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URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/journal/Indigenous-Poetry-Examples-1386886648 IMAGE Untitled (Blue and Gold) by Dyani White Hawk CONTENT This is for the Indigenous Epigraph Poetry Challenge in All the poems come from the following https://www.poetryfoundation.org/collections/144560/native-american-poetry-and-culture A last note before presenting these poems. They are merely selections. , I used an alphabetical structure, A to Z , first come first serve. Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World By Sherman Alexie of Spokane/Coeur d’Alene The morning air is all awash with angels—Richard Wilbur, “Love Calls Us to the Things of This World” The eyes open to a blue telephone In the bathroom of this five-star hotel. I wonder whom I should call? A plumber, Proctologist, urologist, or priest? Who is blessed among us and most deserves The first call? I choose my father because He’s astounded by bathroom telephones. I dial home. My mother answers. “Hey, Ma,” I say, “Can I talk to Poppa?” She gasps, And then I remember that my father Has been dead for nearly a year. “Shit, Mom,” I say. “I forgot he’s dead. I’m sorry— How did I forget?” “It’s okay,” she says. “I made him a cup of instant coffee This morning and left it on the table— Like I have for, what, twenty-seven years— And I didn’t realize my mistake Until this afternoon.” My mother laughs At the angels who wait for us to pause During the most ordinary of days And sing our praise to forgetfulness Before they slap our souls with their cold wings. Those angels burden and unbalance us. Those fucking angels ride us piggyback. Those angels, forever falling, snare us And haul us, prey and praying, into dust. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52923/grief-calls-us-to-the-things-of-this-world Blues-ing on the Brown Vibe By Esther Belin of Diné (Navajo) I. And Coyote struts down East 14th feeling good looking good feeling the brown melting into the brown that loiters rapping with the brown in front of the Native American Health Center talking that talk of relocation from tribal nation of recent immigration to the place some call the United States home to many dislocated funky brown ironic immigration more accurate tribal nation to tribal nation and Coyote sprinkles corn pollen in the four directions to thank the tribal people indigenous to what some call the state of California the city of Oakland for allowing use of their land. II. And Coyote travels by Greyhound from Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA thru Dinétah to Oakland, California, USA laughing Interstate 40 is cluttered with RVs from as far away as Maine traveling and traveling to perpetuate the myth Coyote kicks back for most of the ride amused by the constant herd of tourists amazed by the mythic Indian they create at a pit stop in Winslow Coyote trades a worn beaded cigarette lighter for roasted corn from a middle-aged Navajo woman squatting in front of a store and Coyote squats alongside the woman talking that talk of bordertown blues of reservation discrimination blues-ing on the brown vibe a bilagáana snaps a photo the Navajo woman stands holding out her hand requesting some of her soul back instead she replaces her soul with a worn picture of George Washington on a dollar bill and Coyote starts on another ear of corn climbing onto the Greyhound the woman still squatting waiting tired of learning not to want waits there for the return of all her pieces. III. And Coyote wanders right into a Ponca sitting at the Fruitvale Bart station next to the Ponca is a Seminole Coyote struts up to the two “Where ya’all from?” the Ponca replies “Oooklahooma” pause the Seminole silent watches a rush of people climb in and out of the train headed for Fremont the Seminole stretches his arms up and back stiff from the wooden benches pause he pushes his lips out toward the Ponca slowly gesturing that he too is from Oklahoma Coyote wanders “where ’bouts?” the Ponca replies “Ponnca City” pause the Seminole replies “Seminoole” Coyote gestures to the Ponca “You Ponca?” the Ponca nods his head in affirmation Coyote nods his head in content to the Seminole Coyote asks “You Seminole?” pause the Seminole now watching some kids eating frozen fruit bars nods his head and Coyote shares his smokes with the two and ten minutes later they travel together on the Richmond train headed for Wednesday night dinner at the Intertribal Friendship House. IV. And Coyote blues-ing on the urban brown funk vibe wanders in and out of existence tasting the brown rusty at times worn bitter from relocation. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53453/blues-ing-on-the-brown-vibe Prayer to Fix the Affections By Gladys Cardiff of Eastern Band of Cherokee O Ancient One, your web hangs down from the pines. I am of the Owl clan. I have been to water, my dress is of red clay. He moves at the edge of you, binds us with your threads. The center of his soul shall be my soul’s center. Our paths shall be white forever. Where we move the paths from every direction shall recognize each other. We are one never to be parted. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53171/prayer-to-fix-the-affections A Mighty Pulverizing Machine By Laura Da’ of Shawnee (Eastern Shawnee Tribe of Oklahoma) To each orphaned child—so long as you remain close enough to walk to your living kin you will dance, feast, feel community in food. This cannot stand. Eighty acres allotted. To each head of household—so long as you remember your tribal words for village you will recollect that the grasses still grow and the rivers still flow. So long as you teach your children these words they will remember as well. This we cannot allow. One hundred and sixty acres allotted. To each elder unable to till or hunt—so long as your old and injurious habits sing out over the drum or flicker near the fire you cripple our reward. We seek to hasten your end. Eighty acres allotted. To each widowed wife—so long as you can make your mark, your land may be leased. A blessing on your mark when you sign it and walk closer to your favored white sister. Eighty acres allotted. To each full blood—so long as you have an open hand, we shall fill it with a broken ploughshare. One hundred and sixty acres allotted. To each half blood, each quarter strain—so long as you yearn for the broken ploughshare, you will be provided a spade honed to razor in its place. When every acre of your allotment has been leased or sold, you will turn it on yourself. From that date begins our real and permanent progress. