William Frank Jr., born on this day in 1931, was an indigenous environmental leader and treaty rights activist known for his use of the “fish-in”, a civil disobedience tactic used to win indigenous rights to natural resources.

A Nisqually tribal member, Frank is particularly known for his grassroots campaign for fishing rights on the tribe’s Nisqually River. Frank was arrested more than 50 times in the “Fish Wars” of the 1960s and 1970s because of his intense dedication to the treaty fishing rights cause.

The tribal struggle was taken to the courts in “U.S. v. Washington”, with federal judge George Hugo Boldt issuing a ruling in favor of the native tribes in 1974. The “Boldt Decision” established the 20 treaty Indian tribes in western Washington as co-managers of the salmon resource with the State of Washington, and re-affirmed tribal rights to half of the harvestable salmon returning to western Washington.

https://billyfrankjr.org/

I hope you nerds have a great March. kirby-spin

Remember no crackers

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    Work keeps coming up with BS problems for me to solve and I’m just like, I dunno man I’m just waiting for some resistance movement to pop off so I can quit and dedicate my life to that

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    How many white “leftists” are basically just this guy? Community service… unless you’re brown, then I will murder you

    It’s for the college money though so you can die happy!

    Probably somewhere from a majority to a supermajority, judging by how many of them are invading my feed turning this dead murderer into some kind of victim. “But but but he was only an IT specialist!!!” Literal Nuremberg trial defense attorney type shit. One wonders how they find time to say this shit when they’re so busy calling genocide victims literally Hitler for hurting white Jewish feelings

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      Boy Scouts has always been a funnel into the military, that was its original founding purpose - to train boys to be ready for military service. That’s why it’s directly integrated into the US state, Eagle Scouts get automatic promotions upon enlisting. This was set up like a century ago.

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        Seems obvious on the face of it, and if that wasn’t enough even a cursory look at the history of scouting - just read what Baden-Powell wrote about it himself - would reveal it for what it is. And yet mentioning this to certain white “leftists” causes incredible levels of offense as if I’m personally destroying their childhood.

        “But but but it’s just a fun outdoorsy program and all the flag stuff was just on the side!” Funny statement because former members of the hitler youth said the exact same thing almost word-for-word. Apparently it’s not indoctrination unless you’re being tied down to a chair and forced to watch Mel Gibson’s The Patriot on loop for 250 hours.

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      This legitimately pissed me tf off when I first saw it because I just KNOW that the shitlibs and chuds are now going to use this guy to do even more apologism for the US military, ad infinitum ad nauseam, just like they do with the “poverty draft” and “they were innocent smol beans who didn’t know what they were doing!” The fact that this guy signed up to kill brown people abroad is never even going to set in for so many people. This shit makes me so mad omg

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        they were innocent smol beans who didn’t know what they were doing!

        “Uhh I didn’t know the military was for killing people” who tf do these pricks think they’re fooling?

        poverty draft

        Funny how this same sympathy isn’t extended to robbers and thieves who kill far less people

        “Uhh look he was just a kid once” yeah so was everyone who has ever lived and ever will live, who cares?

        “Uhh but he did community service” yeah the white supremacist death squad member? Remind me why I should care. What if Hitler did trash cleanup as a kid?

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          Funny how this same sympathy isn’t extended to robbers and thieves who kill far less people

          I never really thought about it before but that’s a good point. I guess the fact that the military’s crimes are largely committed abroad rather than domestically is justification enough to worship them

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      NY Post when anyone suggests helping the homelessvisible-disgust

      NY Post when it can use helping the homeless to make war criminals look like good peopledean-smile

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        Gotta wonder what “helping homeless youth” meant considering he jumped straight from that to murdering brown children. “You can’t kill our combatants after we bomb your country, that’s terrorism!”

        lol @ bringing up him being in boy scouts as if I should care what this dipshit did before getting owned. He killed 200 kids and if Iran hadn’t stopped him he’d have killed 200 more.

        I hope it was long, I hope he had time to piss and shit himself before it was over.

        Hope this doesn’t start another what-time-is-it , the only thing the resident crackers here love more than whitewashing war criminals is Ziohran Copdani.

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        A real “Der Sturmer article memorializing dead concentration camp guards with childhood Hitlerjugend photos” moment

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    The way liberals talk about the Iran war like “Trump wants you to pay attention to THIS instead of the Epstein issue” is like such a smugly dismissive attitude to take about people being fucking slaughtered overseas and an entire nation’s sovereignty being violated. Very close to just saying “Please don’t care about those savage BROWN people being blown up and crippled by our military, that’s soooo unimportant and just a distraction!”

