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Normally when we talk about the history of "the pilgrims" and the first thanksgiving it is usually around, thanksgiving. However this story stretches across time to give us important lessons, as we repeat the story, when we need them. This is not some metaphysical process, but the natural result of learning a story, its ins and outs, and observing them from new perspectives in time that are accompanied by a plethora of new information to change what our conclusions might have previously been. The circular nature of Indigenous oral histories, is something I aim to capture with my work, and so if this sounds familiar: its because Ive probably said it before.

We of course are constantly dispelling Settler mythology that informs American jingoists, most commonly seen in the 'patsoc' but we really need to address how many people, believe the version of history taught to them in public school. Of course in communist spaces they've began to address the lies around the Cold War, but how often are they question not the information itself, but the LACK of information within the textbooks about Indigenous nations?

One of the more gruesome pieces of folklore is the idea (lied about by William Bradford himself) that the Pilgrims were giving burials to their fallen siblings, but instead they were turned into scarecrows out of paranoia to ward off any would-be attackers. They were tied to trees and armed with muskets to make the Mayflower appear well guarded, in reality so long as they weren't actively stealing, there was no risk of attack.

Their paranoia stemmed from their own ignorance or perhaps disparity, that drove them to steal from people they had never even met. The Nauset people only lived in the area during the summers (much like the rich) and so these stores were pivotal in surviving harsher weather later in the year. Once they found their stores being stolen from.

It was in the town of Patuxet, the settlers would become convinced that it was God's will that brought them here. The town had fertile fields with food growing, and the inhabitants had all become ill and died. Quickly they moved into pre-built homes that were the same quality and designs as European homes, and when the fires were lit, the smoke drew in Samoset. The people surrounding the area knew this was where the sick were being sent, and that nobody should be alive lighting fires. So when the English heard Samoset, speak English, they must have truly believe God had made these circumstances for them. The reality of this education of not only Samoset, but Tisquantum, is much darker

When looking at a guy like this I can't help but think of a variety of people who've had far too much money, like Elon Musk for example, and terrifies me to imagine what activities like Gorges they might copy. If Musk knew of aliens on Mars, it would not surprise me to learn Futurama had predicted English speaking Martians, that Elon had forcibly kidnapped and taught English. Perhaps that was a dumb joke, but the history is undeniable morbid, and before you ask: yes Matoaka (Pocahontas) was in Europe at the same time as Samoset and Tisquantum, but no they did not meet. She also died this month in 1617 on the 21st, were it not for being extremely ill and how welcoming a second child into the world, we were going to do an effort post then too. However because of the circumstances Im just trying to prevent brain damage from covid, and praying fever doesnt kill my kids.

The treaty mentioned here is what sets the precedent for the First Thanksgiving as depicted in children's stories, to come about. Really it was a response to the terms set in the treaty granting Patuxet to become Plymouth, that brought a group of warriors to the Pilgrims harvest celebrations. This included shooting guns for fun, it really is the most American thing you can do, which Ousamequin responded to believing the guns were the English fighting another group. Tisquantum would end up using his position as translator to subvert the Massasoit's traditional sphere of influence, but as soon as the English learned this was happening, they got a new translator. The peace wouldn't last of course when we would come to see the real first Thanksgiving as a celebration of the death of Ousamequin's son Metacom (King Phillip), whose head would sit in Boston's Town Square for decades.

Obviously the story we are telling this post is much larger, so I guess you will just have to follow our other social medias, or look for our effort posts on here in order to make sure you don't miss out. We have most of our podcasts already planned for the year, our organizing, and a great deal of effort posts which we are aiming for 2 a month. We are still working on videos though thats slower, but is becoming more streamlined as we grow and are able to pay people for labor. So this November you will also get a podcast episode to accompany this with the organizers of the National Day of Mourning, who are wonderful and were amazing hosts when I visited, so it will be great to talk to them again in such new context (I was still with The Red Nation when we last interviewed).

We will be launching a new GFM but for now we have a few still left unfinished that we would like to draw your attention to that you can find via linktr.ee/chunkalutanetwork. The first is a wheelchair drive where we are over halfway to our final goal to get an immigrant comrade of ours a wheel chair to prevent severe sores you can see on the GFM. She was paralyzed due to an accident during surgery and has really had a shit ton of bad luck for way too long. Had I known the fundraiser would stall out, Id have prioritized the wheelchair higher, and now Im left wrestling with the ableism implicated in that decision. As well as left to wonder how bad the ableism problem is when we get the donations for land in 2 weeks, and it takes a year to get a wheelchair.

The next fundraiser is Lost Sioux who is just a Lakota in Canada trying to survive, and survived the 60s scoop. Theyre not communist but you should help them survive anyway.

