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findingjoynweirdstuff · 3 years

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DSMP Anniversary Recap: L’MANBERG

After their drug business idea resulted in disaster last time, Wilbur comes back to the server with a second plan: to turn their humble Camarvan into a new, independent server where no Americans are whitelisted.

The first order of business? Build a wall.

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The previous day, Wilbur and Tommy discussed their plans for building an empire as Tommy constructed an underground sewer system, a nation where selling drugs is allowed.

“How do you know Sapnap’s not gonna like, I dunno, you know what they’re like, man, how do we know they’re not gonna…make it a war?”

“How I see it is they can declare war, they can do whatever they want, but if we just ignore them and don’t acknowledge it, we win. We can’t lose...”

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- Tommy’s noticed that the server is full of fighting, and he wants money. How does one monetize fighting? A fight club! He can make a fight club in his basement

- Alyssa comes over and hands him a poppy with Ponk. Ponk explains that Alyssa is his lawyer

- Wilbur tells Tommy off for being rude to them

- Later, Sapnap comes over to his basement. Tommy touches the “Do Not Touch” chest and falls to his death

- Sapnap likes Tommy’s fight club idea and helps him dig out the room

- Wilbur joins Tommy’s VC as Tommy is speaking with Sapnap and scolds him for talking with an American, pulling him into a different VC.

Last time, they tried to sell drugs out of their hotdog van and some people didn’t approve of that. This time? Wilbur wants a revolution.

Wilbur: “Starting a movement is easy. You know, Tommy? Anyone can start a movement. Movements are cool. If you start a movement towards a common good, you’re cool! You know? Nothing ever goes wrong! Revolutions are hard, Tommy. Lots of people are gonna oppose us, Tommy.”

- The first thing they need to do…is build a wall

- Wilbur logs on in the Camarvan and sees Tubbo’s package of blaze rods. Tommy asks how much armor he should be wearing, Wilbur says none

Wilbur: “We don’t win wars with battles and with armor. We win wars with our words, Tommy. We’re starting a revolution, not a war.”

- He opens the package of blaze rods from Tubbo and talks about how his wildest dream is a nation where they can sell drugs with no one to stop them

Wilbur: “Why are you being all quiet and slow to talk to me?”

Tommy: “No no no, I’m just trying to decipher who’s on the right side of history right now.”

- Wilbur shows Tommy all the blaze rods. They’re on the right side of history. Tommy shows Wilbur the flaming hotdog on top of the van. He likes it

- The first law of their new place is that no UHC block placement is allowed (he demonstrates by parkouring across the water). That’s banned

- Sapnap comes over and gives Wilbur some blaze rods

Wilbur: “Oh yeah, you can’t buy our peace from your tyranny.”

Sapnap: (whispering to Wilbur) I’ve changed Sapnap: just Sapnap: look Sapnap: Ive tried brewing

Wilbur: once an American always an American

- Tommy punches him away and Sapnap goes away. They call him. Sapnap says, though he can’t join their posse, once their empire grows he wants to buy their potions. He’s possibly addicted to their supply. They have their first export

- Wilbur needs sand, gravel and dandelions for the wall. He sends Tommy on his way. Tommy asks the new empire’s policy on women. Wilbur says they’re allowed as long as they’re European

- Wilbur starts drawing out the border and asks him what their new nation should be called

- Dream logs on. Tommy asks Wilbur how he and Dream have been since they flirted. Wilbur says he just wants to rob George of his loves. Wilbur asks Dream if he wants to kiss

Wilbur: “He’s not responding. Is he gonna ban me for xenophobia?”

Dream: (in chat) who

Wilbur: (in chat) you

Tommy: “What’s…what’s ‘xeno…?’”

Wilbur: “A distaste towards other countries.”

Tommy: “Oh look, here’s Tubbo. He’s on his own adventure.”

Dream: social distancing

Wilbur: SMART

Tubbo fell from a high place.

- Wilbur screams after getting startled by Tommy coming into the van. Tommy throws him a carrot (“Have a carrot, please, calm yourself”) and gives Wilbur the supplies for the concrete

- Tommy goes to speak with “Small T” (Tubbo) and they get him in VC. Tommy tells him “viva la revolution!” and asks for some sand. They also need black dye

Wilbur: “Tubbo, what’s your stance on the States?”

Tubbo: “Those United States? I mean, I’ve heard stuff’s pretty nuts over there so I guess it’s not going great for them.”

Wilbur: “Yeah, we’re pulling a reverse independence.”

Tommy: “Yeah, we’re taking away their independence!”

Wilbur: “No no no no no, we’re not – no no, they’re staying independent. We’re claiming independence from the server.”

Tubbo: “I thought everyone was already independent? Everyone can already do what they want.”

Wilbur: “No, see, when you’re on this server, you’re on the Dream SMP, right? Yeah, we’re making our own land so that when you are in our borders you are no longer on the Dream SMP.”

Tubbo: “Oh…okay…”

- From the drug war a few days ago, Wilbur’s decided that the Americans can’t be trusted to run their own nation

Wilbur: “So what we’re doing is we’re – we’re taking control. We’re making our own nation.”