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147037/a-mighty-pulverizing-machine Anonymous Is Coyote Girl By Anita Endrezze of Yaqui From a newspaper photo and article about my godfather, James Moreno, East Los Angeles, 1950. (Three police officers took a brutal beating in a wild free-for-all with a family, including three young girls. From left, James, 19, and Alex, 22, in jail after the fracas on the porch of their home at 3307 Hunter.) Jimmy is staring off the page, hands in his pockets. A four-button dark shirt. No bruises, but he looks dazed. Alex wears a leather coat and a polka-dot shirt, which is in itself a crime. Nowhere is there a photo of a young girl with a face carved like a racetrack saint, eyes with all bets called off, grinning like a coyote. (Officer Parks had his glasses broken with his own sap and was thrown through a window.) Jimmy and Alex are my dad’s cousins, lived on Boyle Heights and tortillas. Mama says the cops always harassed them, those niños from East L.A., driving their low-riders, chrome shinier than a cop’s badge. And why wasn’t Coyote Girl mentioned, that round-armed girl with a punch like a bag of bees, a girl with old eyes, her lips cracking open as she saw the cop sailing through glass, boiling out of Boyle Heights, skidding on the sidewalk, flat as a tortilla? (The officers received severe cuts and bruises, were treated at a hospital and released in time to jail the youths, who were charged with assault with a deadly weapon.) Two years later, I was born and Jimmy entered the church, hands in his pockets, shoulders hunched, watching the christening. Four drops of water, like popped-off wafer-thin buttons, fell on my head. No. He never showed up that day or any other. My spiritual guardian must’ve been there in spirit only. He didn’t know nada about Got and no one knows where he is today, but I think you could find him at the end of a knife. Or in the slash of the z in ¡La Raza! the dark blood reds of graffiti. Or tomatoes grown in old coffee cans by a white-haired man sitting in the sun in a dark shirt, next to an old woman growing younger every day as I tell her story, my story, our story with all the grace and power of a deadly weapon. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53430/anonymous-is-coyote-girl … Bee By Eric Gansworth of Onondaga Nation (Onondaga Nation) I stood in a longhouse with a woman who may or may not be Mohawk. Some shift their opinions about her like meteorologists, as if her blood were a storm system tracked in its comings and goings. But the father of her two sons was, without question, Seneca. We knew that, in Haudenosaunee country, a father is to some degree irrelevant, that her own shifting identity would impact her sons’ lives like a gene vulnerable to betrayal, causing certain, terminal conditions. She waited on an elder she called Steam (warning I was not to call the elder woman by that name). Steam (not Steam) would observe the boys, understand their natures, give them their Creator names defining their lives during the next ceremony. I confessed my namelessness, confessed my longhouse- and fluency- deficient community, and confessed that my clan mother, three hours away, did not know me well enough to give me a name, confessed my community followed a more casual ceremony. You find your name after a social misstep, a dubious facial feature, a birth defect. Names offer the name-givers comfort, that your challenge is harder than theirs, no matter the truth. Our names are a convoluted toughening of our skins. My name is not like Steam (no one is forbidden to use it). No one calls me Batman because of my status, my utility belt, my impressive batpole, my agility, my muscles, my profile in spandex, my virtues, but because I wore the cape to an older age than I should have, and could continue to wear it now, as that shit is not going away any time soon. Even kids who only know Christian Bale or Michael Keaton, lurking in latex and leather hood, still think Batman is my name. And this is why I have no memory for when or how you became the Bumblebee, what it means, beyond the literal. You soar in gardens, spend days ensuring growth, and if metaphors are at work here, this one seems true enough to keep you in amber wings, fuzzy yellow rings, black lacquer torso, and sensitive antennae. What metaphor suits the night I left on the Amtrak for Chicago, past 1:00 a.m., while you stood on the platform, watching those cars pull out, the night I wanted to leap from the train, stay? I cannot invent new names for the ways we slow, struggle, attempt to maintain the illusion of futures without measure, defy actuary numbers and because I have gone closer to the light than you have, the story is easier to craft and finesse than it should be. Pollination trails are smaller than those I’m forced to fly in, and lying in Little Rock, Santa Fe, Manhattan, Minneapolis, Seattle, hotel rooms, the ellipse of your name trail winds me home, waiting, dusted in pollen and history. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/146712/-bee Fieldwork By Joan Naviyuk Kane of Inupiaq Another day of heat- strangers continue to wobble across the horizon, bringing drought when instead we should have deluge. I steep snow-lichen in water I drew from a lake which has since gone dry. At sea few understood me, as though I induced a sickness that deafened, then healed. As before, I predict lies, to be pushed from the boat time and time again. Nevertheless, I expect to get by while their widowers· seek refuge with their provident families; perhaps a storm will pile fish at their doors when the red tide rises, perhaps they will not follow as we move, moon into moon, under another sky. