played a lot of hold ém and 7-stud on one of the reservations in Iowa back in the 90s. The dealers were all tribals…and they knew, and were not shy about stating, that the idea that the casinos and other businesses were about helping/enriching the tribes was pure bullshit.
A couple of well connected indians got rich and the rest got minimum wage slave labor.
This. There have been lots of up and downs since i got on this train back in mid summer of 2016. I jumped on board because it was clearly a group of anons with some serious processing power. But over time it also became apparent that this group had a SPINE.
When rough patches appear (like now) there is no need for concern. It is a collective catching of breath. And when shit starts up again after the pause it is fucking to wonderful to behold.
take your fundamentalist project, dispensationalist schofield bullshit back to wherever it came from.
Matthew 24:36
'And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known – not even the messengers of the heavens – except my Father only;