AnarkDL

There are people who still claim that Max and Chloe could be platonic in the og game.. that there was a "friendship route".. yeah, I don't believe it. Like did you not see all the constant touching, flirting, holding hands, hugging, Chloe daring Max to kiss her, the looks they give each other, outright declarations of love and Max's "I'm very much in love with Chloe"journal pages??

You know maybe we don’t talk about the fact that Chloe did get sexually assaulted enough.

The burgeoning of the corporation brought about a new era of attacks on Indigenous governments, lands, and resources. After the military power and resistance of Indigenous nations and communities were stifled by the growing US military machine following the Civil War, compliance on the part of Indigenous leaders became necessary for survival. Miner argues that "industrial civilization" diminishes the relevance of persons or communities in its way and also notes that industrial civilization is not exactly the same as "industrialization," that it is something quite different and more pervasive. Industrial civilization justified exploitation and destruction of whole societies and expansion without regard for the sovereignty of peoples; it promoted individualism, competition, and selfishness as righteous character traits. The means by which the US government assured corporate freedom to intrude in Indigenous territories was federal trusteeship, the very instrument that was mandated to protect them.

“Where collective agency is desperately called for, government is an inept tool, if not a disaster.”