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/158604/fieldwork How Soon By Gordon Henry Jr. of White Earth Chippewa The story goes from in a rainfall to sister walking a field browned autumn. And when she arrives winter has come, so the old man rises from his chair, picks up matches, pipes and tools, and walks out to begin again. The sculptures grow by the day, birds in ice, recognizable eagles, a bear who began as a man in a moment of dance. He does this in ice, all winter carving at dawn, carving at dusk. And sister after walking a field browned autumn, arrives, watches from the east window, waits, goes out to him in spring, taps him on the shoulder and points to the pools of water he's standing over. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147311/how-soon Marshlands By Emily Pauline Johnson of Mohawk A thin wet sky, that yellows at the rim, And meets with sun-lost lip the marsh’s brim. The pools low lying, dank with moss and mould, Glint through their mildews like large cups of gold. Among the wild rice in the still lagoon, In monotone the lizard shrills his tune. The wild goose, homing, seeks a sheltering, Where rushes grow, and oozing lichens cling. Late cranes with heavy wing, and lazy flight, Sail up the silence with the nearing night. And like a spirit, swathed in some soft veil, Steals twilight and its shadows o’er the swale. Hushed lie the sedges, and the vapours creep, Thick, grey and humid, while the marshes sleep. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/52095/marshlands Ghost Dance By Sara Littlecrow-Russell of Anishinaabeg (Ojibwe) and Han-Naxi Métis Two hundred seventy Ghost Dancers died dreaming That humanity would drown In a flood of White sins. Then the renewed earth Would reclaim city and town, Leaving only Ghost Dancers And those who lived by nature’s laws. History books say the threat is gone. The Ghost Dance died with the ancestors— Wovoka and his sacred dream Were destroyed. Each time it rains, I go out to the sidewalk, Where the tree roots Have broken the concrete Listening to the water’s whispering: “It is coming soon.” URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53461/ghost-dance Love Poem to a Butch Woman By Deborah A. Miranda of Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen This is how it is with me: so strong, I want to draw the egg from your womb and nourish it in my own. I want to mother your child made only of us, of me, you: no borrowed seed from any man. I want to re-fashion the matrix of creation, make a human being from the human love that passes between our bodies. Sweetheart, this is how it is: when you emerge from the bedroom in a clean cotton shirt, sleeves pushed back over forearms, scented with cologne from an amber bottle—I want to open my heart, the brightest aching slit of my soul, receive your pearl. I watch your hands, wait for the sign that means you’ll touch me, open me, fill me; wait for that moment when your desire leaps inside me. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53926/love-poem-to-a-butch-woman The Dice Changer By Duane Niatum of S’Klallam Raven steals your name for an autumn joke: buries it along with you under the broadest hemlock known to squirrel or chipmunk. He croaks it’s too bad you were awake for the event. He accuses you of boring him with the same old questions over and over. You attempt revolt to prove his rattle is cracked and as brittle as his song. Raven clacks his beak like a trap and hollers your face is a mask splitting down the middle and madness has found a home. All stink and fur dung, the black master quips you had a chance to flee but forgot where and what direction. Now he blurts your pain must jump in the river, the river thrash like the wind, the mountain awaken you to the currents of the sea. Raven hops away and chuckles as the dark chatters, flips you over to your earth shadow. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53165/the-dice-changer Grandmothers Land By William Oandasan of Yuki around the house stood an orchard of plum, apple and pear a blackwalnut tree, one white pine, groves of white oak and willow clumps the home of Jessie was largely redwood blood, flesh and bone sprouted inside her womb of redwood for five generations the trees now stand unpruned and wild after relocating so many years before the War the seeds of Jessie have returned afternoon sunlight on the field breezes moving grass and leaves memories with family names wait within the earth, the mountains, the valley, the field, the trees URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53257/grandmothers-land Lear’s Wife By Elise Paschen of Osage ... if thou shouldst not be glad, I would divorce me from thy mother’s tomb, Sepulch’ring an adult’ress. — William Shakespeare, King Lear He faked my death, set up this ranch far from my three daughters. Suburban hellhole. With bracelet on ankle, house- arrest. At noon the bully sun shoulders a ripe moon. In the dark soaps reign. The anchors will often flash their glitterati weddings. Not one daughter has birthed an heir. In vitro — be damned. I hose the lawn and count the cars like fish slipping their shiny chrome along asphalt. Which sparrow missed? Cordelia — my gutted heart. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/90674/lears-wife Buckeye as You Are By Wendy Rose of Hopi and Miwok September 11, 2001 They walk past you weeping for the leaves that burnt & fell, the wood exposed like bone, sculpture that suddenly emerges from white haze. You old fortune-teller, you could have told them in their vibrant grief whispering through the night wind your breath held in your heart like the trembling promise of tomorrow, just before dawn there was no pain you are the wood not the leaf, falling is not falling but offering. