I've addressed this in other posts. The difference is that those indigenous cultures never evolved far enough to be able to resist the onslaught of the far more technological alien invaders, so their cultures basically ended, and were replaced by the melting pot cultures that came after. A lot of it wasn't even due to advanced technologies like swords and armor and guns. Pathogens probably did at least half the work for the invaders.

Frankly, that same thing probably happened all over the planet, but it happened so far back that we don't know about it. The conquering of the Americas and the Pacific nations, happened within our written history, so we're aware of it, but the earliest indigenous populations probably suffered the same fate.

For instance, millennia ago, Modern Humans and Meanderthals co-existed, with Neanderthals being the older, and presumably indigenous culture, but Modern Humans eventually prevailed. Just knowing human nature as is we all do, it is doubtful that the Neanderthals simply died out quietly. At least in some places, they were almost certainly exterminated. People have been people for as long as there have been people, so it's a pretty safe bet that at some stage, someone pointed to those people with the heavy brow-ridges, and invented a reason for murdering ALL of them.

After that, civilizations evolved, and isolated by lack of travel options, established their own local/regional cultures that were passed down to create the nations we have today.

America, Australia, etc. are following the same basic path as those ancient civilizations, we're just here to witness this one, but ancient civilizations were probably just as genocidal in establishing their own cultures, if not worse.

They aren't exactly the same politically as they were in the "olden days," but they are the same "people," whose culture has evolved.

For instance, modern Italians are the descendants of Romans. They are the same people, even if their governmental system.has changed (and it has changed often in Italy).

But countries like America or Australia aren't populated by the same people from long ago. The original indigenous inhabitants didn't become the primary population like they did in Italy, or England, or France, or Ukraine. We grew because boatloads of people came here from all over the world, and settled here.

Modern Italians, British, French, etc. have always been there, modern Americans haven't. We didn't come from here, we came from everywhere else.

You understand that modern Italians and Romans are the same people, right? That modern British, and early Britons are the same people? That modern Scandinavians and Vikings are the same people? That modern French, and the Gauls were the same people? That modern Egyptians, and those that built the pyramids are the same people? That modern Greeks and ancient Greeks are the same people? Modern Chinese and ancient Chinese are the same people? Same with Japanese, Korean, African, Russians, Turkish, etc.

They have all occupied the same territory as their ancestors, they look the same, speak the same, eat the same, listen to the same music, etc. Their societies/civilizations may have evolved over millennia, as did their political systems, but they are still the same PEOPLE, with the same CULTURE.

But the Western Hemisphere, and a few islands like Australia and New Zealand, were basically empty, except for an indigenous population, who simply weren't prepared for an invasion by a technologically advanced race of aliens from what might as well be Outer Space.

The indigenous occupants were quickly overrun, aided partially by alien pathogens, and then occupied by immigrants from all over the globe. These cultures do not resemble any single culture, like the world was accustomed to, they became a blend, and the world had to become accustomed to a new kind of national culture.

Americans aren't Purebreds, we're Mutts. A nation like ours can't base their citizenship solely on descent from a long established culture, we are too young for that to properly sustain a nation for millennia into the future. We require new blood from elsewhere to keep it growing.

Mutts are often known for being hardy because they carry the positive traits of their varied ancestors. That's our strength, and immigration has given us that strength. MAGA wants us to reduce to a single purebred strain of human, which would eventually lead us to becoming a nation of incestuous inbreds like the Hapsburgs or the Pharonic Egyptians.

MAGA would probably love fucking their siblings, the weirdos.

Currently 94% of states have medical marijuana yet its still federally illegal and scheduled as a drug with no medical value. That's a good indicator of consensus not meaning jack to the federal government.

Same as how they passed prohibition.

It's actually quite fascinating even as it is disconcerting.

They lobbied state by state, and focused on a few key legislators, threatening their seat, until the rest fell in line.

They didn't have to fight them all at once, so they could focus their resources.

Its been broken for a while. Just a reminder that the Equal Rights Amendment of 1972 isn't technically implemented because Virginia didn't ratify until 2020 and now there are questions of expired deadlines and recisions.

I agree that he's not capable of seeing himself as inferior but I think he could tell that Obama viewed him as inferior and others were agreeing with that

Maybe, but this reasoning implies the SC isn't gargling Trump's balls and that seems like an incorrect conclusion to me

This might cause the conservative members to stop following his playbook so much, but it's hard to say for sure.

Doubtful. If they ditch the playbook, who will pay their bribes gratuities?

Idk where I first heard this. I think it was a lawyer podcast where they were discussing the original debate around the 14th amendment.

Basically the 14th amendment was created to overturn the Dredd Scott ruling and codify citizenship to be more similar to english common law. During the discussion many groups came up: chinese laborers, former slaves, etc. The understanding was that the amendment would provide citizenship to all these groups and that it was necessary to prevent a backslide into slavery.