Tubbo: “Nice!”

Wilbur: “Our own server. And we’re gonna make the Americans pay for it!”

Tubbo: “Wai– uhhhh…”

Wilbur: “See the thing is, Tubbo, server upkeep costs money. A pittance to Dream, may I add, the billionaire thing he is, but like, we still – we’re gonna be still not paying a single penny for the upkeep of the server. But we will have our own independent emancipated land that will not be part of the server.”

- Tubbo is onboard. They ask Tubbo for name suggestions. Tubbo suggests “Not Dream SMP.” Wilbur wants something more original

- Tommy comes back with an idea. There’s only one woman on the server, and they won’t be letting her into the state since she’s American, so what he’s thinking is:

Tommy: “Why don’t we call it…Manberg? Or alternatively, Mantopia?”

Wilbur: “I like Mantopia. But how do we make it European? United Manberg.”

Tommy: “United Mantopia. UNM – wait, lemme Google if it means anything offensive—"

- Since it only stands for the University of New Mexico, Tommy decides it’s good. But Wilbur realizes it sounds too much like the United States

Wilbur: “What about ‘Le?’ Le-Man-berg.”

Tommy: (in chat) le man burg

- Wilbur declares it “L’manberg,” as that’s how the French do it – and the French are quite big on their revolutions. “Lemonburg” is declared a slur in their nation. They will cancel anyone who calls it that

- Tubbo takes off his armor and they discuss “war-winning words.” Wilbur quotes Hamilton and Tommy suspects him of lyric pranking

- Wilbur is the general of L’manberg and Tommy is his right-hand man. Tommy suggests they make the Camarvan an embassy but Wilbur declares it the capital, the state building instead

- Tommy gives Wilbur a stone hoe and Wilbur hoes a single piece of land outside the van before getting an idea. He hoes another piece of land and declares it the “unsullied ground.” Tommy starts singing Hallelujah to it

- Wilbur wants revolutionary skins. He wants a redcoat skin. Their slogan? “L’manberg: We are alarming.”

- There is a hidden clause in Tubbo and Tommy joining L’manberg, and that is that they will have to have houses there. They are citizens

- Tubbo spends a minute spinning around trying to find Wilbur

- They spot Dream nearby and go to speak to him. He says he’s just chilling. Wilbur tells Tommy to shout war words at him

- Dream joins the call and they tell him that “L’manberg” is seceding from Dream SMP. This is their own server now. Dream notes that it seems pretty small, but Wilbur tells him it’s what they do with it that counts

- Dream asks what happens if the rest of the server decides to take over the land. Wilbur says that’s not how servers work. The laws – or “gamerules,” rather, of their server is that PvP is turned off. Wilbur tells him that he’s not whitelisted in their server and has to stay out. All they want is Dream’s acknowledgement – and he’s paying for it

- Wilbur tells him he can set up his own visa and whitelist for Dream SMP and that they don’t need anything outside of these walls. All Tommy and Tubbo need is to move all their items there. Dream is skeptical and asks Tubbo if he’s really doing that

Tubbo: “…HEYYY, so I was born in the Dream SMP, and um…”

Tommy: “Yeah yeah, as was I! I was also born over there so really, we have duo citizenship—”

Wilbur: “—There’s no dual citizenship in our nation. Our nation has zero dual citizenship.”

Tubbo: (crosstalk) “Wait, why are you making it difficult for us?”

Wilbur: “Look at me. Do you boys care about the revolution?”

Tommy: “…Yes.”

Wilbur: “Look, Dream isn’t our enemy. He’s our neighbor. But, we are seceding from his tyrannical rule.”

Tubbo: “What’s ‘tyrannical’ mean?”

Wilbur: (laughs) “Big words. That’s what we use in war. Say it, Tubbo.”

Tubbo: “Tyran-zanical.”

- They argue back and forth about infinite women

- Tommy suggests that they call his land, which is in Dream SMP, an embassy instead. In return, Dream can set up an embassy in L’manberg

- Eret logs on and Dream walks away

- It’s time to make Invisibility potions. Eret joins the call and they fill him in

- Wilbur locks Tommy and Tubbo in the van until they make Invisibility potions and leaves. Neither of them want to play with “the weird neighbor’s child”

- Wilbur explains to Eret that the issue last time was not the drugs, but that the Americans got involved and now they’re making their own server where Americans aren’t whitelisted. Eret already has visa by being a European.

They’re calling it “Drexit”

- Tommy goes to his base to establish the embassy. Wilbur makes a “scum window” in the wall

- Tommy sees Dream at the embassy, telling him he has to follow the L’manburg rules on the land

- Tommy is allowed to start a “fight club” not just in his embassy, but even in L’manburg itself

- Wilbur is horrified when he notices that the holy soil has become untilled. He calls Eret over and they re-till it

- Wilbur declares the four of them the founding fathers. Tommy asks if he is Hamilton

Tubbo: “Was Abraham Lincoln a founding father?”

Wilbur: “No, he was several hundred years after.”

