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be advised, newsheads, this story is from a year and a half ago and does not pertain directly to ongoing protests

i appreciate informative post titles like this

yeah, i'll try to make an effort post soon. i'm not an expert, but it's something i've been trying to correct my own understanding of, which is that "cargo cults" were generally revitalization movements promising to restore social relationships that were being destroyed through the process of colonialism. i think many westerners, myself included, have a notion that "cargo cults" originated from air drops during world war 2, and that simply isn't true. such movements go back to the late 19th century and organized around charismatic indigenous leaders promising an alternative to the european colonialism being imposed upon them.

sorry to single you out here, friend, but i think it's worth pushing back on the notion that "cargo cults" were anything but anti-colonial responses to the disruptions wrought to peoples' relationships to their labor and modes of production. in some sense that's also what's happening now, but you seem to be buying into the notion that cargo cults were based primarily on superstition and gullibility, when they were in many ways a rational social response to their own subjugation and displacement.

please repost to our c/history comm: https://hexbear.net/c/history

ah, i see it's cross-posted to c/videos. please consider cross-posting to c/history. this isn't really news.

Sometime in 2022, Pastor “Eli” Regalado told his congregation at Victorious Grace Church that God told him and his wife to create a cryptocurrency called INDXcoin and sell it to their church. More than 300 people bought in for a total of around $3.2 million according to the Colorado Department of Regulatory Agencies.

https://medium.com/bouncin-and-behavin-blogs/god-told-us-to-create-a-cryptocurrency-so-we-could-rip-you-off-384331491a15

a dobolt would need to have a doscrew tip and dowrench head and be long enough to fit through the two dobjects that you're affixing dogether

yeah anything more than this starts to feel contrived

back in 2013 when jon stewart called him "fuckface von clownstick" i thought trump was done for sure! no way he'd wriggle his way out of that one...

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Backrooms

i thought the whole point of putting shit like this in texas was to avoid zoning laws

I'm probably conflating it with another event from around then if anyone knows anything that would fit?

yeah, you're thinking of this:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killings_of_Aaron_Danielson_and_Michael_Reinoehl

On August 29, 2020, Aaron Danielson, an American supporter of the far-right group Patriot Prayer,[1][2] was shot and killed, allegedly by a far-left activist, after participating in a caravan which drove through Portland, Oregon, displaying banners and signs supporting President Donald Trump,[3] and clashing with participants in the local George Floyd protests.[3][4]

On September 3, 2020, Danielson's suspected killer, Michael Reinoehl, an American anti-fascist[3][5] activist[6][7] was shot and killed by a federally led fugitive task force near Lacey, Washington.[8][9]

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