u/DifferentBad1770

i ask this because I was told by a deceased friend that if you want to have anyone spend time on or with you do not bore them to shit. but im on the spectrum and kinda have restrictive interests but i keep my friends because i do a good job of being engaged amd actively listening. or thats what i am told?

I ask this because I have a friend who was born in st thomas but he has family who been here since the islands were Danish (so the border crossed him) This is a food for thought question because i know in the states, people will see us carribean rather an american especially when we talk since we don’t “sound the same” but on some real shit, is soca gonna be playing at the cookout? im down to bring some genips and saltfish paté.

im not tryna be part of that tiktok bs but it make a lil sense because we are not first generation immigrants like the other carribean american folk and africans as our families been here longer than most people although puertoricans got citizenship before us.

if we were like that after evolving from homo erectus (somehow), how would human history change especially after the 1500s?

like in some of the movies because id hate to get hit by shards of my own plates?

sounds like a crappy superpower but what if you can use it for self defense or supply a temporary burst of energy⚡️⚡️.

I am not advocating for separtism at all because it will make people attack us. the OGs of the republic of new afrika are dead and that idea never took off. trying to send us to liberia failed. But a nation is defined as a large group of people with a common language, culture, history and territory. they often have a government, but some nations do not. Black America has all of that except a government. because of that reality, I believe we are a schrodinger’s stateless nation like the kurds, sami, and metis? at least those cultures are allowed autonomy like rojava in syria. if we attempted something like that like, it will get shut down somehow as boondocks and grinlocke showed us. we also have a vast collective memory of institutions like a nation.

i will not get into the history because most of us know it already from the elders or quality research.

Update: to an extent, the usvi is the closest entity we have to autonomy in america. but even over there, the culture is different from aa culture.

let’s say you are part of the zanj revolt against the abbasids or a medieval fellah in mamluk era egypt? what would the starting arsenal be? the hussites of czechia were sophisticated because they had backup in the form of mobile firepower and they also had threshals which worked well against armor. what did farmers have access to from the 700s to the mid 1300s and a lil after? i know the minjal sickle resembles the east asian kama but what else would those class of rebels also have? its rarely documents

because somebody has to think of the children even if they are beating each other up in the restroom, behind a store, at a bus stop or even on the bus.

after all, they get stuff done so it is not like that is poor leadership. if that is the template then what if we ran every institution as an authoritarian like many parents, jocks, jrotc cadets, teachers, first responders, retail leadership and etc.

because many world leaders and subordinates dislike people challenging the status quo, even if it will make the country better like abolishing legal genocides or segregation

for example, the uae in sudan but similar stuff happened throughout history

for example, some poor parents are unable to afford to provide for their children. so cps takes them away and gives them to a foster family but the government pays them money to take care of someone else’s kids! so unless the bio parents were too incapacitated to do their jobs, why do the govt subsidize the bio family so the youth would not be forced to imprint on strangers that might hate them or use them as a “paycheck”?

i been hammered by right wingnuts and one of them told me that god laws says follow man laws until they conflict with gods law, romans 13-1. is there an equivalent in the qur’an? or religion aside, how do you make that call because hardliners everywhere would rationalize bulldozing a lgbt friendly house of worship (church, synagogue or masjid) but in most places where lgbt is tolerated, the law will arrest and charge you with vandalism or similar offenses because all both abrahamic texts say lgbt will go to the flames.

i know i need to read but there is a reason reading a bunch of relevant textbooks or manuals without going to school will not allow you to be recognized as a qualified individual for whatever you do?