Tubbo: “Oh.”

Eret: “Just a few hundred years off, you know? Easy mistake to make.”

Tubbo: “Better late than never.”

- Tommy yells at Tubbo for going through his chests and threatens to kill him. Eret and Wilbur start whispering to each other and Tommy and Tubbo become self-aware

- Tommy notices Alyssa and Dream approaching the embassy

Tommy: “Good news and bad news. I’ve got you a woman. Bad news? She’s American.”

- Wilbur starts laughing so hard he has to stand up and walk away while Tommy and Dream bicker

- Tommy calls Niki on the phone, telling her they need women who aren’t American, but Niki isn’t whitelisted yet. Tommy asks Dream to add her and he declines. Wilbur tells Dream not to add her as it would delegitimize the manhood of L’manburg

Tommy: Too shay

Dream: too shay

- Wilbur, hungry, goes “manfishing,” whispering “salmon” repeatedly as he kills them

- Both Tubbo and Eret have done well. Wilbur tells Tommy he really is the “Hamilton” of their nation and hasn’t done much for them

- The signature meal of L’manburg is salmon

- Tommy and Wilbur start rapping “Non-Stop” from Hamilton the musical

- Wilbur and Tommy walk and talk

Wilbur: “Look around.”

Tommy: “At how happy we are to be alive right now.”

- Wilbur reminds Tommy of how far they’ve come, but Tommy has done very little in terms of setting up. Tommy takes Wilbur to the embassy

- Wilbur changes the sign on Tommy’s house to read “L’Manburg Embassy” and says he feels that Tommy isn’t fully devoted to the cause. Tommy doesn’t want to give up his home and tries suggesting the Power Tower instead

- Wilbur leaves Tommy and returns to L’manburg

Wilbur: “Chat…I think we’ve lost him. I think we’ve lost TommyInnit.”

- Wilbur doesn’t approve of Tommy living with the enemy. Tommy finally agrees to give up his home to be the embassy

- Wilbur tells them it’s time to don the skins

- Tommy notices that the forest outside L’manburg’s borders is on fire. In the distance he spots Alyssa and angrily runs after her

Tommy: “Wilbur! Wilbur! Do I kill the woman?”

Tubbo: “Yes!”

Wilbur: “Yes! Yes, Tommy! You kill the woman!”

- Wilbur and Tubbo start running after as well

Eret: “I thought we use our words! I thought we used our words!”

Tommy: “No.”

Wilbur: “Not in this case. Anyone -- they’ve tried to burn down our forest.”

Tubbo: “We care most about the forest.”

- They are like the Lorax. Alyssa combat logs. When she logs back in, Tommy kills her. Punz immediately shoots Tommy down, outraged that he would kill a woman

- Alyssa calls them and asks for her stuff back, saying she didn’t start the forest fire. Sapnap logs on and arrives with Punz. They start walking back

- The fire is still spreading and Tommy thinks it might be a political attack. Wilbur turns around and tells Tommy to go home. This isn’t a political attack and Tommy is too dangerous, running his mouth and talking too much

Tommy: “Tell me the thing he says in the second song of the musical Hamilton.”

Wilbur: “I think about death so much it feels more like a memory.”

- Wilbur dismisses Tommy, growing more and more annoyed as Tommy keeps on reciting various song lyrics to him

- Sapnap and Dream arrive as Wilbur goes off to get materials. Punz puts out the forest fire and Fundy has just logged on, confused

- Sapnap and Dream take Tubbo hostage in a hole in the ground. Tubbo drops Tommy an Invisibility potion

- Sapnap and Dream kill them as Wilbur arrives, losing them the Invisibility potions

- Wilbur gathers everyone in the Camarvan, a book and quill in hand. It’s time to draft the Declaration:

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DECLARATION OF INDEPENDANCE

Signed: Wilbur Soot Tubbo_ TommyInnit ERET

Forever the nation of the DreamSMP have cast great sins upon our great land of the hto dog van.

They have robbed us. Imprisoned us. Threatened us. Killed many of our men.

This time of tyranny ends with us

This book declares that the nation which shall be henceforth known as L’Manberg is seperate, emancipated and independant from the nation of DreamSMP.

The union of the masters of men. Together we are one. When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one to dissolve the bonds which bind us. Disregarding of this truth is nothing short of tyranny.

WE HOLD THESE TRUTHS TO BE SELF EVIDENT. THAT ALL _MEN_ ARE CREATED EQUAL

The right of the people exists above the right of the king. The right of the government and the right of the economy.

From the hto dog van we shall prevail.

Life. Liberty. And the pursuit of victory.

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- The four sign the Declaration on the roof of the Camarvan, witnessed by Dream, Sapnap, Punz and Fundy watching from afar. Wilbur frames it in the van

- An invisible person arrives in the van to deliver a second book:

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Declaration Of War

Sometimes you just gotta kill some people sometimes yaknow - Sun Tzu

Dream SMP declares war on la’manburg

JOINT RESOLUTION --PUNZ --SAPNAP --DREAM

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- Wilbur and Dream exchange books

- Wilbur gives some motivational words to the L’manburgians. This is how they consolidate can power. This is an opportunity

Wilbur: “We do not fight a war of – of the war of greater sticks. We’re not looking for technological advancement, right. The war we’re fighting is gonna be done through guerilla tactics. It’s gonna be done through attrition…”

“And I want you guys on my side.”

