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The math of blood quantum is straight-forward.
Suppose a tribe has 1,000 enrolled citizens. Let’s assume they are all full-blood for starters, but half the children born are mixed – their other parent either from another tribe or non-Native. Continuing this, after seven generations, 2% will be full-blood, 9% will be half, 23% will be quarter, 31% will be 1/8th, 23% will be 1/16th, and 11% will be less than that. You can see where this going. By the eighth generation, half the tribe will be less than 1/8th. It’s a recipe for what the white man called “extermination.”
We share Aaron’s own summary of his anarchist politics, followed by memories from three of his close friends.
map of contributions to Israel by US state/major metro areas
The human brain evolved over millions of years. Most psychologists agree, it's good at responding to immediate threats.
It's terrible at responding to slow, gradual threats, even when they're far more important. As Brian Merchant writes in Vice, "Humans have, historically, proven absolutely awful, even incapable, of comprehending the large, looming... slow burn threats facing their societies." In Collapse, Jared Diamond chronicles how leaders of past civilizations failed to address clear dangers because it was easier to shrug them off and downplay them.
People with mobility and mental health problems will be asked to work from home or lose benefits as part of what a UK government minister described today as doing “their duty”.
June 2023