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There is a fairly common trope online that Bhutanese cuisine is not all that good, but is this really a fair assessment? Well in part yes it is because the
If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
This is new and unusual. To get an idea of how weird this is, let's take a quick tour of some of the many times the US federal government has officially persecuted entire groups of people.
1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."
About half of the deported people were US citizens.
Few if any Anglo Americans seemed to have a problem with this.
Mexican Americans ran the court battles, protests, and educational campaigns against forced deportation on their own. While they were struggling to keep their families together day by day.
WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.
The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.
Some white Americans did publicly oppose rounding up their Japanese neighbors. They were in the minority & overruled.
Resistance was limited to individual efforts to tone down the impact of incarceration- tending jailed neighbors' farms while they were away, sending supplies to the camps, etc.
Public outrage over the many US citizens deported caused Operation Wetback to get its funding pulled. โฆ After 3 months & over 1 million people deported.
This was the fastest a purge ever got rolled back. But it still took people a while to notice & stop it. At the supposed peak of US unity.
Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.
Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.
But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.
The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.
There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.
@Sarah Taber I was with you up to this point--the U.S. has NOT been about this the whole time. What the U.S. has been about the whole time is the see-saw between the people in power who do that sort of thing and the people who give that lot the boot from time to time.
If the U.S. was all about that the whole time, there never would have been a Civil War OR an end to the Vietnam War, and this should be said. No, the U.S. wasn't born in 1960 , but it was in the 1960s that the people you describe lost power--Vietnam ended, Civil Rights were encoded into law--and it was also the time when the Republican Party morphed from the Party of Lincoln into the Dixiecrat-Kremlin Party.
But understand this: I stand with the NAACP and ACLU to make it known that we're Americans too, and we will NOT be overlooked.
I see "late stage capitalism" as a very positive thing. It means capitalism has mostly run its course and will soon cave in under the weight of its own excesses. That will be painful, but if we can survive to get to a post-capitalist society, it will be better.
@Sarah Taber ...and then there were the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, 1943. There was more to that than just a catchy tune by Cherry Poppin Daddies--it actually happened.
"They're rounding people up just because of their skin color and locking them up!"
Yeah, like you said, I'm just glad people are speaking up about this in a big way because this has been happening for decades. I think one of the key differences is that they've dropped the pretense that what they're doing is "justice."
Liberals have been more than happy to lock black and brown people up en masse as long as they can run them through the system first. If someone is convicted of a crime, they're completely okay with throwing them in prison. Does "convicted" mean "guilty?" Should what they were convicted of even be a crime? We've never really had a meaningful conversation about that in this country.
But the numbers really speak for themselves. Things *were not okay* before Trump was elected. When this fascist regime falls apart, we *cannot* go back to how things were before.
From the thousands dying now abandoned by USAID, or those in Ukraine who suffer by the reduction in military aid? Or maybe from Palestinians shot by so called 'American aid contractors'? Or maybe the 132,000 trans people who will now be denied medical care?
I listen to a lot of history podcasts and I know about these times because of that, but mostly it has made me sad we didnโt learn anything. Turns out, maybe we did? I guess I want to say this has been really helpful for me - thank you for writing it
Thank you for posting this. I've been reading and relearning a bit of this countries history lately and I quickly realized how it's the same shit in a different decade, but none of that could cover how it's any different than what we're experiencing now. I wouldn't have considered that the response is quicker.
This is a great, informed take. Not rose colored glasses but forward thinking and historically grounded. I couldn't agree more about the whole 'this being the worst timeline' being really problematic. That's a cop out; that's throwing your hands up; that's giving yourself an excuse to give up and not try. It's showing a lack of imagination, if you truly cant think of worse things. There were times during the Cold War people lived in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. It's also showing a lack of historical knowledge, especially knowing that the underlying issues of what is happening (racism, sexism) are foundational particularly to Western culture, and human culture in general. We've never actually had a reckoning with our past (or present). To think that these issues were just going to go away quietly is naive, or that somehow with education we had suddenly become not-racist. It's also not surprising that we are having a hard time forming a coherent resistance party given how much technology has changed politics in the last 20 years, and given the diversity and complexity of global problems we are facing. Let's give this issue, the rise of violent ultra-nationalism in the 21st century, its due as the complex historical problem that it is and not get frustrated when we can't solve it or defeat it in six months. But like you say, there are signs that American society as a whole, not just those directly persecuted, are resisting in ways that are novel. We are far from powerless here and I'm really tired of takes that paint us as such.
