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Leonard Peltier, born on this day in 1944, is an indigenous rights activist of Lakota descent who has been imprisoned by the U.S. since 1977, convicted of first-degree murder following the killing of two FBI agents.

After being extradited from Canada through a false witness statement, Peltier was convicted in a controversial 1977 trial and sentenced to two consecutive terms of life imprisonment for the murder of two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents in a shooting on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota.

As detailed by "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse", Peltier's trials and conviction are considered highly controversial, and groups such as Amnesty International have raised concerns about their fairness.

On January 18th, 2017, the Office of the Pardon Attorney announced that President Barack Obama had denied Peltier's application for clemency.

"You must understand...I am ordinary. Painfully ordinary. This isn't modesty. This is fact. Maybe you're ordinary, too. If so, I honor your ordinariness, your humanness, your spirituality. I hope you will honor mine. That ordinariness is our bond, you and I. We are ordinary. We are human. The Creator made us this way. Imperfect. Inadequate. Ordinary."

  • Leonard Peltier

An Interview with Leonard Peltier

Nick Estes: Leonard Peltier’s Continued Imprisonment Is an “Open Wound for Indian Country”

Let Leonard Peltier Go Free

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[–] aen@hexbear.net 32 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 31 points 2 years ago (5 children)

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

First.

God I feel awful. I can't even explain what I'm feeling. It's not pain, it's not sadness. It's just... too much something. Idk what to call it it's so weir.d

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[–] beautiful_boater@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago

Leonard Peltier did nothing wrong (he was framed and the FBI was caught fabricating evidence several times). But even if he had killed FBI agents, that would have only made him cooler.

[–] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (4 children)

I will delete my account around this week. While I had the best time on here with this account so far, I am beginning to feel the serotonin kick turn into addiction. I also don't wanna become a famous poster, for a host of reasons. I will return eventually, but it's best to end this run and say goodbye for now.

[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

I loved u bye vomit sounds

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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Found some quotes from Jeremiah Wright in 2008 when he came under fire for his God Damn America sermon:

"They are unfair accusations taken from sound bites and that which is looped over and over on certain channels," Wright said. "I served six years in the military. Does that make me patriotic? How many years did Cheney serve?"

"[Barack] had to distance himself because he's a politician," he said. "He said I didn't offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon."

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[–] ilyenkov@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

The sermon was actually sick, from what I remember.

It was incredible. He spoke pretty extensively about how Americans have coopted the message of the Bible and claimed to speak on God’s behalf, all while enslaving and murdering people and stoking global war.

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[–] JamesConeZone@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago (1 children)
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[–] thelastaxolotl@hexbear.net 25 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

First

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[–] Mokey@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (4 children)

Im with my family because my grandma died and I just feel entirely alone on this planet. My dads a racist trump guy slob. My sister is highly neurotic, has zero self control and is always trying to pick fights and be ms know it all. My mom has mental issues and is way overmedicated. I cant find love here, i want to just abandon it all. I hate that I went to college and I saw how weird and fucked up my family is.

I feel like my escape (music) is not really a escape but just a reminder that I am an idiot, born to idiots and my position in life is to be white trash. I still want to keep going though, I just wish there were more people supporting me. My partner is the only good figure in my life and that scares me.

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[–] kristina@hexbear.net 23 points 2 years ago (6 children)

One of my friends is starting to talk like a redditor IRL deeper-sadness

[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Not even halfway through Blowback and I'm more convinced than ever that "America bad" is more valid that most ideologies

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[–] Zrc@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

wombat wasn't kidding, it IS september 12. wtf

[–] President_Obama@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

I like upvoting the comments that people deleted to make them think it was seen by others, hoping that it was something they were embarrassed by

[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago

Using mid to compliment women because the average woman is beautiful.

[–] bigboopballs@hexbear.net 21 points 2 years ago

fuck landlords
fuck cars

[–] wombat@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago

it is september 12 and stalin saved the world from fascism

[–] forcequit@hexbear.net 20 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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[–] SeventyTwoTrillion@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

snrrrk mimimi

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[–] Parsani@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Listening to a podcast on Byung-Chul Han about narcissism and neoliberalism, a book which contains a massive critique on contemporary forms of therapy and self help, and it breaks out into an ad for digital app based therapy. Lol lmao

zizek-preference

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[–] Harajukum@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (5 children)

career cross pollination (like Stefen Hillenburg being a marine biologist, with little or no experience with animation, made SpongeBob ) was an underrated thing the boomers and gen X'ers took for granted. >:(

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[–] WittyProfileName2@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

Ayy comrades.

