#lakota nations vs. united states

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli, 2022)

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

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new-to-me #343 - Lakota Nation vs. United States

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Lakota Nation vs. United States

directed by Jesse Short Bull and Laura Tomaselli, 2022

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A few pics from the Lakota Nation vs United States screening.

June 26, 2023

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Lakota Nation vs United States Review- A Masterpiece In Documentary Filmmaking

This documentary starts with a quote from Layli Long Soldier that sums up what this film truly means. “The Oceti Sakowin are Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota People together. These are the names we have called ourselves for thousands of years, which are still used today and often preferred. At times the word Sioux, Indian, American Indian,  or Native American are used to identify us, though we never…

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I’m so proud to have been a part of this film and the uplifting strength, wisdom, and love of Mother Earth and all creation that is displayed in the relatively unknown story of the Lakota, Nakota, and Dakota people’s history. You do not know the history of America without the revelations of this film told by the side of those who have lived it.

Lakota Nation vs. United States is coming to theaters on July 14th.

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I did this last year and everyone seemed to like it, so here’s my entirely unranked, incomplete, and uncategorized list of things that made me a better writer and storyteller in 2023:

- Across the Spider-Verse

A spider-man movie where the narrative is structured around Gwen Stacey is already genius, but when you take surrealist animation and the philosophical deconstruction of “Canon” into consideration… I can’t believe this movie exists.

- Kesha: Gaga Order

Kesha has always had an unhinged brilliance, but this is next level of both.

- Godzilla Minus One

Spectacle shouldn’t be what they remember from your story.

- Oppenheimer

I’m growing obsessed with the idea of a literary, poetic presentation of real lives. That’s what makes biopics fresh. (See also: VICE)

- The Adventure Zone: Steeplechase

When a storyteller uses any medium to reconcile complicated feelings about things they love, it’s the stuff of dreams. People sense it.

- They Cloned Tyrone

No one needs me to provide a Caucastic analysis of this movie, but I always appreciate when meta-aware stories use their meta-awareness to let characters break the tropes society builds for them.

- Lakota Nation vs. The United States

May be the perfect documentary. Gentle but searing imagery.

- Unknown: Cosmic Time Machine

I’m a James Webb Telescope groupie, and this is a celebration of its triumph that made me say “Maybe… maybe we’re exploring more than we give ourselves credit for.”

- Barbie

Goofy gleefulness and sincerity are really, really not that far apart from each other on the emotional spectrum.

- The Last of Us

The game is already my favorite story of all time, so I’m biased. But I can think of no higher form of art than presenting a character doing the wrong things for selfish reasons, but doing so in a way that makes you go “yeah, of course, I’d do the same thing.”

- Percy Jackson and the Olympians

We only have three episodes so far, but I’ve never seen ANY media for kids (even THAT one) that takes kids’ complicated emotions so seriously.

- Baldur’s Gate 3

For me as a DM and player, this game did that magical thing where it jumped mediums to give you the best experience both have to offer.

Honorable mentions:

- Leave the World Behind

- The Creator

- Super Mario Bros. Movie

- Asteroid City

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A Brief Materialist History of the Former US in the Mid-21st Century

2030s: the Polycrisis. Unresolved issues of climate and pollution cause more and more intense natural disasters, which wipe out swathes of vital but poorly-maintained infrastructure. The US federal gov't is too hollowed-out at this point to fix anything, and the tangle of middlemen contractors responsible for actually building and repairing that infrastructure all try to deny responsibility, causing a massive growth spurt of federalism as state governments are forced to step in and try to put out the literal and metaphorical fires. All this embarrassing chaos tarnishes the US's economic reputation of stability, causing a feedback loop of economic contractions as more and more foreign investors pull back from US investments, causing stock market drops which make even more investors panic and pull back, etc. The decade ends with the signing of the Qingdao Accords, a sort of reverse Marshall Plan where the newly-formed Global Logistics Network pours money into infrastructure projects in exchange for creating their own tangle of middlemen contractors. The signing of the Qingdao Accords is generally taken as the end of the Second Cold War with a Chinese victory.

2040s: the Sheriff's Insurrection. A loose alliance of small-town sheriffs (as well as small-business tyrants, conspiracy theorists, retvrn types, and various opportunists, all collectively referred to as 'Sheriffs') resist the "Chinese takeover of America" in a 21st century version of the evergreen landowners-vs-industrialists conflict. They are quickly fought off by GLN-hired paramilitary forces (the same forces will go on to form the Surplus Young Men, an Armored Core/Outer Heaven style 'security force' which is technically unaligned but everyone knows they're cashing GLN checks). The Sheriffs flee to the Midwest, creating a decentralized zone of tiny feuding principalities derogatorily dubbed ‘the manors.’ Other former US states begin to unite into new regional nations - Boswash, California, Cascadia, Texaplex, and the Great Lakes Republic. These new nations actually seem like they might be here to stay, but with much less ability to go sticking their nose in the rest of the world's business, and the decade ends with a sigh of relief. Meanwhile, China’s victory in the Second Cold War proves to be a Pyrrhic victory as the death of Xi Jinping (probably of natural causes but who knows) allows the GLN to balloon in wealth and influence. The CCP takes a sharp nationalist turn, re-branding itself as the Chinese China Party and turning party politics into a game of who can dunk on Americans the most.

2050s: Things are… good? The GLN is delivering on their promise of a new economic order, an automated and algorithmic 21st century market socialism with an infrastructure-based middle class of technicians, data analysts, and civil servants. There's still a global underclass of cheap mobile labor to actually go out to the middle of nowhere and build all this stuff but, y'know, it's a smaller global underclass. The manors calm down a little as the GLN supports the formation of autochthonous American nations: the Seven Council Fires of the Lakota and Dakota in the Midwest and the Diné Nation in the southwest, along with the progressive majority-black government of Piedmont in the Atlantic South, make it feel like we might be doing something about that whole ‘foundational white supremacy’ thing (The GLN was, of course, happy to take credit for solving racism forever). The GLN gets to claim even more PR victories as various post-colonial regions peacefully unify as ‘leagues,’ EU-style intra-national coalitions that work together on economic on diplomatic matters while letting individual states largely manage their own affairs. The US nations start to wonder if it might be time to form a league of their own. (Incidentally, by this point the EU has split apart into Frankistan and Mitteleuropa, Spain has exploded again, and Punished Britain is not coping well with their fall from grace.)

2060s: Who knows? Things start getting tense as the global construction boom slows down and the money-hose starts to dry up. 'Minor' regional problems and potential long-term issues are swept under the rug because "we’ve got a good thing going here, don't fuck this up," and the once-radical new visions for the world are already beginning to seem calcified and sclerotic. The newly-formed American League is poised to be little more than a rubber stamp for GLN policy… or is it?

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Lakota Nation vs. United States (2022, Jesse Short Bull & Laura Tomaselli)

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Mark Ruffalo attends the Lakota Nation Vs united states premiere at IFC centre in New York on 26th June 2023

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i’m gonna watch lakota nation vs united states