We are witnessing premeditated murder and the last nails in the coffin of democracy. No celebrating for me. I'm in mourning for what used to be our nation
Excellent thread. Thank you for this. This is why I share Heather Cox Richardson's blog posts every night. She puts things in historical perspective and while that doesn't make me feel better about what's going on, it keeps me from panicking, knowing what we've been through.
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I know FreeTube works when you use a working Invidious instance. I don't know if I could delete my Google, as pretty much all of my videos for three channels are on there (and I don't break TOS as far as I'm aware).
Nimble-fingered thieves swarm souqs and markets. A cautious warrior arranges affairs so that a theft does not become a fatal loss. cromwell-intl.com/cybersecuritโฆ
Flan is a nice and playful girl. Real cute. Of course, you'd never spot her most the time. She's an extreme shut in. Has rarely ever left her room in at least 495 years.
Well of course you'd be hit by a large blast of her artwork, 7/4 (or 4/95) was her day. Lots of people looking to admire her for what is the closest thing we have for her to a birthday.
The former American republic is now an empire, the type of government from which Thomas Jefferson and his colleagues violently seceded, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
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"A social movement that only moves people is merely a revolt. A movement that changes both people and institutions is a revolution." - Martin Luther King, Jr. ##quoteofthemonth
The super rich thinks they are invincible. Ordinary people pay more taxes than them.
Yesterday, Spain, Brazil and South Africa launched a coalition to tax them during the 4th International Financing for Development in Seville. Hopefully, more countries will follow suit. #TaxTheSuperRich #FfD4
I assume it's not yet considered #terrorism to take action to stop a #genocide in #Aotearoa #NewZealand, although one wonders how long it will take #NZPol PM #Luxon Deputy PM #DavidSeymour and Foreign Minister #WinstonPeters to recommend Palestine Action being adjudicated as a terrorist group in NZ.
For the record I support #PalestineAction and any other individual or group taking action to oppose, slow down or end the #Genocide taking place in #Palestine.
Independent, British journalist Richard Medhurst summarizes the court proceedings on Friday July 4 as Palestine Acton sought an injunction pending judicial r...
Since 2020, direct action group Palestine Action have documented their operations to dismantle the companies and infrastructure supplying weapons to the ongoing genocide in Gaza.
A new #mural in #France depicting Lady Liberty covering her face in #shame was unveiled one day before #America's Independence Day. Happy Birthday, America
Lola is gone, and I miss her. Momo misses her too; he adored, tormented, chased, played with, and humped her. We are both adjusting. I'm glad he's here. He's very different from Lola, but I love him and he loves me and we have each other. (For now; Momo has IBD and is sustained by Prednisone, which reduces longevity. One day at a time.)
If this happens, it could not happen to a more deserving smug, self righteous, MAGA twit than Alina Habba, also known as the interim United States attorney for the State of New Jersey. (Relocated there
Hope springs eternal. I saw E. Jean Carroll talking to Tim Miller about her new book about court with Trump. Surprisingly, Carroll, a smart woman, said Habba is fiercely bright, and that Trump berated her and degraded her constantly during the trial, and that Habba was very pleasant one day and obnoxiously arrogant the next.
In a press conference Wednesday afternoon, authorities said the scene remained too dangerous for firefighters and emergency workers to extinguish ongoing fires and search for the missing workers.