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UPCOMING ANNIVERSARY DATES:

July 31: Fundy becomes Wilbur’s son

August 2: Doomsday

August 3: Jack Manifold joins the server

August 6: Niki joins the server

August 9: Wilbur, Tommy and Tubbo create a drug park

#dream smp #dream smp recaps #dream smp anniversary recaps #long post #that's right i'm a burg believer and I spelt it berg in the title #this one is like 50% transcriptions i'm sorry I couldn't help myself #this stream is just too quotable

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ukrainianfellow · 3 years

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The opposition continues to blackmail the "Georgian Dream", threaten and destabilize the Georgian society.

If the ruling Georgian Dream party does not make concessions to the opposition and hold repeated parliamentary elections, the international community will intervene. On January 27, one of the leaders of the United National Movement party, Salome Samadashvili, stated this on the air of Public Television.

"If we come to a one-party parliament, the strategy of the international partners will, of course, change," the UNM representative threatened. She hopes that if representatives of the opposition and the authorities do not come to an agreement, then international pressure will be exerted on the Georgian government. Samadashvili cited the parliamentary elections in Serbia in 2020 as an example. “The international community put pressure on the government after the elections, and the government had to hold early elections. I think that similar processes will develop in our country, too, ”Samadashvili noted arrogantly, comparing Georgia with Serbia.

Also on Wednesday, January 27, Salome said on the air of the Palitra News TV channel that the political situation that has developed in Georgia does not allow the country to come close to joining the European Union. Earlier, the ruling Georgian Dream party announced that Georgia would apply for EU membership in 2024, and to this end, government representatives began to hold consultations in Europe.

“It's a little funny when, against the backdrop of what is happening in the country, Georgian Dream says that they will apply to join the European Union during their rule. In this political situation, which has developed, Georgia will have no chances to come nearer to joining the EU, ”Salome laughed at the ruling party.

Thus, Samadashvili is trying with some far-fetched facts and reasons to openly blackmail the ruling party in the face of its Western partners and the entire Georgian people, who, in her opinion, day and night only dream of joining the European Union. Although now everyone in the country already understands: whoever holds the majority in parliament, Georgia will still be very far from EU standards and joining it for a long time. Therefore, any attempts by Samadashvili to accuse the ruling party of all sins seem ridiculous, and her statements only destabilize and shake the Georgian society.

In addition, representatives of the opposition are again beginning to threaten the tranquility of a country that has long been tired of continuous crises with revolutions. Thus, one of the leaders of the United National Movement party, Khatia Dekanoidze, on January 25 suddenly announced that all the possibilities for negotiations between representatives of the ruling Georgian Dream party and the leaders of the opposition parties in Georgia were "exhausted", and the next step would now be a "peaceful revolution" ... “I am preparing for a peaceful revolution in all its forms. A peaceful revolution is a revolution in which we will peacefully accept power from the ruling party through elections, with a great mood, with protest actions, ”Dekanoidze said. The leader of the Girchi - More Freedom party, Zurab Japaridze, also stated that it is necessary to "change the government" in a revolutionary way in Georgia. He also noted that he was in favor of "peaceful" protests.

True, the people have now become much smarter and are well aware that lately in the world almost all "peaceful" revolutions end in blood, and the leaders who have come to power, over time, fall ill with the same vices as their predecessors …

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mralkhazraji-blog · 5 years

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The symbology of Anti/Indigenous Ideology

M. Alkhazraji

If something’s fame is measured by the number of people who know about it then the most famous thing in the world is McDonald's. Its Iconic yellow M exists and is known in countries that don’t even have McDonald's, In my city of birth Sulaymaniyah, Iraq there was a building with the symbol on it everybody knew what it stood for but most people including me didn’t know what was in the building (It wasn’t a McDonalds). Symbols can often mean more than the objects they are on.

In This paper, I will be looking at two cases where symbols represented and participated in the furthering of Anti/Indigenous Ideologies. I side with the removal and change of these symbols however in this paper my goal is to point out the Ideology that exists and how it is furthered by these symbols. I will also show the consequences of the Ideology and how to try to counter it. The two symbols are the Washington football teams name and icon and the UNM Seal.

For this paper, I did a lot of research and relied on a lot of knowledge I acquired during this semester. While synthesizing the information I found myself taking a lot of ideas from a lit review I did on Indigenous history and Ideology. While reading my sources I was trying to fit them in my head so that they would fit in a logical pattern and this is what came out.