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      I have yet to have anyone point out what they realistically believe would happen to Trump if all the files were released. Do they really believe in the justice system that much? Or hell, thay the Democrats would actually do anything resembling bringing justice to the victims?

      Speaking of which, I’ve also seen people trying to bring this all back to Russiagate just because Trump is pulling back some of the sanctions on Russian oil. Its like these people go out of their way to make all of this about the anglosphere instead of the suffering of brown people.

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      It completely ignores how democrats have been complicit in anti-Iranian rhetoric since the US failed to hijack their revolution. The American hostages happened under Carter. Hillary Clinton, Biden, and Harris were all very vocal about wanting to bomb Iran.

      This isn’t Trump’s personal project. This is something with bipartisan support and Iran has been preparing for this war because they know this.

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    The “You need 4 Black grandparents to be Black” shit is such odd discourse to see.

    Whenever I describe it, I like to phrase it in a way that makes it sound as absurd as possible.

    For example, I don’t say, “There are Black people who believe that you need 4 Black grandparents to be Black.”

    Instead, I say, “There are Black people who believe that Malcolm X wasn’t Black.”

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      That’s so bizarre because of how the 1-drop rule is still in effect…well, everywhere. My niece is 1/4th. black and to the surprise of no one, had some issues at school with racism towards her for being black. Like if people think you look like a certain ethnicity, they will treat you as that ethnicity regardless of your actual ethnicity.

      Sounds like some black Israelite nonsense.

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        Race essentialism is disturbingly pervasive among lots of so-called “pro–Black” folks (hoteps and “FBA” mfs).

        These people seriously want me, with my dark skin, big lips, and nappy hair, to stop calling myself Black simply because my father is a Trinidadian Dougla.

        CW: Slavery/SA

        It is ironic because most Black people in the Americas have a not-so-insignificant chunk (anywhere from 15% to 25%) of European ancestry due to enslaved African women being SA’d.

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    >Log into Hexbear

    >White users calling genocide victims “intellectual failures” and lecturing them about “conflation”

    >Log out of hexbear

    Huh, guess that was all it took to set the local hwytes off howling about the savage muslamics attacking the enlightened west

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    White people with a marginalized identity always seem to think their marginalized identity cancels out their whiteness when, no, in some cases, it just makes them even more smug and insufferable.

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      It’s even worse when their “marginalized” identities aren’t actually marginalized. Like “Italian”-Americans pretending to be oppressed in the year of our lord 2026. And other cases too, but getting too much into detail would probably set off another cracker meltdown on this site

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        Yep, that shit’s fucking absurd, and it also plays a primary role into why people validate the Zionist entity. Trust no honky to be anything before a honky.

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          Incredibly telling that the second a genocide victim gets too uppity every resident cracker on this site immediately goes into “not all men” mode and plays the entire deck of “anti-white racism” cards. Acceptability of genocide isn’t predicated on whether people who share the same religion as the perpetrators support it or not.

          In an ideal world every cracker who sees the murdered people of Gaza and whose first concern is about antisemitism would be permabanned. Instead we get months of frothing rage demanding the POC on this site do a song and dance to satisfy the political sensibilities of a super special group of whites. (Yes I know not all Jews are white, but this is an American site so just look at the demographics for the US. Supermajority white and for all intents and purposes functions the same as any other group of whites in the US). Sick and tired of crackers here trotting out POC Jews as props for some kind of “gotcha”)

          Imagine if half the discussion of the holocaust on this site was concerned with how it made the Germans look bad. Would the local whites lecture an Auschwitz prisoner who says they want to kill Germans to watch their tongue? My guess is it would depend on their skin tone.

          Seems like we have an infestation of “anti-white racism” types that are too cowardly to outright say it so they make it about “antisemitism on the left” instead. Plus, it comes with the bonus of being able to sicc an angry white mob at any POC who steps out of line! Really reminds me of the “genocide denier” accusation tossed out at anybody who questioned the “Uyghur genocide” narrative. Taking something that used to have meaning and turning it into an unfalsifiable moral buzzword.

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            How dialectical of them to act like a victimized Arab saying “Curse on the Jews” is no different than Richard Spencer saying Jews are undermining the West through “cultural Marxism”

            /sarcasm

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      There’s been neighborhood drama for me I haven’t talked about here because it’s an ongoing court case. It involves a bunch of scratched libs victimizing themselves. Whole thing has been deeply unserious. Like no, you’re all just asshole white people.

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    Not a single Jewish person died in the zionist synagogue attack and we’ll never hear the end of how innocent children shouldn’t be harmed but the 160 murdered Iranian children is old news.

