Garrison

So yeah.

Yeah, Columbus, real piece of shit.

Worst Christopher.

Bad guy, bad name.

Things are going to continue to go badly.

And yeah, that was another thing that I wanted to talk about, which is federal Indian policy.

So we're not going to be able to go into an enormous amount of depth in it, but I think it's important that people...

Yeah.

And I think we can, yeah, we can get to what happens next then, because yeah, yeah, you, you have, you have this elaborate legal framework that lets you steal people's land and murder them and then control it.

And then the outgrowth of that is like,

this sort of weird event where the colonies go into rebellion and suddenly, yeah, there's not a colony.

They're not colonies anymore.

They just are the state.

This is all around the same time as the Indian Act in Canada as well, which did a very similar thing, especially starting in the 20th century as well with the expansion of the assimilation programs.

This is this thing where the federal government can tell the Supreme Court to fuck off, and there's nothing the Supreme Court could do about it.

And if you look at what they did it to do, the thing they did it to do was genocide.

It's the ability to break your own rules in order to sort of maintain the system.

Right.

Do we want to talk about a lot in the same period?

And it's just, like, it just doesn't work because economically it doesn't make any sense.