🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@realcaseyrollins

Do we continue to steal land from them during times of peace? Are the Natives alive today, any of them, people who were originally here before the war?

Claiming this is comparable is absurd on a few accounts.. if, for example, we did what israel did and **constantly** violated their territory and stole more land from them during times of peace when they arent being aggressive, then wouldnt they be justified in attacking?

How do you feel it is comparable looking at a country that is actively stealing land during times of peace from the weaker one, and thent he weaker one retaliates as if it were some unprovoked attack.

Can your really not see the stark difference between these two scenarios?

@freemo @freemo how would you feel if Native Americans committed terrorist attacks against the #USA because they were defeated using, in part, biological warfare?

Also, are you claiming that Arab heritage in the region of #Palestine goes back farther than Jewish heritage in the same region?

@realcaseyrollins

As for what im claiming... quite simply, the people there were living on the land their whole lives, their father was, his father, back a thousand generations in many cases (which they quite proudly put on their walls in most households).

The jews on the other hand all but a very very small minority can even show that they have heritage to the land at all. The only thing they have to show for it is some religious book that happens to have some people in it that practice the same religion as them. How many jews can even prove that all or most of their ancestors every lived in Israel at all, how any of them can trace even a single path of lineage back to Israel 2000 years ago, the answer is, almost none of them. Your ancestors converting to Jeudaism 500 years ago long after they had lost the land in no way qualifies you as having history in the land, and yet, the requirements for Israel citizenship due to the right of return doesnt need even CLOSE to that level of proof. You just need to practice the religiona nd be born of people who practiced it, thats it...

Again, not even remotely comparable.

@realcaseyrollins

Also another important point your comparison complete ignores.. 100% of native Americans are allowed defacto citizenship, and completely sovereignty over their own land. They do not just have the privilege of their own sovereign territory but the freedom of citizenship and free and equal access to the whole country.

That means they have **more** rights than an american citizen, because we recognize the wrong we did, so we allowed a one-state solution, even more than a one-state solution, a one-state solution where native Americans have **more** rights than us.

That is in stark contrast to how the Palestinians are treated, denied a one state solution at all, caged behind walls, not permitted to even leave their own country, not given equal rights in Israel, AND where even during ease fires and peace Israel still freely takes their land and completely disregards what little sovereignty they are given over their own land.

Again these two are not even remotely the same.;

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@freemo

1 Hmm... Wasn't as immediately obvious or as straight-forward as I thought.

And like you said people many have got the wrong idea and left
- so this is a game-changer for me... and may have been for others if they knew more real testing and your few stats mentioned approximately.

Good it was tested somewhat by you which I trust... and perhaps people have to accept pot of gold doesn't exist anywhere unless we create a hive of activity.

2 About "mainstream" the word ...

Mainstream (or one type of meaning of it) could be considered what's listed on https://joinmastodon.org -

...inferring (correctly in some way and not) that what people see there are the main servers and perhaps user numbers signing up _comes from_ that "main" supported list... (I've seen a few list but not the official or recommended https://joinmastodon.org - which I think would be great to have QOTO on as before to represent (that's how I found QOTO and like it's features)...

though QOTO still exists without
- not sure if it's clear to others.

3 I wonder how else people would find QOTO unless heard / referred / recommended or saw QOTO users boosted from other users to switch...

4 I'm adding #QOTO as hashtag here as it's really good to hear this anyway-

but this info could go in one FAQ post about blocking (without the gargron politics) or even something regular to counter this behaviour of leaving like regular reminder / FYI of things covered before saying how #blocking by others is actually not that big of a deal and how you've tested it etc.

Educate people as your work and rest happens itself (again I see this as the job of any server and to KEEP DOING as any instance's program). Going to due on my sword on that

If you copied and pasted it to your own pages you could be one link around where you talk about blocking there as related... instead of just Nazi's or Gargron stuff - just deflect / show it actually doesn't matter even if slightly would be slightly more signups on official website.

Maybe hashtag like #QOTOBlocking (guess this is there now) could prep and collect it and we can always revise the hashtag or your website.

I'm was more torn about this before you said that. I can also have more accounts too and link them... but your info was crucial in my perspective realising "all ways a futile unless you make it yourself since mostly #p2p ironically doesn't exist manually here or organised" and spreading *this* to others if ever mentioned about QOTO or spreading better ways between people (dare I say a movement!).

Without these kinds of talking about it, investing in / by users, people would hardly know and therefore get wrong ideas and be left to themselves (quite normal) which is costly to you and the aims of QOTO (which I would change it to something more ACTIVE and *attacking* in education) -

Now I'm the one more pestering / attacking you and others but as a reflection of existing things not always existing or others not doing much work here (1 way posting about tech) and in my realm the cross-pollinated reasons, sharing dreams and factors would be stronger and said in passing with FOSS and STEM and reasons like you've mentioned come out sooner.

Again peer to peer conversation needed in order to _build_ (your existing efforts with me AND somehow seeding or attaching more people to each other as we go like a mesh)

It would be called "retainment" also if I was your communications / HR officer or other some such title

3 For testing followers I would say comparing your account here to a normal account elsewhere might have some main factors that are not proportional like:

a) declaring your creator of QOTO instead of using random / less anonym name helps get followers... more anonymity les follower
(it's chicken and egg sometimes for usefulness and future privacy but for people like you name is everything and worth trust even though any doctors could be bad people - but I accept names and titles help others in their head and accept others without these more state / old ways of thinking

FreeSchool for example as a name I know is + / - but my work should work more than anything / people need to start to trust that more than state with time even though I could fake a name...

b) more developed profile - more history and posts might help people follow...

but great to know you tested it.

4 I still would like to use your own position in "power" or status to take risks on other users and QOTO behalf if not assign me someone else (like to trust me while not trusting me completely) and mutually get on with QOTO stronger / stretch arms and roots out...

5 But for now I wait and see if you have any points from the previous 10 in the post before (of which most are skippable or first lines indicate the contents of that point)

Good stuff again. Hope others see it

6 People reading this might realise:

it's never going to be active here or there UNLESS they / WE make it / do something along the lines I mention 1-to-1
Then 1-to-many happen and doubling / Albert Bartlett ...

and we collect all these great users with whatever online name as long as the work is good!

7 Podcast via https://vocaroo.com notes whenever people feel still feelings like a good idea - maybe an edited roundup of anonymous people as podcast from one-way voice notes you or others send me and I mix up with my own sub-thoughts and see what people think (it gets people interested). But eh we'll see...

<--- freemo

It's 9:20 PM Eastern and I'm glad you're alive.

Seriously. Thanks for being here with me now.

We're all in this together.

#MakeKindnessNormal