Next year is ramping up to be something nationwide and particularly in New York. Elise Stefanik is running for Governor. She evidently decided to unhitch her wagon from Donald Trump's star and that's a good
The #middleclass, once the backbone of #America, has been eroded through decades of neglect. The #Americandream of the middle class has slowly turned into a #nightmare.
Now is not the time to get discouraged. Now is the time to ramp up for a fight. In fact later this month No Kings is organizing another round of protests using the late, great
@pluralistic Just finished this little number. Just wanted to say thanks for another rollicking tale. I was in secondary school when all this "happened", and it brought back so many memories, and pointed out so much that I missed at the time. Highly recommend! #books #Bookstodon #BooksWorthReading #thanks
Who the fuck puts a used skillet and spatula in the oven and walks off and leaves it with out telling anyone? Now I got to clean melted plastic off my skillet and out of the oven
Seriously, stay the fuck out of the kitchen if you can't clean and put away dishes. BTW, I know who did and they better be glad they are gone off watching fireworks, I'd seriously jump their asses for being lazy niggers. โ
Prostate milking machine. I believe Germany developed some that they used at the Auschwitz Luxury Resort and Entertainment complex. They were pretty state of the art at the time.
Trump knows how bad what's about to happen in the House is. And he WANTS to see it happen. He wants to destroy, and cause great pain and suffering. He's lashing out because HE is
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>Rees bluntly states, โthe human enterprise is effectively subsuming the ecosphereโ and โwide-spread societal collapse cannot be averted โ collapse is not a problem to be solved, but rather the final stage of a cycle to be endured.โ
If our present path doesn't change drastically, the science seems to suggest we are likely to experience a collapse of civilization โ and we'll have nobody but ourselves to blame.
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Both 19 years old, Sergeant Yair Eliyahu was killed in an operational accident, while Sergeant Asaf Zamir was killed in combat in the southern Gaza Strip
The Guadeloupe River @ Comfort, Texas rose 12.93 feet in 15 minutes this morning. That's 10.34" per minute or an inch every 6 SECONDS. That's one of the fastest rises I've ever seen. Very hard to get away from that kind of flash flooding.
โ There is much in the fact that so many Jews are Bolshevists( Communists), in the fact that the ideals of Bolshevism are Comsonant with the Finest ideals of Judaism.โ โ The Jewish Chronicleโ April 4, 1919
QT MSF @DoctorsWithoutBorders โช2025 July 4 Doctors Without Borders mourns the killing of former colleague Abdullah Hammad in #Gaza, our 12th staff member lost since October 2023.
MSF mourns the killing of former colleague Abdullah Hammad by Israeli forces in Gaza, our twelfth staff loss since October 2023 amid ongoing humanitarian crisis.
I got a spray bottle of 70% isopropyl alcohol just for when some flying insect gets into my room, knocks them onto the ground for an easy kill, TOTAL FLY DEATH
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •If you started paying attention to the US in 1960, this sure feels like the darkest timeline. But unfortunately, purges against Black & brown people are normal US behavior.
You know what's NOT normal US behavior?
This is the first time there's been a mass movement to STOP a purge in real time.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •This is new and unusual. To get an idea of how weird this is, let's take a quick tour of some of the many times the US federal government has officially persecuted entire groups of people.
And what (if any) pushback there was at the time.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •1929-1939: the US "repatriated" somewhere between 300K and 2M Mexican Americans. No due process. The federal government removed them from the US to "stop them from competing with Americans for jobs."
About half of the deported people were US citizens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_โฆ
mass repatriation of Mexicans and Mexican-Americans during the Great Depression
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Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Few if any Anglo Americans seemed to have a problem with this.
Mexican Americans ran the court battles, protests, and educational campaigns against forced deportation on their own. While they were struggling to keep their families together day by day.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •WW2: the US jails 120,000 people, who hadn't been charged of any crime, as a "precaution." 2/3 were US citizens. Many were farmers. White folks wanted their land, & got it.
