Basman

I think they are just scared of success. It is more difficult to live with passion than just follow the herd for your survival. You have to stand for something and put yourself on the line spiritually and financially.

Stage purple peoples are basically defenseless at the scale of nationhood. Their survival depends on a nations good will or just being too out of the way to care about. Uncontrolled pathogens killed 80-90% of them actually. Most Natives died before ever seeing any European settlers. They really didn't stand a chance. And reservations are defeat on a demographic scale if you don't control your own borders. They are basically large open air prisons, not unlike Gaza. They depended on government rations to survive and couldn't leave (also not unlike Gaza). It wasn't until American society liberalized more that their conditions improved as a captive people. In parallel, what it would take for Palestinians to be saved long-term is for Israel to grow a conscious. And in contrast with Native Americans, Palestinians do terrorism, which makes it impossible to relent. A defeated people cannot survive on its own merits, but by the grace of its enemies. Thank though, ChatGPT.

You don't get it, Leo. The potted plants, dream catchers and Buddha statue(s) is non-negotiable.

No buddha statue 0/10

That's only once a month. Manageable.

I'm going to manifest with my mind a big tiddy goth catgirl with a temper . Wish me luck.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cities_by_homicide_rate Mexico takes the cake.

Traumatizing

No, they got crushed. They got quarrelled in reserves in forbidden from leaving for a long time. They are lucky that they didn't get eradicated entirely like countless other peoples have who lost an existential war. Its only because America is a liberal society that Natives could advocate for any rights at all. It took many years of avtivism and protest at that. Violence hasn't been an option since they lost the Frontier war utterly. Your morals are making you blind to the reality of the situation.

When an expansionist people starts taking your land its a matter of war and power. You either drive out the invaders completely or negotiate new borders, and failing that you get squashed. The Natives didn't have the power to do either and therefor got squashed. Its not a matter of morals but survival. Settlers weren't going to stop for anything but raw power. They needed and wanted that land. They where people who needed green pastures to survive. That's the general history of many countries. Even Greenland, one of the most remote countries in the world, has a history of deposing a prior people. And the Natives weren't a united people any more than Europe was at the time. Many allied with settlers to defeat a rival tribal. The same happend when the Spanish started warring with the Aztecs. Imagine if aliens came to destroy Russia. Ukraine and many other East-European nations would ally with them in a heart beat. The Natives would have to conquer and unite themselves first if they where to have any hope of resisting encroachment. I didn't call Native Americans a death cult. It's exactly because they are not that they stopped fighting. If they really wanted to they could become terrorists.

Most of human history btw. Genocide is the norm, not the exception when you lose an existential war. The notion of Native Americans as halpless victims is a political narrative central to Native American activism. And activism because war is untenable for them. Its their only viable option. They fought till they physically no longer could (plus many Americans feel bad for them). They aren't a death cult like many Palestinians are. It's not incorrect that they are victims, but moreso in the sense of being victims of losing a war. Settlers didn't have the option of leaving and Native Americans weren't going to give up their territory. It was a conflict that could only be solved through war and genocide and the Natives simply lost. Its ugly, but that's human history in just about every country in the world.

If America became authoritarian, most people's lives would probably not change significantly. You would live normally and probably actually think less about politics due to there being less news. Just can't criticize the government too much. I don't think such a situation would inspire many to rebel and "take up arms" in my opinion.

I don't think Americans would be all that unified against an authoritarian regime if it came to power if many of them percieve it as more legimitimate and American than what we have now. Or just don't care. You have already people who are in support of ICE rounding up illegals and shooting lib protesters. Purging them in camps would be like setting things straight. Plus, an authoriarian regime would clamp down on the press because its better then that people don't think about politics. You might not even know about any purges going on. I think a civil war would be fought by a minority against the rest of the country + the military. But I could be wrong.

The American fantasy of needing to combat an authoritarian takeover is funny because a lot of Americans would probably support it and see it as more legitimate than the current order if it where to happen. Trump's authoritarian and a sizable portion of Americans support Trump. People are at an all time distrust of the government. Why would they fight and die for it?

You will just import guns if your at that point of civil unrest like every other civil war across the world has. Even as is, rebels would still want to import bombs, drones, machine guns, ammo, etc. The Mexican cartel will run a gambit. Point is, I think the militia justification is an outdated idea. Preparing for civil war is schizo.