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/53427/buckeye-as-you-are Now I'm a Woman By Cedar Sigo of Suquamish When you hear the knives ring Turn the page. I wonder why I am not Myself of late, ridiculous glass edges Turn back on themselves And soon reveal The hand of an apprentice And godforsaken embarrassing torch, Stormy back hallways Out of the black and wooden theatres. Crystal Waters plus her driver Plus her entourage is still rolling out Of the Sands, Atlantic City On the soundtracks to shows Held over at The Fairmount She is throwing back shots With the mafia. I have learned To take apart this American Songbook And very fortunately as I would take My audience in confidence Threads of gold fall closely together Coming to break us off. At the first of the shows I sang this song And in between I saw him in the hall, What could I tell you? “Someday we’ll build on a hilltop high.” URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54490/now-im-a-woman Battlefield By Mark Turcotte of Ojibwe (Turtle Mountain Chippewa) Back when I used to be Indian I am standing outside the pool hall with my sister. She strawberry blonde. Stale sweat and beer through the open door. A warrior leans on his stick, fingers blue with chalk. Another bends to shoot. His braids brush the green felt, swinging to the beat of the jukebox. We move away. Hank Williams falls again in the backseat of a Cadillac. I look back. A wind off the distant hills lifts my shirt, brings the scent of wounded horses. URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/40865/battlefield And I wonder where you are By Tanaya Winder of Duckwater Shoshone Sacred stars blanket a nighttime sky, each light reminds us of the preciousness of life. Your memory lives along the Milky Way, each twinkle saying don’t forget my name. It’s an epidemic, a sickness of the earth, a war we enter as soon as we are birthed. Indigenous women, girls, our two-spirit, too. When did this world start disappearing you? URL https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poems/155482/and-i-wonder-where-you-are

URL https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/art/The-Story-Star-1389865978 CONTENT TITLE: The Story Star The Story goes from in a rainfall rains poured from the future cascading down a thick corpse wall good ancestors can't sense their story , is the story, few today call the story is the farthest star the hope way above the shackled hall will truth ever shine bright bright enough to be an eagle's mall I wish I knew, at least for me the eagle will fall by the truth tall and crack all the chi-mookomaan from Richard Murray @HDdeviant For the Indigenous Epigraph Poetry Challenge of @CRLiterature Opening line is from "How Soon" from <Gordon HEnry Jr. > of the White Earth CHippewa https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/147311/how-soon cascade- when water slides on rock, not fall in air sense-all perceptibility [see, hear, touch, cognize, or any other] call-shout, proclaim loudly the shackled hall- earth eagle- people with majority white European descent plus said people's culture eagle's mall-bat of staff to hit eagle From Nora Livesay , the Ojibwe People's Dictionary Editor [ https://ojibwe.lib.umn.edu/ ] There are three words for 'white person' in the Ojibwe People's Dictionary. waabishkiiwed comes from the verb waabishkiiwe meaning 'to have a pale complexion' - this word is primarily used in Northern regions (Red Lake Reservation and the Canadian Border Lakes areas) wayaabishkiiwed also comes from the verb waabishkiiwe, and is primarily used in south of Red Lake. It means the same thing; just pronounced slightly differently. gichi-mookomaan (or chi-mookomaan for short) is an older word used through the entire dialect, and references the long calvary knives that soldiers once carried. A speaker from White Earth would find all three words understandable, and would likely use one of the last two, depending on personal preference. If you like my craft, I have a tip jar https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/tier/Tip-Jar-to-HDdeviant-902770076 Poetry Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/84827787/poetry Literature Gallery https://www.deviantart.com/hddeviant/gallery/81311721/my-tales-or-poetry #indigenous #inspired #epigraph #poetry #IIEP2026 #hddeviant #richardmurray #richardmurrayhumblr #thestorystar #ojibwe #crliterature

POST https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12924-rmnewsletter-5th-format-10112026/ my comment https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12924-rmnewsletter-5th-format-10112026/#findComment-83767 @Pioneer1 thank you for sharing your personal history :) it is an AI voice, the text is mine:) I place my voice in my audio books. These don't warrant that. public lynchings were common in the north too, the populace of black people in the usa was at one time circa 90% southern so the majority of terrorist acts from whties to blacks in the usa was southern, by population density. but i argue, the north had a greater rate considering the smaller black populace or larger percentage of white people outside the south. Yes, public execution on t.v. is rare in the usa historically, but not public execution. Do you get my point? I Argue in the past 150 years , more humans have been publicly executed in the usa than Iran, Saudi Arabia, North Korea combined by a far ddistance, and the usa in the past 500 years between indigenous people side native americans have been publicly executed in a quantity that saudi arabia+north korea+ iran in that same time frame can never reach in the next 400 to 500 years. I am 100% certain the iran's,/north korea's/saudi arabias had more televised executions than the usa from the 1960s onwards, remember, all three of those countries were made in the 1900s, they didn't exist in the 1800s and before and were enslaved to empires iran the ottoman, north korea, japan and saudi arabia the ottoman. Is the usa increasingly violent or merely wha tit has always been?:) When I see the history of the usa i dont see the changes that others see. JAmes forten was a black business owner before the usa was founded and after the usa was founded. Was it rare to see black fiscal wealth then yes, is it still rare to see black fiscal wealth now? yes. The existence of black peopel who have reached great heights fiscally or governmentally isn't unknown. People say th eusa was better in the 1960s comapred to 1865 but ALice and many other black people wer eenslaved to whites three years before I have a dream speech. People say jim crow is over and yet all back communities from inside. the big cities to towns throughout the south or spare cities beyond the south are being negatively influenced by jim crow laws or elgislators . so, have things changed? the abuse has never changed. the qualities of the abuse have but that isn't change for black people. and being positive into the future, the sign of change isn't when black people aren't being hung , it is when black peopel are less at the mercy of white terro which i argue most black people in the usa still are. yes, al sharpton, obama, clarence thomas are all well and safe , but that is the rarity like james forten, the average black person in the usa is still in danger of white terror and until that changes, no matter if the terror is being burned alive or raised rent to kick out , it is still white terror. The majority of black people is the key to determining the stateof the black populace in the usa, not the minority of black people from forten to the martha's vineyard folk to talented tenthers and historical black college presidents to lebron james and oprah winfrey and cornell west. and to a far lesser extent myself.

