Aha! I thought they were the first global corporation!

No, under the treaty it doesn’t belong to the U.S. at all, it belongs to the Sioux.

I thought it was the Dutch East India Company! Can you explain what VOC is short for? All I can come up with is volatile organic compound!

Ah. I was imagining that kind of thing once the protest was over. It would, of course, be unwise to do it while there are a bunch of folks camped out near part of the pipeline.

YES! Rich people are sitting on a lot of money right now. I’d like to get my mitts on a bunch of it and donate it to Planned Parenthood.

the argument included a part about how God intended for man to both assert ownership over the land, and furthermore to use it for productive endeavors. Therefore, since the Indians didn’t have the same concept of land ownership, nor that many major permanent settlements and very little agriculture, they didn’t have…

Here’s an easy way to think of it: white people were so eager to screw over tribes that they often screwed them over in ways that contradicted ways other white people screwed over tribes. It makes it hard for white people to decide which screwing over tribes is the legit one - they usually end up just picking the one…

In a universe where treaties was honored it would belong to the Souix Nation, as would most of the best land in the US (to applicable Indian Nations).

Cleared the way how? Bernie got demolished in the primaries- which went strongly for Clinton.

The Sioux never gave up their claim on the land as established by treaty with the U.S. government, even though the government has a long and shitty history of failing to honor the treaties made with tribal nations, hence it is land that remains “unceded” by the Sioux nation.

Hey you know how the democrats could have stopped rush from interfering via the DNC email hacks....by not acting like a bunch of crooks adn by not rigging their primaries.

For all kinds of reasons, of course, probably most of them dumb as hell.

I was very disappointed personally just because all those people staid out there to the early hours of the morning, crying on tv in utter devastation and she couldn’t even come out to thank them. The working class supporters. Instead she gives her speech to her big donors. It is just a perfect display of why she…

Yeah, Kaine was a bad move. A boring, fairly safe choice, who did nothing to win over anyone, and indeed almost failed to deliver his home state (granted maybe without him Clinton would have lost every state in her “firewall”, but a poor showing all around).

Trump picked Pence because he knew that would help him with his base. That was a signal to his base that even if they didn’t like Trump personally that Republicans would have their say in his administration. It was smart politics even though Pence is basically an evil doofus.

Right? The response from the Clinton campaign’s people when Bernie finally dropped out was basically “Good, don’t you see how stupid you were to back him? Now get behind Hillary like you should have done from the start!”, which is really not the way to gain supporter, and even among most Bernie supports who found…

If Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders were on the Dem ticket, we wouldn’t looking at an pumpkin-spice neofascist as the President-elect. We would be looking at 4 to 8 years of progressive leadership.

Hillary Clinton is always too eager to take her base for granted. Instead of building bridges with Bernie supporters she couldn’t wait to insult them by hiring Debbie Wasserman Schultz the day she resigned in disgrace. I know that hurt her. Both in votes and in enthusiasm.

All I can hope is that this spells the quickened doom of neoliberal policymaking in the Democratic party. You want to know what spelled the end of the Dems this election cycle? Being unable to differentiate themselves very well against “traditional” Republicans on economic matters.

The failure of the Clinton campaign to accept any responsibility for screwing this particular pooch is appalling.