The Washington football team’s name is the redskins, which is referring to the skin color of the Indigenous Americans. This was a topic of controversy and was even taken to court by Indigenous activists like Amanda Blackhorse, this, however, was in vain because Daniel Snyder, the owner, won the case and kept the name. [1]

The word redskins is considered a racial slur (Meriam Webster’s dictionary) and has a very offensive historical background. It was used in the past in conjunction with the scalping of the Indigenous. Indigenous scalps were traded in for money during the 1800s. In the movie more than a word that reports the case of the Washington football team’s name, there was a scene which showed a flyer that said 200$ for REDSKINS scalps. Sometimes I wonder what it feels like for Indigenous people when they see or hear that word perhaps, they reminded by the atrocities that their ancestors suffered.

Sports and teams bring people together and create a sense of unity, examples of this are the Superbowl and the NBA finals. These events bring millions of people together to root for their favorite teams and have a good time. The symbols that represent these teams should also reflect that.

(multi-channel news)

In more than a word, there were “Interviews” with fans of the football team who thought that the name was harmless or even honoring the Indigenous. This honoring is not reflected by the mascot of the team who is usually a white man that walks out into the field “dressed like an Indian” and starts dancing around and making a fool of himself. The symbol above and the man is wearing feathers that belong to different tribes. This normalizes the Indigenous and strips them away from their tribal Identity. The mascot runs around the field acting like a savage, it’s as if they are trying to say that the Indigenous are savage folk.

The UNM University seal is the official seal that is found on diplomas and official documents. “It depicts a frontiersman and a conquistador flanking a stylized UNM acronym. The former holds a rifle; the latter, a sword. Their backs are turned to the letters as they stare off in either direction. Above the acronym sits a roadrunner, ostensibly derived from Zia Pueblo mythological iconography…Looked at together, the frontiersman and the conquistador clearly appear to be guarding “UNM.” They represent two separate and opposed colonial enterprises that, the seal would suggest, have united against the indigenous people who once occupied the land on which UNM sits”. Historically conquistadors and frontiersman caused a lot of damage to the Indigenous people taking their lives and lands. The question that this brings up is who are they guarding the university against? The people whose land the university was built on. [2]

(KUNM)

The red nation has reproduced the seal so that It reflects what the seal feels like to them. The redesign has the same UNM letters flanked by the conquistador and frontiersman. However now there is a pile of skulls and bones that the two men are standing on, there is also a watermark that reads “What Indians”. The skulls and bones refer to the Indigenous that were killed by those men. The watermark is an answer to the question where are the Indians? the people who lived in this area why aren’t they in this University? Why are They Underrepresented?

(The Red Nation)

This reinterpretation of the seal really shows the celebration of violence against the Indigenous that the seal portrays. A University seal that is found on diplomas is meant to authenticate documents, but more importantly, it furnishes the document giving it a story and a history. It signifies that your hard work and accrued knowledge is acknowledged by the University and that you will be forever part of its legacy. You will be forever part of this Anti/Indigenous celebration.

According to Barbara Jean Fields, an Ideology is an understanding of reality, it is ingrained in us and it develops over time. all races have a certain Ideologies related to them, we often think of these as stereotypes and we consider them offensive. Ideologies, unlike stereotypes, are believed and accepted by us, there is an ideology of Indigenous inferiority. There are people who think that the redskins is an appropriate name for a football team not because they are bad people but because that’s what was ingrained in them. The symbol of an Indigenous man with feathers on his head and the tomfoolery of a white man dressed up as an “Indian” are the product of Ideology that was in the making since Columbus set foot on this continent. [3]

These things I just mentioned further the Ideology. When a kid is watching a game for the first time and he/she sees those symbols and acts he/she will go back to this memory whenever they think about the Indigenous. I will prove this to you now. Think about Indigenous peoples what images pop up, most likely something like this even though most Indigenous don’t look like this now.

(Pinterest)

The reason these Ideologies are so dangerous is their impact on society. Consider the black lives matter movement that made it to international news, this movement was sparked by the murder of a black person. Compare the media attention given to this event to the media attention given to the murder of the three Navajo people in Albuquerque. You probably haven’t heard about this, this is because this event barely made the local news. This means the media thought that this story wasn’t worth telling, the media decided that the murder of three Navajo people isn’t equivalent to the murder of people of a different race.[4]

Corporations and the government are using these ideologies to justify the dispossession of native people and their land. The events of standing rock are a prime example of this, in short, the government and the corporations are after the resources in native land that the Indigenous “Can’t extract” or more appropriately “don’t know how to extract”. The Corporations and the government are claiming that the Indigenous don’t know how to cultivate their land and use it effectively. This is the same justification that they used to take the land and the lives of the indigenous in the past. In Race Class and Marxism, one of the justifications of slavery was that the inferior people (slaves) are savages that don’t know how to use their resources and time efficiently, so it was the job of the white man to “civilize” them and make them reach their potential. [5]

Now that we mentioned symbols and how they represent and push Anti/Indigenous Ideologies, and analyzed the Impact of these Ideologies on society, I think its time to propose a solution. This furthering of the ideology and belittling of the Indigenous won’t fix itself just like how slavery didn’t fix itself, it took a civil war to end slavery this won’t go by just by a blog or two. I am not proposing war as the only solution, however, I am trying to say that this will require hard work.