Lastly is the Winter Fundraiser which final amounts go to 3 things: the first 900 is for the loaned amount one of our organizers fronted to cover the costs of the storage container in time for our deadline. They believe we can get that money, and have kindly deferred what payments we could've given them to other important asks like housing elders. Which is the second thing the last bit of money goes to along with land, while the third thing is wood. We have seen trailers for as little as 1k this year, and think contributing to this fund is a lot more than most people do to fight the housing crisis.

We are also sending out permaculture experts this month to live on the land permanently, this means they will live and suffer with the people, and means they need our help just as much as the people on Pine Ridge do. Our goal with this group is to set up systems to combat food insecurity cheaper and more effectively at this stage in our organizing capacity then a Buffalo Prairie. However the work fundamentally reshapes the land to host Buffalo better once again. We also hope to get a jump start on the Great Green Wall project we will be starting, which will couple with bringing back the Black Footed Ferret to the area. Hopefully solving desertification issues through a two prong approach 1) planting trees along the area under desertification and 2) by supporting Black Footed Ferrets who will naturally out compete prairie dogs, whose tunnels cause more severe erosion, and whose over represented presence is the result of settler colonial terraforming of the plains into mono culture crops and grasses. All of this to say by supporting our Liberapay and Patreon you are contributing directly to the stipends of our network of incredible organizers, who deserve to be supported like so many people support podcasters on the left. I hate podcasting I do it to attract donations for mutual aid work and organizing I support or am doing myself, and to educate people before my larger projects are ready to release and prime them for better understanding of the materials being covered. As my kids come to dominate my life, my stipend should go to another organizer who needs the support I had that enabled me to start CLN. This idea comes from a study that shows if you give a houseless person 700 a month no strings attached, they will become homeowners. What happens if you give a communist 500 a month? Well I certainly did a lot over the last 2 years, and see no reasons others couldn't. The biggest thing is these stipends represent employment for our people on Pine Ridge, who have no other access to a regular "pay check" beside from government assistance. We already know the next 5 people we think deserve 500 a month, and we believe their work will speak for itself as to why they deserve that stipend. As this year goes on you will be introduced to each of these people through various ways, and some of you might already know of them because their organizing is so influential. We are daring to invent the future, we are building a mass base, and we are creating infrastructure that generations can use for resistance. Walk with us, you won't regret it

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[-] [email protected] 29 points 4 months ago

A few generations ago the people of China beat the entire land-lord class to death with shovels and rakes, then redistributed the land amongst themselves. A dfew decades ago the western media hooted and crowed that China was building empty concrete "ghost cities".

Now China has a 90% home ownership rate while the west has a "housing crisis" that is threatening to destablize entire countries.

Makes you think curious-marx

[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

Ad hominem isn't real. You can insult people as much as you want. Published 19th century philosophy is mostly diss tracks.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

what annoys me is that people, stupid ones, think that yelling "ad hom!" at insults thinks that means the argument is invalid.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

It's because they think it's a law to be kind and not to make sense in an argument

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Remember, "You're not wrong because you're stupid, it's just that you're wrong and stupid."

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[-] [email protected] 28 points 4 months ago

At least twice a day I am paralyzed by the memory of some horrible mistake I made in a social situation and I have to yell at myself or literally shake myself to get it to stop

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[-] [email protected] 25 points 4 months ago

Bro wtf ive been on this site for almost four years?! chomsky-yes-honey

[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Tell me about the pre-federated posting days again grandma!

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

someone marry me please thx

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[-] [email protected] 23 points 4 months ago

Member when that submarine killed those rich people and then that race car killed that one rich guy and then that tesla killed that rich lady?????

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

debatejak quote tweeting TrueAnon calling him a golem of ultramodern horrors, accusing Mehmet the podcast intern of virtue signalling

yes sir, keep posting through it. you have to trust me. the best way to show that you did well and aren't insecure about people thinking you lost a debate and being called mister rigatoni is to post for two days straight about it. the next post will exonerate you. you have to keep going

[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

99.9% of debate losers stop crying on twitter just before people start believing that they didn't actually get owned.

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

This is not an attempt to ban Tik Tok. Its an attempt to make Tik Tok better. Tic-Tac-Toe, a winner.

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[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

I went into a pub on my own and everyone there was eating meals and I was just gonna get a drink and wait for my friends but a guy asked me if I was okay and I panicked and left

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago

2 months after I joined twitter, elon bought it

2 months after I joined tiktok, congress is working on banning it

a few months after I started posting on r/cth, it got banned

what is going on here? tucker-catboy

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I think you need to join the military

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[-] [email protected] 21 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

It's so funny they figured out a way to ban tiktok that sets absolutely no precedent about privacy or social media regulation. It's a fucking "if we don't like you we can force you to sell to American capital" bill lol

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

What I actually have is manxiety, it's very macho, a lady therapist wouldn't get it.