From the web to the world, the following are my comments in a post from Troy HIS ARTICLE https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/ MY COMMENTS https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83635 In all earnest, the web directory is the best model, it isn't just keywords relating to content but also the quality of the website. the web search does away with the quality standard. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83643 @admin 19 hours ago, admin said: Directories definitely had their time but the problem with them is they simply don’t scale. IT is interesting, I argue, the directory developers were not good programmers. Like many systems, from email to directories to large language models that are the basis for the commonly called AI the programmers were and are poor. Everything they create is speed based but not efficient based, andI do comprehend that working for the private sector with the investment firms constantly hounding for what they are owed aside the publicly traded mechanism who are filled with those constantly hounding for increased revenue, this falls upon programmers to be focused on speed over efficiency, sequentially the search engine is preferred over the directory. But I think the directories needed smarter algorithms. The question is why didn't web directories scale? The reason why is the web directories weren't designed to let their usage have a role to play in the categorization. For example, the internet was flooded with websites , from humans or non humans, at a high speed secondly, as the internet has global usage at all hours, sequentially having a manual categorization even with twenty four hour cycles will never keep up with the rate of creation, what you say is a failure to scale. But, i see it as a simply problem of categorixzation. They could had inputted the uncategorized websites in the directory in an expansive category designed to grow but not to be rated. So, all the websites online are in. Then, let the users of the directory dictate the quality rating. How so? for example, when someone types, an authors name, the website of the author will not be in the rated category if it was just put in a half hour before the query. but if it is in the unrated category, the directory can simply state it doesn't have a rated directory entry for the author and then display best search case, based on the index words for the website. And then if a user clicks it, it gets a positive search rating but not a quality rating. Thus the directory will have two segments, rated + unrated, the rated is curated, tested, proven, assured, grown manually. The unrated is grown programattically, but all of its entries are rated with the lowest value and only vary from each other by traffic usage, and when one reaches a certain quality of traffic it will be tested onto the rated segment. This way the scaling aspect you and other speak about happens while the quality of the directory isn't diminished. All it requires is a modulating algorithm which can be adjusted for various factors to qualify when one from the unrated can be brought into the rated. What is my final argument? yes, the internet has tons of many different websites and addresses but i argue, most of them or at least 99% of websites or webpages , do not warrant being placed into a rated directory, by quality of the page or website or the traffic to said site or page. But again, I Comprehend the larger problem with my strategic approach. search engine optimization from the search engines allows for two key financial aspects, one people can pay for better rating in the optimization and two the influence of low quality social media content on wealthy websites can push through search engine optimization. My directory system as i described has a manual system for the best content, and places the rest as available but ranked equally, no matter their quality which doesn't allow for businesses to pay for a better rating or position in the directory, and thus losses the financial avenue that the search engine optimization provides. 19 hours ago, admin said: AI did exactly the same thing., but at scale. Again, AI will gut the Internet. Steal from all types of content from creators, artists, writers, musicians, you name it monetize or and never compensate the original creators. I know artists who had work stolen by humans so the computer programs called ai, designed to scrape and use simply do it faster But, when you say monetize, you mean the humans or some humans are getting ai money. ai's don't actually monetize right? are you suggesting AI's have bank accounts? Even if AI's do, what do they do with their money? 19 hours ago, admin said: The bullshit lawsuits won’t do a damn thing to stem the tide. lawsuits aren't bullshit, don't knock the power of lawsuits and in modernity all countries including the china's and russia's of the world have legal systems even though many in the usa don't seem to think they do. The lawsuits may not manipulate the programs but they will manipulate the firms that made or operate the programs and that will lead to an interesting thing. This is why the AI firms want protection, they want protection because even if computer programs can't go to court, the humans who made them or their owners can and they can lose everything in court. Remember, the Social media firms got away with that nonsense, the federal government gave them a protection from lawsuit cause it was coming and i argue should had occurred. @ProfD 8 hours ago, ProfD said: The objective under capitalism is to make as much money as possible by any means necessary.