As all solutions to societies problems, the solution must begin with spreading awareness. These symbols were in place for a long time without many protestations, most people don’t see how these symbols spread these ideologies, this must change. People should point out what is wrong and tell that to other people and when those people object, they should be shown that they are following the Ideology and aren’t thinking outside it.

Once the majority is convinced that these symbols are promoting Anti/Indigenous Ideologies and see what the Implication of these Ideologies are, there will be a natural push to remove those Symbols. However the hard part is convincing people of these things, it won't be as easy as telling them because there are benefits to the existence and furtherment of these Ideologies for some powerful Individuals and corporations. Those Individuals and corporations are going to try to convince the public that these symbols don’t represent these Ideologies in order to protect their Interests such as their brand in the case of Washington football team and the University of New Mexico or Possibly untapped resource reserves.

The Indigenous people’s suffering has not ended and it won't end until the abolition of this Anti/Indigenous Ideologies. These Ideologies stem from deep historical roots, but they are still being furthered and promoted to this day via symbols like the UNM Seal and the Washington Football team logo. The consequences of these Ideologies are present today we can see examples of Indigenous people exploitation in Standing rock for example. To end Exploitation and racism and create a country where everybody is treated equally we need to first star to remove all symbology that promotes racist Ideology.

Works Cited

1. Little, John, (Filmmaker), et al. More than a Word. Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, [2017], 2017. EBSCOhost, libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=cat05987a&AN=unm.1003045695&site=eds-live&scope=site.

2. Matthew Irwin, “Native American Students Fight to Remove Colonial Imagery from University of New Mexico,” (2016)http://bit.ly/2w56khD

3. Fields, Barbara Jeanne. “Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America.” New Left Review, no. 181, May 1990, pp. 95–118. EBSCOhost, libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ahl&AN=25602279&site=eds-live&scope=site.

4. Jennifer Nez Denetdale. “No Explanation, No Resolution, and No Answers”: Border Town Violence and Navajo Resistance to Settler Colonialism. no. 1, 2016, p. 111. EBSCOhost, libproxy.unm.edu/login?url=https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=edspmu&AN=edspmu.S1533790116100076&site=eds-live&scope=site.

Roediger, D.R. (2017) Class, race, and Marxism. London ; New York : Verso, x, 198 pages

Pictures

1. Reskins logo and name (Multichannel news) https://www.multichannel.com/news/etsy-expunges-redskins-name-logo-site-383690

2. University Seal (KUNM) https://www.kunm.org/post/officials-say-state-must-rebuild-reserves-unm-regents-consider-seal-redesign

3. Red Nation Interpretation of seal (Red Nation) https://therednation.org/2016/04/18/abolish-the-racist-seal/

4. Indigenous Warrior (Pinterest) https://www.pinterest.ru/pin/3096293472005838/

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cloudtales · 3 years

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Georgia: Police storm opposition headquarters to arrest leader Nika Melia

Georgian police this morning stormed the headquarters of the opposition United National Movement (UNM) party in Tbilisi, and arrested the party’s leader Nika Melia and dozens of others. Police reportedly using batons and chemical irritants against UNM supporters who allegedly tried to block police entry into the building. Amnesty International’s Deputy Director for Eastern Europe and Central…

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newsupdatedaily · 3 years

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Georgian police storm opposition party offices, detain its leader | Politics News

Georgian police have stormed the party offices of opposition leader Nika Melia and detained him days after the prime minister resigned after a disagreement over whether to take the prominent politician into custody. Live television footage showed Melia, the leader of the United National Movement (UNM), the country’s main opposition party, being dragged from his party headquarters to be placed in…

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kenyatodaynews · 3 years

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Georgia opposition unites to oust billionaire’s party in poll

Saakashvili’s United National Movement (UNM) and smaller opposition groups have joined forces to challenge the ruling Georgian Dream party chaired by Ivanishvili © AFP / Vano SHLAMOV

Tbilisi, Georgia, Oct 31 – Georgians voted Saturday in tightly contested parliamentary elections pitting an unlikely union of opposition forces against the increasingly unpopular ruling party led by the country’s…

