• atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works
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    2 days ago

    As a Native American I have been asked more than once if I live in a teepee by other Americans. I often respond that I do but it has doors and windows and running water and we call it a house.

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      16 hours ago

      i am Appalachian. when i moved to DC for work people asked in full earnesty if i had to buy shoes before taking the train

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      1 day ago

      Holy shit the low levels of both education and curiosity in the USA are embarrassing.

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      Tipis are an extremely smart and comfortable way of living tho, in my opinion. I’d prefer it to owning a house if there was a way to legally do that. Unfortunately some guys came along and stole all the land, so now I have to pay them most of my income I made from working the industries that they built and own in order to survive in a bleak existence where seeing pigeons and rats counts for the majority of my daily interaction with nature.

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        17 hours ago

        You’d prefer living in a tent over a climate controlled space with running water and sewer?