Millenia of death, destruction, and complete control beg to differ. Would you say that 85% of the entire population of the planet consumes toktok style video and inseperably integrates the, ethical, moral and overall life lessons they witness there into their own lives at every level? Do most people sit in quiet contemplation repeating the content out loud until it becomes subconscious reaction? Are the laws of many countries framed by toktok style short video lessons?

I could go on, but on its face your argument falls flat. I’ve watched people quit many different drugs, and it’s obvious which ones are more addictive. Heroin is obviously more addictive than marijuana. People kill themselves and others for a fix on H. No one is killing for a bong rip.

Though MJ certainly has more users and more people talk about how they might want to quit and sort of “struggle with the concept”, they may “relapse” easier because the consequences are far smaller, stigma is less, and access is easier, deciding to quit and then stopping MJ is lifetimes easier than heroin. Because MJ is dramatically less addictive.

I’ve seen people struggling to quit social media, but it’s not even close to the multi-decade, daily life struggle of a mormon before they finally leave the church. Billions have murdered to keep or push their faith, the same cannot be said for toktok.

They are certainly not avoiding other mass behavior control. So I don’t think this is it.

They’ve been doing half of what you listed, for decades.

Argh!

Yes

“We’re the strongest race!”

“Argh the sunlight!”
“Argh spices!”
“Argh a word that has no violence behind it!”

And that’s exactly why the Democrats let this all happen, and don’t put up a fight at all.

“Next time, vote for the corpo and shut the fuck up like a good boy.” -DNC

They lie to themselves and others constantly to justify their actions, and get extremely angry at anyone who points out anything ever in any way. Or, they openly hate most people. It’s like being around a glass of nitroglycerine.

No one said sedentary agriculture. Clearly you measure organized activity by very narrow standards.

“Didn’t cultivate the landscape”, what complete trash.

The same system that claimed Columbus discovered America, then finally relented that “other Europeans had gotten there first”, is also finding it impossible to accept this. Meanwhile there is oral history that can be verifibly dated back to the caps melting at least partway. As well as loads of physical evidence that constantly gets “dismissed” because it “couldn’t have possibly been that way”.

Indigenous people are little more than a novelty backdrop with which to hang colonial “superiority”. Well done proving that at least.

That 15,000 year figure has long been proven wrong, and other hominids were here even earlier than humans were.

Even to this day, all across north and south America, people are still benefitting from the work indigenous people put into the soil and water. Both continents were a garden because the whole of them had been hand-tended for at least a hundred and fifty thousand years.

I’m reminded of the words of the first European in Louisiana. He crashed there and lived with various indigenous groups for 8 years before he got out. Some highlights:

• I’m always burned. My skin peels constantly, like I’m some kind of lizard
• The mosquitos cover me all day every day. They don’t seem to bother the natives. I’m covered in welps, and the fires that keep them away burn my eyes
• I’m always hungry. They tell me “don’t worry, the feast is coming soon” but it turns out that was three months away. And then, after walking for weeks, ‘the feast’ was only prickly pears! They ate until their bellies were distended. I tried, I was so hungry, but the fruit stung the inside of my mouth and made me raw inside from top to bottom. I could only manage three or four
• I finally got a piece of meat to cook today. As I had it on a stick in the fire a man came by, snatched it bare handed from the fire and ate it raw. He laughed in my face and walked away

Over 8 years he never got used to it. These complaints were constant. He only survived because of the kindness of the indigenous groups he came across.

Don’t feel bad for him either. When he finally convinced a group to get him to the white folks, against their own terror at the idea, they were immediately slaughtered. He had them lay down their weapons ahead of time and everything, promising good treatment. His protestations afterwards consisted of “you didn’t have to do that.”

laughs in ancient punk

nazis don’t care about the values embedded in the culture before they show up, and they won’t listen to your critiques on how they don’t fit. nazis don’t hear nothing except bats and boots.

Other than the people actually doing it and all the people who voted for it, yes.

It’s not between the executive and the legislative branches yet, but the judiciary has been ordering the executive to do things for a year and they keep ignoring the rulings. Ice has ignored hundreds and hundreds of court orders and has been caught lying in court at least as many times.

Building? It’s built, utilities are on, slaves are in the basement, pool is surrounded by Eastern European children, and trump is sleeping in his BJ chair.

They mean “golden age” in the piss on it sense.

It feels good when what you want as a police man is stifled by “accountability”, but you get to see the ice agents doing it with impunity. They’re not pissed, they talk about how awesome it is in the locker room.

What.
The.
Fuck.