Last Wednesday, Lux Claridge planned to speak out against a proposed 1,000 acre data center in their town of Emporia, Kansas. They left in handcuffs after a city commissioner ordered them arrested for clapping.

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          I’ll go one step further, I’m tired of pretending like the people causing problems in America didn’t come from Europe. As a Native American I firmly believe that Europe needs to clean up its colonial mess.

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            Europe exported most of its problematic behavior and now likes to pretend it’s the model of civilization

            The only continent they didn’t directly fuck up is Antarctica, and that’s just because it wasn’t profitable to colonise

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          I think they overwhelmingly do, and it’s a good comparison to make. Democratic People’s Republic of Korea?

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            Theu do the bare minimum. They definitely don’t export their propaganda to the rest of the world as hard as the US does it.