Guess who's starting their voice training next week.

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[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Apparently I received unwise advice from my ear doctors about using pressure equalization to hear better and long story short, my left ear has too much air in it? And that has somehow detached my ear drum from the hearing bone prosthesis its supposed to be attached to and thats why my hearing is inexplicably fucked up for no apparent reason.

The letter telling me this made sure to describe it as "very unusual" and I cant even find any info online about this cause it doesnt seem like this should ever be a concern unless you are a diver.

[–] Huldra@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago

This is a looney tunes ass fucking health problem I swear to god like their literal explanation is that I blew too much air into my head and now my ear drum is like a balloon, this is so stupid do I need to be watching out for airborne anvils and grand pianos now?

[–] Frank@hexbear.net 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Fuckers. "America doesn't hvae political prisoners, that's only bad countries".

: p

I've been unintentionally substituting lots of words lately. homophones, yeah, but also words that just sounds similar. I typed "colors" instead of countries. I'm worried it means something neurological. Or maybe I'm just getting old.

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[–] stigsbandit34z@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

sigh

Why must people on LinkedIn be like this. A guy was just laid off because he took “too long of a medical leave” and of course he’s thanking the company.

Holy shit man, decorum and its consequences have utterly rotted the average worker’s brain. And I’m the radical one for wanting to be treated like a human and not a profit pawn.

Incredibly depressing stuff

[–] Judge_Jury@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

Hopefully it's insincere. I look at posting on Linkedin as being sort of like getting pulled over. My ego's gotta take a back seat while I do my best to manipulate swine

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (3 children)

come here

i have a secret to tell you

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[–] Rojo27@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago

New mega energyspongebob-i-fucking-love

[–] Moss@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Anxiety is so stupid I hate it who's idea was this

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[–] GaveUp@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Tfw I like pretending to take conspiracy theories seriously as a form of escapism like how people treat astrology and crystals but now everybody thinks I'm a 9/11 nutter

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[–] DoiDoi@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Stores are already full of christmas shit. People are talking about an election in November of 2024. We need to start respecting the calendar again this shit is out of control.

[–] Goblinmancer@hexbear.net 17 points 2 years ago

15 minute walkable cities STARFIELD IS WOKE

[–] GVAGUY3@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

King Gizzard is doing a marathon show in my city! So hyped.

[–] EmotionalSupportLancet@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

watching an MRE documentary. It would honestly work as radicalizing propaganda. The way everything is phrased they might as well call it "troop slop". They know its all about doing the bare minimum to meet the caloric needs of a forced to fight by poverty less than what they see as a fellow human. disgusting.

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[–] muirc@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Re: Peltier, I highly recommend "In the Spirit of Crazy Horse" to anyone who has not read it. One of my favorite books ever.

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[–] Stoatmilk@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If I had to make up a lie about all the monkeys I killed with my research for a fake sci-fi product, I would not say that they were really sick monkeys. I would probably go with claiming they were extremely racist or sexist, or maybe monkey landlords.

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[–] hexaflexagonbear@hexbear.net 16 points 2 years ago

second-plane a second cat has hit the twine towers

[–] vomit_sounds@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I am experiencing improved short term memory to a degree that is surprising me. Small things like clearly remembering what I did yesterday, seeing a five digit code for a second and being able to reproduce it. Time perception has also changed, The last three years were more or less a constant haze. Now moments feel "fuller", less distant and foggy, but also not like "lost time".

Nothing in my habits changed that much except maybe allowing for more "small luxuries" and not just eating bread, water and a vegan spread. I did significiantly improve my abilities in a language, that is the biggest difference, but only noticed it now, after the biggest period of learning has been over for some months

So while I am happy, I am confused about why this happened.

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[–] MCU_H8ER2@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

My lib friend told me Biden has done 'a lot better than expected'. 🤔

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[–] heartheartbreak@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago (4 children)

What the fuck the Spotify app now has gigantic videos being forced onto ur screen and huge tiktok sections ?? Why is everything so fucking ugly now angery

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[–] Parzivus@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago

They said they wouldn't give us homework for this workshop I'm doing, then they did anyway. Said "fuck it I'm not doing this," show up the next day, nobody else did it either. Bluff called comfy-cool

[–] HarryLime@hexbear.net 15 points 2 years ago
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