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Cake day: June 8th, 2023

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  • One of the lesser-known scandalous from American history (there’s many to choose from) is John Muir’s campaigning for the National Park Service, which is often celebrated as a great victory of environmentalism. What they don’t tell you is that Muir saw the indigenous people of California and the Pacific Northwest as ‘savages’. The NPS meant that thousands of people lost their lands, lands which they had tended for centuries, but which appeared to White observers as merely ‘virgin forest’.










  • This is a common misconception, but fully understandable one. If you look into political theory, one of the first things you discover is that all governments – whether they call themselves “democratic” or not – are, before anything else, at war with the people they claim to represent.

    The “people” – not rival foreign states – are the first group against which a state of at war with, whether the state in question is a monarchy, a republic, a dictatorship, a plutocracy or something else.