Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "Democrats Kick Bernie Off New York Ballot" video.

  1. Probably some nice nuggets in "A People's History of Fake News." From the first pamphleteers to YouTube, there hasn't been a media outlet that didn't have an axe to grind because its ownership/management group had an axe to grind, interests to protect, enemies to attack. What we learned from Hitler was the power of controlled media. But rather than fight against it, we set about systematically controlling the media. Now it's a toxic mix of government and corporate interference. When it was useful to treat Indian lands as OUR lands, then "The only good injun is a dead injun," and Manifest Destiny. Not that we were any different from any other civilization running into an existing civilization. If one can take what belongs to the other, history teaches that it will, and it will generate whatever useful lies will serve the takeover. So a study on "Fake News" over the centuries would be most interesting. We can't un-do mistakes of the past, but maybe we should re-think how we basically don't allow the tribes to really own the 'reservations' we say are theirs. Tribal members don't really own their own land, and it removes all incentive from seeking to improve their land, which I would think Indians would have rare abilities and insights into what that meant.
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