The loss of so many skilled farmers dented the US food system & made it harder to fight the war.
qz.com/1201502/japanese-internโฆ
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Some white Americans did publicly oppose rounding up their Japanese neighbors. They were in the minority & overruled.
Resistance was limited to individual efforts to tone down the impact of incarceration- tending jailed neighbors' farms while they were away, sending supplies to the camps, etc.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Operation Wetback, 1954: a federal program to hunt down & deport undocumented immigrants from Mexico.
Somewhere between 1.1 and 1.5 million were rounded up & deported.
And yet again, many were documented migrants or US citizens.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operatioโฆ
1950s U.S. immigration law enforcement initiative
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Public outrage over the many US citizens deported caused Operation Wetback to get its funding pulled. โฆ After 3 months & over 1 million people deported.
This was the fastest a purge ever got rolled back. But it still took people a while to notice & stop it. At the supposed peak of US unity.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Slavery & Jim Crow: millions of Americans held in captive labor.
Enslaved & sharecropping farm workers knew things were bad! They did what they could to push back the whole time.
But that wasn't enough. Both slavery & Jim Crow finally ended when a critical mass of white Americans decided they should. Not even the majority of white Americans. Just a critical mass. And it took us ~250 and close to 100 years to get there, respectively.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •The US & its preceding colonies were at war with tribes ~each year from 1610 - 1920s- 300 years.
There was more opposition from white folks than you'd think; but it wasn't broad-based, organized, or effective. We're still breaking treaties with tribes today.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Americanโฆ
frontier conflicts between American, Canadian and European settlers and Indigenous peoples of the Americas
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Sometimes, replacing tribes with settlers wasn't enough. The federal gov't put in the work to keep the new guys down too.
When coal miners went on strike, they sent in the National Guard. To push people back into the mines at gunpoint.
My grandma left Harlan Co so she didn't get stuck in company store debt for life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coal_Warโฆ
Coal Wars - Wikipedia
Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •So it's frustrating to hear things like "This is the darkest timeline" and "late-stage capitalism."
Yes things suck & you gotta vent. But... do people think the US started in 1960?
We really forget our country, and capitalism, *started* with people on the auction block.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •When you know what the US has been about this whole time, that really puts the current moment in perspective.
We've been up to some ugly, ugly stuff. And it usually gets either silence or applause.
2025 is a whole different animal. The response has been strong and immediate. We had *preemptive* mass mobilization.
By millions of people who *aren't* being targeted by raids, jailing, and deportation. (Yet. ๐)
That's never happened in US history before. This is different.
Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •@Sarah Taber
I was with you up to this point--the U.S. has NOT been about this the whole time.
What the U.S. has been about the whole time is the see-saw between the people in power who do that sort of thing and the people who give that lot the boot from time to time.
If the U.S. was all about that the whole time, there never would have been a Civil War OR an end to the Vietnam War, and this should be said. No, the U.S. wasn't born in 1960 , but it was in the 1960s that the people you describe lost power--Vietnam ended, Civil Rights were encoded into law--and it was also the time when the Republican Party morphed from the Party of Lincoln into the Dixiecrat-Kremlin Party.
But understand this: I stand with the NAACP and ACLU to make it known that we're Americans too, and we will NOT be overlooked.
Sarah Taber
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •That's why the right keeps sniveling about how they're under attack. Even while they're successfully pulling off another purge.
They're not used to getting yelled at when they blow taxpayer dollars on witch hunts, they're used to getting high-fives at the country club.
Bob Blaskiewicz ๐บ๐ฆ ๐จ๐ฆ ๐ฌ๐ฑ
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •AI6YR Ben
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •PedestrianError
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Lien Rag
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •I'd be interested in the "more opposition from white folks than you'd think" part.
RustyRing
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Otte Homan - remember Geordie
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Radio Free Trumpistan
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •@Sarah Taber
...and then there were the Los Angeles Zoot Suit Riots, 1943. There was more to that than just a catchy tune by Cherry Poppin Daddies--it actually happened.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoot_Suiโฆ
MooMoo the Cat
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •GhostOnTheHalfShell
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Jargoggles
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •"They're rounding people up just because of their skin color and locking them up!"
