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More than 50% of Indigenous communities in reserve areas in Canada are at high risk of pipeline spills. When there is a spill, reserves are disproportionately impacted.

The National Energy Board and Supreme Court of Canada has a history of declaring the "public interest and economic interests outweigh Indigenous and treaty rights." Basically, Indigenous peoples don't count enough as "public" to matter.

Pipelines are built without proper consent from the Indigenous Nations they choose to occupy. Keep in mind I say choose, because this is the case even when alternative pipeline routes are suggested that could avoid reserve land. This is a direct, constant, and often violent threat to Indigenous sovereignty.

The MMIW crisis is funded by the oil industry through the creation of worker's "man camps" near reserve land. These "man camps" are nothing but pits of sexual violence and human trafficking of Indigenous women and girls. I am not exaggerating; this is well studied and well documented.

Resources & Sources:

To become an ‘energy superpower’, Canada wants to bulldoze Indigenous rights (START HERE!)

Indigenous Resistance to Alberta Oil and Gas Development Report

When the environment is destroyed, you're destroyed: Achieving Indigenous led pipeline justice

First Nations Consent Ignored as Canadians Asked to Subsidize LNG Expansion

Oil pipelines and food sovereignty: threat to health equity for Indigenous communities

Is Violence against Indigenous Women in “Canada’s interest”? Liquified Natural Gas in B.C., Sexual Violence & Narratives of Terra Nullius

The colonial playbook never ended, Canada’s pipeline deal proves it

But the demographic most likely to be a domestic terrorist, the mass shooters, the ones that find diverse places and murder people... Are white men. When I go to the store, to church, to work, to the movies, to school, the odds that the person who will walk in and decide to Let Fly is a white man! That's something we have to keep in our minds every day!

When white ppl go out in public theyre not looking for the person who's poses the most danger to them, they're looking for a person who they can endanger with little to no consequences. Im thinking of all those "karen" videos where a white person is approaching, following, or even explicitly chasing a black person while on the phone with the police making up some story abt how theyre being attacked by a big scary black person. So that when the police get there they see a anxious and/or aggravated black person who they can victim blame for any violence that follows.

White ppl in these situations know that they are not in any physical danger. Which is why they feel so comfortable getting in Black ppls faces, knocking on car windows, or even physically harassing ppl. I've been hear a lot of ppl encourage Black women especially to arm themselves bcuz of the current political climate. But on top of the fact that owning a gun poses a danger to you more than anyone else, white ppl who want to see you be hurt know that the US Justice system is baised in their favor. They know that a Black person is running the risk of being killed or imprisoned simply for having gun (or even just a white person thinking they have a gun). Im still thinking about Rihanna Kelver who had literally been knocked to the ground and was on her back with 3 men standing over her when she pulled out her gun. She didn't even fire it, in fact none of her assailants even pressed charges and she's still facing up to 15 years for simply taking it out of her purse. Even though Wyoming, where this happened, is a stand your ground and open carry state but ofc that means nothing when your Black. Ive just been hearing a lot of ppl talk like a gun guarantees your safety when it actually just gives you a new set of problems.

White American dont "love" an underdog, they love to be the underdog or at least to be seen as one. Which is why they can believe theyre the supreme master race while still constantly positioning themselves as the victim.

I'm at the point where I refuse to believe that white ppl are unaware of the threat they pose or that theyre genuinely "scared" of Black ppl. Their ignorance and obliviousness is strategic if not completely fabricated.

Because the moths themselves don’t eat and only live long enough to mate and then starve to death, the entire culture is made up of children and adolescents. The older children raise the younger ones, with families being made up of hatchmates from different years.

Because molts and eventual transformation into a short lived adult happen on a set schedule, families have a cycle— when your oldest set of siblings cocoon to become adults, you wait at the mating grounds and try to adopt their newborns after they pass. If that fails, you take any ‘orphans’ you can find.

Because death and birth are nearly simultaneous, they have a religion based around reincarnation, and infants with markings similar to a parent are often given their name. Claiming the offspring of a beloved family member is vitally important, because you want to be able to protect their soul and keep them close.

Because it’s hard to track the offspring of your male family members, there are sometimes major fights when a family sees an infant with familiar markings in another family’s clutch.

They don't just have a brain, but are composed of three separate intelligences; the crown, the reach, and the guise.

The crown is the emotional, conscious mind. It has no concept of how to achieve tasks or make change on the world, but it feels and wants.

The reach is literally the tentacles of the octopus, which contain neurons. Their arms themselves perform all the math and enact change on the world to the best of their ability, directed by the crown. The crown has no knowledge of what the reach is thinking. The crown has emotions and desires, and their arms just do their best to solve equations and puzzles and hunt to fulfill those desires.

The guise is the camouflage skin of the octopus, which unconsciously expresses the emotions and desires of the crown. All communication happens guise to guise, pure emotion, while their reaches communicate in other ways, pure logistics.

you have to be kinder to people who are slow processors.

you have to be kinder to people who don't understand your jokes.

you have to be kinder to people who forget important dates.

you have to be kinder to people with cognitive decline.

you have to be kinder to people who were always this way, too.