@PlasticJohnny Search is just not working today. If you want to try to find them, I wrote two core threads around this time last year, talking about whiteness as an unculture and talking about why the neofolk "band" Heilung speaks to white people in a profound level we don't understand. Both go into it, in one I talk about bluegrass as an ethnic music that isn't "white" actually, etc.

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I've spoken about it in other posts as well, but those cover the broad strokes.

@PlasticJohnny Oh right, The Troubles of course.

The Ireland situation actually goes way back centuries, then long before that they and Scotland were the only Celtic regions to remain independent of Roman rule.

My family are settlers and colonizers, sure, but my West Virginian Irish ancestors were fleeing the famine, which was a 100% colonization-caused problem. It was starve or join the colonizers elsewhere.

Search has been working weirdly on my instance so let me see what I can find. I've been speaking on this and other related concepts on the #AbuseCulture tag for many years (going back to Twitter) until I get a chance to write a blog or book.

Another one. I recently learned of how in England, leading into the Industrial Revolution the Commons, or commonly owned land that anyone could farm, was sold off by the government to various lords and powerful people in exchange for favors. This forced farm labor into the factories.

Which is exactly the same playbook we see in more recent history in China and south east Asia, where farmland is made untenable for one reason or other, forcing rural farmers into cheap factory labor.

I don't know enough to draw a direct line, but these are the same picture. This is the same playbook.

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A similar through line goes from American slavery to modern policing and prison labor, as documented in the film The 13th.

There are also similar patterns between, say, the Magdalene Laundries in Ireland, native residential schools in the US and Canada, and the Christian affiliated American "troubled teen industry." It is the exact same picture. In fact, I can draw a direct line between the LDS residential placement program (defunct), the YES teen work program in Hawaii, and troubled teen camps (still legally operating).

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A lot of MAGA right now, those who aren't at their core about hate and power grabs, they're in the phase just the other side of FAFO, where they're destabilized in their belief systems.

This is the point where they're going to be open to listening.

But not if we aggro at them.

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Maybe we could culture jam AI using elephant jokes.

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