Yeah, like you said, I'm just glad people are speaking up about this in a big way because this has been happening for decades. I think one of the key differences is that they've dropped the pretense that what they're doing is "justice."
Liberals have been more than happy to lock black and brown people up en masse as long as they can run them through the system first. If someone is convicted of a crime, they're completely okay with throwing them in prison. Does "convicted" mean "guilty?" Should what they were convicted of even be a crime? We've never really had a meaningful conversation about that in this country.
But the numbers really speak for themselves. Things *were not okay* before Trump was elected. When this fascist regime falls apart, we *cannot* go back to how things were before.
House Panther
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Real Quack
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •American exceptionalism strikes again.
We think of ourselves as special, so anything we personally experience is the superlative, because it's happening in our present.
This is what they mean about people who don't study history.
We are not setting the benchmarks on anything except as relates to the climate crisis. Which isn't new, either, but which is demonstrably worsening.
Cardboard Robot
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Rob Hadley
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Sure you're making history.
Don't expect anyone to respect it.
Do we wish Americans Happy independence day'?
From who exactly?
From the thousands dying now abandoned by USAID, or those in Ukraine who suffer by the reduction in military aid? Or maybe from Palestinians shot by so called 'American aid contractors'? Or maybe the 132,000 trans people who will now be denied medical care?
Yeah. Happy 'Independence Day', assholes.
#happy4thofjuly #july4th
InarticulateQuilter
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •le Pรฉtomane Ancien
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Chris Real
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •I know you want to reassure people that "It's been bad like this before", butโ
Never before has a president been RE-electedโAFTER 2 impeachments.
AND an attempted coup.
Don't normalize unrest and oppression. Your good intentions are a complex form of denialโsearch yourself for this flaw before you double down.
And the "How DARE you question my intention!' defense has already been discredited.
No one should be reassured until this crisis has been ACTUALLY defeated.
Cynthia ๐ฃ๐ณ๏ธโโง๏ธ
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Tom ๐ต๐ธ ๐บ๐ฆ
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Lรธr
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Cazz
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Chris Real
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •This is happytalk by deniers.
Just because the bad guys are bad, doesn't the opportunists aren't thirsty.
'Americans on Mastodon' are best served by ignoring opportunists, and their happytalking co-opters . . .
Quercus ๐กโช๐ฃโซ
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •This is a great, informed take. Not rose colored glasses but forward thinking and historically grounded. I couldn't agree more about the whole 'this being the worst timeline' being really problematic. That's a cop out; that's throwing your hands up; that's giving yourself an excuse to give up and not try. It's showing a lack of imagination, if you truly cant think of worse things. There were times during the Cold War people lived in constant fear of nuclear annihilation. It's also showing a lack of historical knowledge, especially knowing that the underlying issues of what is happening (racism, sexism) are foundational particularly to Western culture, and human culture in general. We've never actually had a reckoning with our past (or present). To think that these issues were just going to go away quietly is naive, or that somehow with education we had suddenly become not-racist. It's also not surprising that we are having a hard time forming a coherent resistance party given how much technology has changed politics in the last 20 years, and given the diversity and complexity of global problems we are facing. Let's give this issue, the rise of violent ultra-nationalism in the 21st century, its due as the complex historical problem that it is and not get frustrated when we can't solve it or defeat it in six months. But like you say, there are signs that American society as a whole, not just those directly persecuted, are resisting in ways that are novel. We are far from powerless here and I'm really tired of takes that paint us as such.
#USpol #CanadaPolitics #EUpol #resist #NoKings #Protest
@martlund ๐ฒ๐ถ๐ธ๐ช๐จ๐ฑ๐
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Burnt Veggies
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •ChatTC
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •David
in reply to Sarah Taber • • •Making history?
#usa has been making history the last 250 years, fucking every other country around the world. ๐คฌ๐คฌ๐คฌ