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Meanwhile, dozens were injured by Iranian strikes in Israel, as Tehran targeted a nuclear site.

Donald Trump threatened Iran in a Truth Social post Saturday evening, warning that the U.S. would target the nation’s power plants if the Strait of Hormuz remained closed.

“If Iran doesn’t FULLY OPEN, WITHOUT THREAT, the Strait of Hormuz, within 48 HOURS from this exact point in time, the United States of America will hit and obliterate their various POWER PLANTS, STARTING WITH THE BIGGEST ONE FIRST!” Trump wrote in the post.

Approximately 20% of the world’s oil passes through the the Strait of Hormuz, a critical trade route. Iranian attacks on ships in the area have seen the area essentially close to maritime traffic, while oil prices have soared globally.

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[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 34 points 1 day ago (2 children)

As a Native American who doesn’t even have a voting member of congress please go fuck yourself. White people are doing this and white people didn’t come from America.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wait, Indigenous people in the US cant vote for a senator?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 40 points 1 day ago (2 children)

We were promised our own representatives that we still don’t have. As you may be able to imagine, the white people who are elected state wide don’t always have the best interests of Native peoples in mind.

[–] PlaidBaron@lemmy.world 20 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Yeah Im Canadian and Indigenous rights are not respected here either but fuck, at least they can vote.

[–] rljkeimig@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Native Americans can vote in state and national elections and are supposed to be represented in Congress by the senators and representative of the state they live in, but they are not represented directly by a native with equal standing and their land and rights are usually not a priority for their legislators or states they live in.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Natives can vote in the US. The republicans have tried to make it harder because they vote against them.

[–] harrys_balzac@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Don't forget that ICE is kidnapping and trying to deport Native Americans.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

The mask is off, they aren't pretending. We shouldn't either. We need to respond.

The natives are especially valuable for environmental issues, as their treaties dicatate rights, and they are on the right side of all such issues. But the fed courts are going to hell so that is ending.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

No shit, in case you haven't noticed, the "white" people elected don't have the best interests of white people in mind either. You are barking up the wrong tree, this is a class war, and we are losing.

[–] Randomgal@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Hard to win if you don't do anything other than SLAMMING them.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Whatcha mean? This makes no sense to me. Or I suspect to anyone with sense unless I misunderstand your seeming point.

[–] luciferofastora@feddit.org 1 points 3 hours ago

It refers to the news headlines exaggerating any "Person said is bad" into "Person SLAMMED ".

The point of that message is that "SLAMMING" (i.e. talking) is all they do, instead of actually implementing or at least pushing for progressive policies in their own spheres of influence.

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Neither do Puerto Ricans, Guamanians, American Samoans, or Virgin Islanders. Congressional representation is a bad joke, and the house hasn't expanded seats since 1910 which greatly privileges representation for smaller population states. Gerrymandering is just a splash in the pot compared to how rigged they have the legislature.

[–] GraniteM@lemmy.world 6 points 1 day ago

The Reapportionment Act of 1929 was a bullet to the head for representational democracy in the United States. It just took nearly a hundred years for us to realize how fatal the wound was.

[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You do realize like half of white people are on your side?

[–] atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago

My comment was directed specifically at the person I was responding to. Obviously being an ally is a choice not helped or hindered by one’s own ethnicity, creed, religion, sexuality, etc.