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alexsmitposts · 5 years

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Georgian Rustavi2 TV Journalist Suffers NED-Inspired Diarrhea of the Mouth They will never cease to amaze me, the new depths, even as reported by the BBC … the so-called Georgian media can reach when spurring out carefully scripted hate speech for political ends. Take the case of the Rustavi2 TV station, on a programme aired nationally in Georgia, PS, PostScript, on Sunday July 7th. This highly rated TV station was once hailed as the voice of freedom, moderation and high journalistic standards, at least according to American media sites and the US State Department, but times do change, and so do not-so-hidden-agendas. This time the target was Vladimir Putin and his pedigree, and the attack included all kinds of descriptive expletives for his mother and parents graves. They were so bad even a seedy Georgian taxi driver would blush. There was a counter protest against this behaviour, as likely anticipated by the channel and the scriptwriters of this latest media provocation. But this only convinced Georgians that the Russians were trying to take over the streets, as the allegedly pro-EU United National Movement and its pseudo splinter parties have been doing for the past two weeks. Little Mind Trying to Express Itself Georgi Gabunia, who is claimed to be a journalist, is apparently the mouthpiece here, commenting on this and other events: the anti-government protests (really a failed coup) and the repeated efforts to hold Gay Pride rallies, which are all coming together as a perfect storm. What few are taking notice of is that these actions are not homegrown, and are carefully designed to divert public attention from larger and more pressing issues—like the economy and debt (banking) crisis in Georgia, notwithstanding many social problems. As was to be expected, Russia took exception to the expletive-laden personal attack on Vladimir Putin and the Russian Federation. Russian MPs have already threatened to further cut trade amid a deepening diplomatic row between the two neighbouring countries. Relations having soured last month after a visit by a Russian Orthodox MP to Georgia’s parliament set off angry protests, and this TV stunt would not have been an accident in these circumstances. Many, including myself, considered the reaction as an ambush. Gabunia also referred to Russian people as “slaves” in his rant, and told them to get out of Georgia. This is in the wake of Georgian government statements that Russians can feel safe here and are welcomed as guests. The remarks prompted complaints the next day from the Kremlin and the Russian foreign ministry, which portrayed Gabunia as a radical and uneducated, and said the Georgian government, had not done enough to control anti-Russian sentiment. “We believe they are totally unacceptable and deserve condemnation,” said the Kremlin press spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, when asked about the remarks. They were the “consequences of the reluctance or unpreparedness of the authorities to keep extremists at bay right from the beginning”. Russia’s foreign ministry echoed Peskov’s comments, calling the television monologue a “provocation by radical Georgian forces designed to undermine Russian-Georgian relations”. “The current outrageous incident is a clear example of where rabid anti-Russian sentiment leads,” the Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Georgian president, Salome Zurabishvili, also urged restraint, condemning “hate speech” in a Facebook post. Who stands behind such stunts? Someone paid money and Gabunia said what they wanted him to say. As one teacher at a Georgian university wrote to me, “they must have given him a lot of money to do so. The head of Rustavi 2 put on a special programme a few minutes later, after the verbal abuse, and apologised for his co-worker. But I think this was also a performance.” Her student shared something similar … “The stupid puppet did it for $$$, and now ordinary people will suffer. Even in my job I can’t do anything without confirmation from one of the bosses– it is impossible to act in such a way on a TV channel.” As reported in several media outlets, the Georgian Foreign Ministry also condemned the journalist. “[The comments made on air on “Rustavi 2″] have nothing to do with freedom of speech and [are] a provocation clearly aimed at complicating an already difficult situation in Russian-Georgian relations.” Russians Did It! Some are nevertheless quick to lay the blame at the Russians for all that is transpiring. As one graduate student from Caucasus University, which just happens to be initially funded by the US State Department, and currently serves as command center for the United National Party, UNM shared: “Gabunia’s filthy speech was a planned by Saakashvili and his criminal group here and in Ukraine. I consider them all to be agents of Russia: Gvaramia, Gabunia, Saakashvili, Bokeria, Ugulava… All of them work for the Russians. These pseudo Orthodox groups are also agents of Russian influence too. “What a horrible picture we see in this country! I think the Russian hybrid war specialists will get a high salary for these 2 months. They have done the job perfectly … they have managed to divide Georgian society.” Timing is Paramount Considering the recent efforts to storm and occupy the Georgian Parliament, what is now happening is more than simple a sideshow, a one-off incident. President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili said that such behaviour runs counter to Georgian traditions. Prime Minister of Georgia Mamuka Bakhtadze also criticized the TV presenter. But this is not the first such incident associated with Rustavi2, and on earlier occasions, as reported by Georgian Public TV, the same journalist was caught making anti-Christian remarks. Members of the Georgian March Movement held a protest at the Rustavi 2 building back in March 2018. They slammed the anti-Christian statements made by the same journalist and demanded that Giorgi Gabunia apologise. Then Niels Scott, the UNDP Resident Representative in Georgia, commented: “We may agree or disagree with what the journalist said, but violence is unacceptable”. He expressed the hope that the government will duly respond to the incident and prevent similar ones occurring in the future. The Future is Now! Scott acknowledges that freedom of speech must be protected, and the media should have internal regulation which will determine what is ethical and what is not. Resolution of this issue by violence is absolutely unacceptable But it is obvious that all these events are part of a larger pattern and zero sum game. Some of the journalists at Rustavi2 have been trained under the guise of various American media development projects, especially those funded by NED, and at least one did an internship with the US based National Security News Agency. It is only necessary to connect the dots and all will be clear, especially in the light of US and NATO plans for Ukraine and Iran. There is a familiar footprint – the CIA/NED and American dollars. None of what is happening in Georgia, and especially how it is reported, is about domestic issues and people taking exception to a government that has not delivered on its promises. It is externally funded, and focused on dividing the people and weakening the government in support of outside interests. Hopefully, and the sooner the better, the Georgian people will wake up and take notice of how they are being manipulated. One only needs to look back at who gave us the Rose Revolution in 2003 or Ukraine’s Maiden Square in 2014. It would come as no surprise to Georgian watchers if they see Victoria Nurland passing out cookies and sandwiches in the centre of Tbilisi in the not-too-distant future, and we know what comes next – blood. The problem is that you cannot ask a mob to be clever. But at the same time one needs to keep in mind that a mob is ruled by clever people, who need stupid people to follow and do the wicked things. What does Georgia gain by all of this, protests, Rustavi2 and name calling? It is like 2008, when John McCain and some other people wanted to start a war in Georgia and the region. We already know the players and their backers. My theory is that America needs to destroy all relations between Georgia and Russia so that it can start a war with Iran. Unfortunately Georgia will be destroyed in that process, if not directly then by refugee flows. This is why some powers want to destroy the current government and bring back the crooks from before. Then they can do what they want, and it won’t matter how many Georgians and other innocents die in the process. This is not the end of this never ending circus, and perhaps the round will involve blood, Georgian-on-Georgian, so to raise the stakes. And we will know who really to blame!