😎 Yes, but I wish we all would also add that the usa is taking away the risk element. One part of fiscal capitalism is making money by nay means necessary The Other part and I Argue most important in modernity is the losing property or other valuables when one fails to make money. From 1990 to 2026 we have all witnessed the entire banking industry collapse, the entire real estate industry collapsed three times i think, the entire automotive industry collapsed, the airline industry hasn't recovered since pan am was lawsuited out of existence, the arms makes like boeing and lockheed martin are all bankrupt. All the major industries in the usa are bakrupt. the film industry and entertainment industry is bankrupt, thus all the mergers. Now all of these industries have been saved by discretionary policy but discretionary policy isn't fiscal capitalism. Discretionary policy as used in the usa isn't about fiscal capitalims but macroeconomics. And the usa is showing that regardless of fiscal capitalistic quality, since all of the industries in the usa have failed completely within my lifetime, a macroeconomic protectionism , in terms of bailouts/monetary injections or other similars , all supported by a militaristic quality , which the usa doesn't have the ability to extend, allows for negative fiscal capitalistic quality to be protected. yes, kill people for their land, enslave other people for cheapest labor... yes, by any means necessary. But what people miss today is the safety net. Unwarranted macroeconomic protectionism keeps the fiscal capitalistic activity in the usa organized, notice i didnt' say positive or negative, regardless of its fiscal capitalistic quality in the USA. to me Unwarranted Macroeconomic protectionism is the correct label for the usa today, to suggest the usa is acting as fiscal capitalistic I argue is unwarranted when all the industries have failed or are failing in modern memory. Fiscal capitalism isn't just making as much money as possible it is losing money when you fail to make money, it is others buying your assets when you go bankrupt. That is important you know. When black people were enslaved, whites in the usa went bankrupt and other whites would buy what other whites formerly owned. I just dont see how the industries in the usa are making money. I Argue they all are in the red, and are simply being propped up by welfare checks. Unwarranted Macroeconomic protectionism is keeping the organization, the haves and have nots, financial alignment of the various demographs consistent in the usa. But unwarranted macroeconomic protectionism is not fiscal capitalism. I argue it is a monarchic system ,and monarchic systems are not about money but military power. And human history proves that little countries can have far better fiscal capitalistic quality than bigger countries, ala holland next to its peers in europe, but those bigger peers are still stronger militaristically and that militaristic might has its own influence. But I repeat that power is not a symbol of fiscal capitalism , simply a symbol of militaristic power. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83650 @ProfD 3 hours ago, ProfD said: The economists know exactly what & how to keep the USA propped up. The government keeps printing money & moving the goal line on its debt. If any creditor decides to call in the markers, the USA has the military might to strongly suggest they take a hike.🤣😎 but this is my point, the economist dont, the fiscal capitalist have failed. Your suggesting the economist have value but I don't see any evidence of that. the macroeconomic proteciton that the government provides through the power of the military is the only potent part. For me, the military and the government are the real system. And if anything the government and military have the power to and need to demand a change that the fiscal capitalist clearly are unable to do on their own. the people you call economist are to me the true welfare mothers whites falsely claimed black women were. We both see how the usa is operates but you give value to the economist while I view the economist as a dysfunctional aspect that the government + military will have to eventually get rid of or change in potent ways. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83653 @ProfD 5 hours ago, ProfD said: Somewhere between the Federal Reserve playing with interest rates & the stock market turning folks into millionaires & billionaires, seems like aome fiscal capitalists are allowed to thrive & survive. I concur some/many are thriving or surviving but are they fiscal capitalist or simply nepo babies? Are they merely people who are inheriting a position of wealth. Many government officials are related to former government officials. many athletes are related to former athletes. 5 hours ago, ProfD said: The question is who or what is going to bring that house of cards to collapse.😎 the trillion dollar question. The one thing is certain is the usa military is the primary engine of this system, not fiscal capitalist or financial marketeers or government guidance or laws. and the usa military has a dual problem, it doesnt have the legal right to manipulate the government but clearly its role is the key to the usa's fianncial condition. to be blunt, the usa military can protect the usa while all the business [whole industries or individual firms] that the government bailed out in the last thirty years were allowed to go bankrupt and all their assets put up for auction. But as long as the military of the usa protects it but doesn't demand better fiscal capitalism or better government, the private sector + goveernment sector will continue their failing and bailing ways. And the usa military is looking more and more impotent in protecting international places. if the usa can't use its force to manipulate the world's governments they will force an action against the usa https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83685 @Troy 19 hours ago, Troy said: OK so who determines what is the "best" content? Who anoints them? Are they volunteers? Volunteerism does not scale and if they are paid the money must come from somewhere, then we are back to the same problem we are in now... I will restate what I wrote, the directory i suggest has two tiers , the top tier is manual, the bottom tier is programmed.. The top tier checks entries based on popularity fro teh bottom tier but only accepts based on a quality review. So the bottom tier is based purely on popularity done by computer program and with adding quality labels things that are highly viewed can still be given a low quality which will flesh out the bottom tier. 19 hours ago, Troy said: I dunno, but following your logic they can use the money to secure more resources and manipulate humans. Interesting, I don't see how you come to that destination from my logic but ok 19 hours ago, Troy said: Yes, you've made my point ;-) yes, the protections is why they got away BUT laws can change to and metoo has shown something else that people aren't thinking about in the future, laws may become more retroactive. in nature in the future which is uncommon for the usa, usa historically generates laws that dont allow retroactive application based on the heritage of whites wanting to get away with enslaving + terrorizing black people but... I ponder. 