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[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

So I installed Sodium for Minecraft recently. :minecraft:

What the fuck, how is it this smooth??? It's absolutely amazing. The performance is insane, I can see for focken MAIIILES, and have my simulation distance way farther than before. It was a bit of work to get the drivers and to get fabric too, but my goodness, don't think I can go back to Minecraft without Sodium from now on. Mojangles pls optimize ur game.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

I wanna be someones cat, will someone adopt me? bottom-speak

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

How do I decide where to post?

I've been thinking about posting more and I don't know where I should put things so they'll be properly received, not sure where else I can throw stuff except for here right now

my concern is that I don't really know what to class what I wanna post so if you also have any concern about what kind of post I could make simply ask and I will provide a sample

obama

[-] [email protected] 22 points 4 months ago

Just post wrong nobody cares if you do if the purpose of it is not malicious

posting

Any actual mistakes are easily rectified.

Like seriously we have an Owl that just shids and pisses posts everywhere, you can not go wrong.

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[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago

It's so fucked up that the woke game devs of Dark Souls make you kill Gwyn just because he's a white man

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

high school friend (destiny fan as mentioned prior) tries to argue the point that calling the situation in gaza a genocide is a bad tactic to get eyes on it and bodies moving because the moderate average voter will feel lied to when they look at gaza and don't see concentration camps

hit em with the "do you think the colloquial understanding of genocide is closer to concentration camps or mass killings"

point immediately conceded

another day another lib-status

[-] [email protected] 19 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

lmao this recent TrueAnon with Oobah I'm listening to, Brace has him call George Santos pretending to be from "the BBC show Chapo Trap House" for comment on the State of the Union address and they get him to shit on Biden's mental capacity. excellent podcast content

now Brace is calling Alan Dershowitz as "Adam from The Adam Friedland Show" for a statement on milk

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

you know i’m starting to suspect america has some problematic aspects to their relationship with war

[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

That random, inexplicable cut you have on your leg or arm that you have no idea of the origin of? Done by Hamas, believe it or not

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"This is a work of fiction" disclaimer is so funny for persona games. the game takes place in tokyo. literally a made up place.

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

I meet someone -> I tell them about Plan 9 -> they leave ⟳

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[-] [email protected] 18 points 4 months ago

Fascist sherriff holds up picture of border wall saying "Now THIS is how you secure a border, thank u for your service Mr. Trump!" but that section of border wall was actually built under Biden! LOL WHAT A MORON!

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

biaoqing-point biaoqing-copium

URGENT: we need more biaoqing emojis

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

i need to lose weight NOT for beauty standards purposes but i cannot and will not buy this many new pants

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

I recently installed Windows 10 and I found out Microsoft released a broken update 3 months ago and never fixed it. The recommended solution is to keep pausing updates every 7 days.

And people say open source software is unreliable...

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

some boomer commenting on a facebook article about jalapenos getting weaker and this stupid mf is like "i'll just stop buying jalapenos til they make them spicier" like homie i don't think u know how industrial agri-business works but i'm sure Mr Jalapeno will see your impotent protest and spice up your lil guys

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

Order rice with takeout at thai place -> why did I spend extra on rice? It's so easy to just make it when I get home

Don't order rice -> oh damn there is literally no way to remedy this

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[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Describing wikipedia as a fanfiction site for newsheads

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago

There has been some union negotiates at my work. I was doing my best to ruin the vibes.

"Doesn't it just seem pathetic the bosses are fighting us so hard over so little money? Just real gross petty behavior."

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

When kids talk about games from 2010 as if they're vintage susie-laugh

Me playing a game from the 80s screm-cool

Fuck me, I wasn't even alive in the 80s but I'm still not going act like games from less than 15 years ago are "retro"

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Got new internet (and a hole above my door) so now I can play TF2 without lagging the hell out every 10 seconds niko-happy

Anyway, one of the games I was in had a incredibly thinly veiled Ukro-nazi in it with a username like "Adolf Kelter 1399 dot UA". zelensky-pain Incredibly subtle, master of disguise. (Yes they also had some sort of anime creatura as a pfp)

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

I realize, sawing this board in my kitchen, that I am literally doing the cartoon upstairs neighbor bit of making construction noises. Oh well, at least everyone's at work.

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

My sisters friend broke up with her crazy ex boyfriend and he texted her saying, “You just decided to selfishly end things with ME! The most respected man!” 😂😂🤣

[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Unironically - I've whined about this before but how do people enjoy DnD? Maybe it's just sucky DMs and/or players I'm dealing with but it's just so tedious. Spending an hour just waiting for your turn to just say "does a 19 hit". How are good campaigns supposed to go?

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No current struggle session discussion here on the new general megathread, i will ban you from the comm and remove your comment, have a good day/night :meow-coffee:

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Norm Finklesreim should debate Jordan Peterson and whoever loses needs to pick a new voice.

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[-] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

Just got my Hamas Funko Pop from Amazon isaac-pog

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