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If a crime is committed, seek for someone who benefits from it

Today the "nationals" are trying to destabilize the situation in Georgia. All the years of being in opposition, they were only engaged in trying to undermine the power by all available means and methods in order to regain control of it.

And in a small provincial town, even though it is a regional center, a loud robbery takes place. As in the best action movies, a criminal with a gun comes to the bank, takes hostages, demands $ 500,000 and a guarantee of safe leaving. A similar case took place in Georgia more than a century ago - the famous daring "robbery of the loot" with the participation of the legendary Kamo in Tiflis on Erivan Square, about which books and films were made.

Even the ancient Romans established an immutable truth: If a crime is committed, look for someone who benefits from it. And this hype is beneficial to the political force "United National Movement". It is the "donkey ears" of this party that stick out from under the criminal cap.

Most likely, the calculation was that the Georgian Ministry of Internal Affairs under the premiership of Giorgi Gakharia, suppressing the crime, would react decisively and harshly. Obviously, the storming of the bank building by special forces was expected, as a result of which, most likely, there would be inevitable victims, about which the opposition would raise a wild howl and would use this circumstance as a trump card in the election game.

But the current Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia has again turned out to be at its best and political competitors are no longer pouring water on the mill. The bulk of the hostages were released, the money was paid and the criminal was given a corridor. Today one can talk a lot about the fact that the authorities should not enter into negotiations with terrorists and blackmailers, but in this situation the ruling Georgian Dream party did absolutely right.

Only a very naive person can think that a lone criminal took and decided to rob a bank a few days before the scheduled parliamentary elections in Georgia. The reaction of the opposition spectrum speaks for itself.

The offender, having recognized Irakli Kvaratskhelia, a former official from the "Nationals" party, made him his intermediary in order to convey his demands. For some reason, he contacted the director general of the opposition TV channel Mtavari Arkhi, the notorious Nika Gvaramia, who immediately wrote a sensational statement on the social network Facebook:

“We know everything: who, where, what and when. Today we cooperate with the police all day, they found out about everything from us, they were not aware at all. We know how all this is happening at the moment. Today, at the request of the police, we did not talk about all this publicly. We took the public interest into account. Tomorrow we will definitely publish everything and, I hope, if the Georgian government does not thank us, it will at least apologize. ”

It is completely incomprehensible for the government to apologize for it, but such awareness of the crime raises quite legitimate suspicions.

The authorities have already called the opposition's behavior political looting and absolutely justifiably accused them of trying to score political points before the elections, to fish in troubled waters, which they, most likely, themselves stirred up.

Another confirmation of this is the comment of Mikhail Saakashvili, the former president, and now convicted in absentia and wanted by a criminal:

“This could not have been imagined in Georgia even during Shevardnadze's time, not to mention our time. This is impossible to imagine in any other country, at least in a slightly organized state. The fact is that the Georgian state was practically destroyed, and yesterday we were convinced of this. "

Here you cannot argue with the fugitive ex-president. In his time, this was really impossible, because he and his party had a monopoly on crime. They could not allow some outside bandits to rob other people's wealth, which they legally considered their own. He is also right that the Georgian state has practically been destroyed. Only Mikheil did not say who exactly did it. Such modesty is not typical for him at all. He believes that the police missed the robbery only because they are fully focused on the fight against the United National Movement. It's primitive.

Here the police can be accused of insufficient concentration, because the opposition's plans to destabilize the situation before the elections and its sharp activation, the police had to take into account.

It is not known where the robber is today, but no one should be surprised if half a million dollars ends up in the UNM party treasury, just like Kamo's royal rubles in the Bolshevik party treasury. There is one more completely obvious proof that this robbery was the work of UNM. Crime, weapons and violence are the only recognizable signature of this political force. This time it was not possible with blood, but there is no doubt that there will be many more incidents before the elections: robberies, attacks on party offices and shootings.

Shooting already took place in Zugdidi, in Kobuleti there was an attack on collectors with theft of 75 thousand dollars. It is not for nothing that Saakashvili accuses Bidzina Ivanishvili of all this and demands that the Georgian people immediately replace him with themselves.

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