19 hours ago, Troy said: Hubris reflecting being raised in this country. But I guess it really depends on how long you think you will be around and what metric(s) you are basing you rankings. your point to measures is key, being a super power is a military distinction which is fully warranted by the usa, but the problem is when many people, and I add profd to this speak of superpower they tend to attach alot of other aspects that to me are unfounded, the usa is fiscally crap. it isn't planned well, the government is crap. the fiscal environment is the weakest power, the government is the weakest power, but the military is the sole superpower. And yes, like the roman empire whose last age capitoled in nova roma was quite long but was in truth based on their military strength which eventually waned, their government, their fiscal quality was negative that whole time. @ProfD 19 hours ago, ProfD said: My idea of collapse is the USA no longer being the most powerful nation on the planet. As a Super-Power, I do not foresee the USA sliding into 2nd or 3rd place within our lifetime.😎 the usa is the most powerful government in the college of human governments but only militaristically and that is what I keep trying to explain to you . fiscally the usa is done man. the fiscal environment in the usa is a bunch of welfare recipients who masquerade as free market capitalist, when in truth they are props for a government that is a welfare state with the military that allows the ledger dysfunction to be righted by non fiscal capitalistic means. And to superpowerdom the usa has a deeper problem, china doesn't want to be one, nor does the european union. The usa has wanted china to have a war for the top chair but china realizes, correctly, that being second is better than first. the chinese government is the government no other government in humanity can do without, including the usa, which the usa itself stupidly but expectedly as a white country set up. But, looking at the usa, why would china want to be number 1? to get into wars? china already has control over its economy, even russia has a level of control over itself that is superior to what any other country in europe has. China has a space station all on its own, the usa has never had a space station all on its own. the iss is a joint project between russia and the usa. This is why the isolationist movement is growing in the usa, even though the internalization movement is growing alongside it in the usa. because of modern international financial activity, you don't need to be first to be ahead financially, and the usa proves being the global law enforcer just means a ton of resources spent that give nothing in return really. the afgahn war, the iraq war, the vietnam war, the ...iran war... all these wars are very costly. yes, the arms dealers love it, but overall none of these wars helped the domestic financial situation in the usa to a wide effect. Vietnam I argue the usa has never recovered from. yes, the usa has gone on but, I don't think the usa has ever actually helped any country it has gone in similarly since vietnam. Germany aside western europe and japan post world war two, because of the soviet union were rebuilt and prospered by the usa. south korea was made by the usa post korean war but south korea prospered by the usa. but vietnam onwards, all are horror stories. HAiti/Venezuela/Colombia/Iran/Afghanistan/Egypt- with the coups from the usa giving the country to its generals/IRan... why would china want to be like the usa. China does business with governments all over the world but they are not their bullies. It isn't china's fault that many, more honestly most, governments throughout humanity are functionally poor. The only place that chine contest is Taiwan and if you know your history the truth is Taiwan should be a part of china proper. Chiang kai shek fled to formosa at the end of a war between chinese peoples over the future of china. Taiwan is merely like hong kong or macau , two other places that were always chinese but through the international environment were allowed to act foreign from china. But, china hasn't wasted time in wars all over the world or in schemes destroying countries all over the world. YUgoslavia is the usa's fault, its dissolution and all of its parts chaos, s the usa's fault. Why would any intelligent country, remember, china has been led by my fellow engineers not lawyers since the 1980s, want to be doing what the usa does? silly . The history of empire's shows clearly most empires spend their last phase of life all military and nothing else. The usa clearly is in that phase. IF anything china should be frightened to be number 1 cause they will eventually share the fate of all other empires. https://aalbc.com/tc/topic/12912-a-search-engine-you-have-to-consider/#findComment-83744 @Pioneer1 On 10/9/2026 at 7:07 PM, Pioneer1 said: China is highly unlikely to become a superpower like the United State for a very major reason: they don't have US One of the reasons America is so popular isn't just because of her military superiority but she also leads to world in ENTERTAINMENT and establishes the SOCIAL STANDARDS for each generation around the globe. Everybody wants to copy Americans in style and mannerisms. ....and guess where America GETS her style and mannerisms....lol. Take us out of the equation and America would be just a plain vanilla country like Germany or Norway. Plain vanilla is "nice" if you're in the mood for it. But it's not going to stir your appetite for it....lol. Plain Vanilla - by Craig Barker - The Barchive If you consider the Latinos and Asians still left....it would be like sprinkling a few nuts and cinnamon on it to give it some flavor, lol. Well interesting, maybe because china doesn't have Black folks, specifically descended of enslaved black folk, they will be better off. All in nature is a balance. I have always argued Black aMericans made the usa. The NAtive american's world was destroyed and its tomb is what the usa is made on. White americans made the usa. But Black Americans made the modern usa by so many black people who had been enslaved to whites making the choice, albiet with so much white pressure, to become Statian/ of the UsA/ commonly called American.