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Who are the bigger assholes? The natives who have a history of being literally genocided by the white government's lust for profits, or an oil company, who is helping destroy the earth by pushing more and more carbon into the atmosphere? According to goons, it's the protesters.
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blowfish posted:Just because natives are protesting something doesn't mean it's necessarily an issue of natives vs colonialists, especially if the land is outside the last treaty the natives themselves considered to be a victory. Also, you are making the mistake of 1) focusing on a single issue and 2) thinking that just because one side are usually the bigger assholes that means they are automatically wrong on every single issue do you realize that a treaty that is signed under duress and physical threat of annihilation is not really a binding treaty or are you ignoring that
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it probably means that they realized that they only had a very narrow opportunity where they had the upper hand before the white man decided to start loving them again such as less than 10 years later
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Were you one of the few posters who was there? If not, I don't know if 'we' did it is correct. Regardless, I'm happy it's.. delayed at least?
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Dec 5, 2016 00:13
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Personally, looking st all the historical evidence of the government and US citizens being loving awful to the natives and seeing how oppressed and poverty stricken they are today, I have come to a judgement call. Instead of delaying my giant oil pipeline that will help make me even more rich, I figured we could go ahead and sic attack dogs and water cannons on the protestors. Remember that if you give even one inkling of leniency where the law is concerned, the world is anarchy. Like even if they are protesting unlawfully, which is true... I'd think it's at least morally permissible and we should chill out. The oils not gonna disappear if the pipeline waits a little while. I'm not sure how this is a loving contentious opinion but here we are in D&D
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Dec 5, 2016 01:10
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The loving treaty you guys keep talking about as sacrosanct was betrayed less than a decade later by the US Government.
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Dec 5, 2016 01:37
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Was dead reckoning one of the people who argued earlier in the thread that a journalist being 'shot' implied that it was with real bullets but now he is saying that this privately owned oil pipeline that is for profit is 'infrastructure' because it facilitates movement of oil, I guess?
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Like, yes, I agree that shot usually connotates with real bullets as opposed to rubber bullets. I also believe that most people understand the word infrastructure to mean public works that help more than a small group of billionaires.
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Dec 5, 2016 03:45
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If we just had a second trail of tears out into the ocean we could solve this whole issue.
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They probably realize people gonna die and don't want that to happen. Plus with pres trump the pipeline is 100% gonna happen.
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