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[–] Deceptichum@quokk.au 4 points 13 hours ago (2 children)

Tell them to give the land back and they lose their shit.

[–] Tiresia@slrpnk.net 4 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

I don't understand what "give the land back" means. Would you mind explaining it?

There are a lot of poor, oppressed people who live on land their ancestors didn't own. In the US, all Black people and most native Americans don't live within 1000 km of where their ancestors lived 600 years ago. So when land is given back, what happens to the people that currently reside there? Do natives become landlords? Is there ethnic cleansing? Or is it only land where people don't reside? Also, many native cultures didn't even have land ownership, so how do you give land back without forcing them into a western mould?

[–] Bigfishbest@lemmy.world 0 points 1 hour ago

Yeah forget about sending those squatters back to Europe. We don't fucking want them.

[–] ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.works 4 points 11 hours ago

That's kind of why I like the casino model. Local tribes put here have been buying their land back bit by bit and the casino goers gladly shovel money at them.

I just wish we could rope corporate entities into it. Imagine if casino losses could be a corporate tax writeoff. C-suites would be stumbling onto the floor with the company cards. The overnight wealth distribution would be staggering.