[ even though canada to argentina is america] Black American Descended of Esnlaved folk showed a people whose condition was enslaved to whites before the usa was founded in 1492 through the founding of usa in 1776 and through the war between the states when it became illegal while still functional through the 1960s when Alice plus her entire family plus other black peoplewho didn't get to have their stories known were enslaved to whites a few years before I have a dream speech, till 1980 when I argue slavery truly ended., had so many , not all , not nat turner, not marcus garvey, not black people whose spirits were annihilated by white terror, who embraced the usa no matter what, no matter white terror, no matter their condition. The example of Black DOSers showed all the individuals around the world that the usa is a country that they can thrive in becasue of enslaved blacks and their descendednts can align with the country that enslaved them, that terorized them while also aligning with the people who terroized them, then anyone else can. I rephase simply, the multiracial peace that exist in the usa was born from the choices Black DOSers made, including choices against Blacks who wanted to kill whites or the usa itself. And that multiracial peace has made the usa powerful. It has given the usa a populace of agents who by default undermine all the countries they come from. But in parallel, Black DOSers don't have anything as a people. Not one city in the usa is dominated by Black DOSers. Not one industry in the USA is dominated by Black DOser.s Blacks don't dominate entertainment because we have never been the primary owners of the entertainment industry and the reason why isn't laziness but simple white power. the literary/film/music industries as they are known today , all started in the 1800s and at that time, blacks were not allowed to own much of anything by whites, the rest is financial entrpy , if one community owns most of everything today, absent war, they will own most of everything tomorrow. and yes, white jews are white. white latinos are white. white asians are white. women are white. Maybe not having a populace like Black Americans is to china's benefit. What benefit is multiculturalism really? Has multiculturalism aided whites in their white supremacy in the UA? I argue no. The wealth of blacks, the welath of the mixed bloods/ mulatos and others, all is wealth in the past white people would had owned by way of power. Has multiculturalism adied blacks in the usa? what do blacks have as a community? nothing. yes, individual blacks are billionaires and individual blacks are big elected representative sand individual blacks cry that black people don't do enough constantly, but the truth is, living aside whites is why blacks have nothing. from 1492 to 2026 black people have never been free of whites in the usa, and i argue, historical odds say blacks will never have great growth aside whites in the usa. The proof is in every single thing black people have done positive be killed or manipulated into anti black functio by whties over time in the usa. Is multiculturalism good for the government in the usa? i argue no. the government of the usa in 2026 has more multiversity than any time before and anywhere in humanity while the government of the usa is unable to do anything. and the reason isn't negative but truth. all the peoples in the usa, starting with the native american , need things that the others dont need or can't allow, sequentially, no community is truly bettered, merely handed nonsense by elected officials who look like them who know nothing will happen. I am 100% certain if the usa was 99% native american or 99% white or 99% black it would have a smooth running government. Governments throughout humanity historically show multiracial bodies are terrible for governments, they always break down because th epeople sare nnot the same and individualism has limits. the three hundred and fity million people in the usa are not going to act as individuals, some will but not most. lastly, the multiculturalism doesn't help business. the biases amongst various peoples manipulates their strategies to harm other peoples which makes terrible businesse.s Again, the banks are trying to keep white peoples money no matter white while maintain the growth of non white while trying to make it where no ones money goes away, it is financially dysfunctional but they do it , because they are trying to serve various communities. the real estate industry is the same as the banks, trying to maintain wealth for old white owners even when not earned while also trying to embrace the constant stream of new black owners who are more firghtful of losing money than anyone. If anything the usa proves the han chinese stance towards the ugyars plus tibetans is smart . The usa multiculturalism may create many little cultural waves that are valuable in media, but with modern technology, they can be exposed and then copied as they have been since the 1950s, by countries, like the nordic european, like japan and korea, who are nearly monoracial countries who don't have to bnother with multiracial issues. I think China is better off by not having a minority populace in its ranks that has fought to earn respect. History shows multiracial representation in government does not work. If you disagree show me where? the usa is terrible governmentally, just becuse the military keeps it safe doesnt mean it is run well. the roman empire fell similarly, in the end, rejecting the multicultural culture or allowance it had to be more rigid. 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