Post AlmQKaw5MEUXIE8aO0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
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 (DIR) Post #AlmQKZAtuB9bpb3OCW by Myerman@toot.bldrweb.org
       2024-09-08T00:44:48Z
       
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       Considering that the colonists had only read about Greek democracy but had never seen a council fire where people talked shit out and OMG THE CHIEFS WERE ELECTED BY WOMEN you’re goddamned right democracy is indigenous. RE: https://toot.bldrweb.org/@Myerman/113098890753422607
       
 (DIR) Post #AlmQKa2Qh9yKVc68dU by benroyce@mastodon.social
       2024-09-08T01:19:28Z
       
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       @Myerman for anyone who doesn't know: the structure of the us govt, compromises and balance of powers, was inspired by the haudenosaunee (iroquois) govt structureas affirmed by the foundersif you don't believe me:the us congress itself said so https://www.congress.gov/bill/100th-congress/house-concurrent-resolution/331"H.Con.Res.331 - A concurrent resolution to acknowledge the contribution of the Iroquois Confederacy of Nations to the development of the United States Constitution" more reading:https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2023/09/the-haudenosaunee-confederacy-and-the-constitution/
       
 (DIR) Post #AlmQKaw5MEUXIE8aO0 by tomjennings@tldr.nettime.org
       2024-09-08T02:52:34Z
       
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       @benroyce I knew almost nothing of this until I read David graeber and David wengrows' DAWN OF EVERYTHING. @Myerman @benroyce