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      At the end of the day, Zionism has almost completely infiltrated every single Western Jewish institution of note, which means almost every single Western Jewish institution of note simultaneously exists as a Zionist institution. Various WANA commentators have repeatedly warned that if righteous God-fearing anti-Zionist Jews do not expel Zionists and Zionism from their synagogues and communities by any means necessary, the job will have to fall on the lap of non-Jews instead. And unlike observant Jews, non-Jews will not be as thoughtful towards Jewish religious sensitivities when the Zionists are being forcefully expelled from their communities.

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      Also the synagogue organized funding events for israel, its not crazy to point out that someone grieving for his families death will blame an institution closely related to the country that killed his family

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        Also the synagogue organized funding events for israel

        Always got to leave that part out of the discourse because ??? I saw some of the early replies saying that he shouldn’t have attacked a synagogue, but if its providing material support to the entity then it is a legitimate target. Fuck any and all institutions that prop up “Israel”.

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      The man responsible for the attack posted on instagram pics of family members he lost in Lebanon in an israeli attack including young children but somehow people will say israel is needed for the safety of jews and not the main reason for antisemitism.

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          What’s even more frustrating is they’re not even Jewish themselves. All of the mods who threw a shitfit during the “Holocaust emoji” struggle session are non-Jews getting upset on Jewish users’ behalf. The actual Jews who use this site were all on-board having a burning Israeli flag emoji.

          Another case of Whitey insisting he be the leader at the forefront to demonstrate his “allyship.” I swear to God the Autobiography of Malcolm X should be required reading (Malcolm was complaining about the same shit 60+ years ago).

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            White “guilt” over the holocaust as a unique evil (who cares about all the other genocides that came before and after that one they weren’t white victims) makes them jump the gun everytime.

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          Yep. During the whole star of david debacle only after days and several members complaining did they demote the zionist mod who sent death threats to muslim/arab members and only after more time did they ban them.

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            Sheez, this site does not give a fuck about their non-white members

            But that’s honestly like saying grass is green at this point.

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      honky talk on my hexbear?!?! crazy thing is half of that shit in the post isn’t even true of the gusanos that come from other countries like wtf i’ve never heard anyone from the african diaspora complain about wokeness, but hey whatever cracker talk is needed to put down poc

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          To be fair, my diehard Catholic grandparents from the Caribbean definitely give this vibe, but honestly, they’re also very myopic people and do not seem to engage in critical thinking very much, at least when it comes to politics.

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            yeah i have catholic family too but their bigotry is of the “gay not okay” not some overarching fear of the woke bogeyman that’s try to destroy our society

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      “Bruh why do poc leftists bat so hard for other poc who are also victims and targets of racist aggression and oppression when they don’t share our views smh btw I’m def not racist but I only support poc who pass my moral purity test” sounding ass. It’s almost like liberation is for ALL and not just the ones that share our views. And people call themselves leftists let alone marxists.

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      A lot of immigrants I know are from work and they were rich in their home country and are able to be upper class here. I’m talking 7 figure homes and investment properties. Some make the same as I do and their income is used for savings or investment while I use mine to survive off of.

      I told them if layoffs are coming, give my name instead because my citizenship isn’t tied to my employment. If ICE were to do some sweeps, I’d fight to get them free.

      I despise their capitalist sympathy but respect their unstable status.

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      Never ceases to amaze me how little consideration people here can have for historical, material, and dialectical analysis when it comes to POC matters on this site. We could point out how bad gusanos, comprados, etc, etc are and they’ll still talk about “blind support”. And, of course, the example given is an anti-LGBTQ policy. As many comrades in this thread have said before, for them whiteness come before anything.

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        “Marxists” on hexbear disregarding dialectical materialism??? I’ll pretend to be shocked.

        And yes ofc the main argument present was the big bad brown muslims oppressing the poor white queers in the US lmao

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        I really don’t understand what’s so fucking difficult about it, either.

        For example, I am not a woman or queer. There are comms here where people from those groups talk about the issues they face. I recognize I’m going to have blind spots due to my cishet male privilege. Whenever I see them complaining about men or straights or cis people, I know they are venting in generalizations, not me specifically. I know I can offer sympathy, but not necessarily advice. I know especially not to argue, again, because of the blind spots due to my privilege. I know to believe what they say and accept they are coming from a position of good faith, not trolls posting rage bait or karma farming.

        So why then is this so fucking difficult for white people from these groups to give the same considerations to PoC? Why is it whenever PoC make complaints they get defensive? I don’t encounter this problem when talking about the other group I belong to, the disabled. The only conclusions I can draw are exactly what’s been said: they are white above all else, especially above leftism.