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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Elon repeatedly claimed he was not doing the Nazi salute, but even his own technology hid his photo as containing graphic content 😂🤣. Mr Free Speech’s own proprietary AI on his own app blocked him

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Do we want to live under a government capable of knowing where we are, even when we leave our technology at home? Can they track our phones already? What about when the person who will soon own satellites that can reach every inch of the globe has access to realize his world conquest aspirations?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This technology could be used to target and track anyone who dissents or even specific demographic groups— which is not ideal when we have an incumbent President with authoritarian aspirations.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

This all demonstrates that we are living in a surveillance state with cameras everywhere that the government can access and technology that will automatically identify people. What’s to stop them from using those to monitor anyone at any time?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Also, does anyone else feel deeply unsettled by the fact that law enforcement are celebrating that with a grainy partial face photo, facial recognition software, and a network of cameras all over the country, will alert law enforcement when a facial match is electronically identified?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

How is that different from private insurance refusing to approve treatment for someone whose doctor deems that treatment medically necessary? Especially when those people are paying them?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

What if a school crossing guard didn’t halt oncoming traffic while children were crossing? What if his justification was that the flashing children’s crossing signs should have been enough to prevent the children from being hit by cars?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Would firefighters be penalized for pulling up to a house that’s burning with people inside without even turning on the hose? What if the firefighters said they didn’t feel the family had followed the necessary precautions or hadn’t tried hard enough to extinguish the fire themselves?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Would a lifeguard at a country club’s private pool be charged with murder if they refused to throw a drowning member a life ring or a rope? What if the justification for refusing was that the lifeguard didn’t feel like getting out of their chair?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

Raise your hand if you think this much energy would be spent trying to track someone who shot you.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

So, yes. I’m writing a coal camp Melungeon love story, in the vernacular. Flirting happens when a girl tells a boy she’s glad he’s a bastard because he ain’t got no daddy to make him cut his hair. ❤️‍🩹

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

You can watch the videos on YouTube of the space x launch

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

I took a screenshot of a news report. It’s not AI

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Because the Bible is his favorite book, all journalists should frame all questions for Trump in King James Version vernacular.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I took a screenshot of the space x launch. But for real… Who is this? Because this ain’t Trump. That don’t even look like hair. Looks like a Chucky wig. Looks like Mr. Doubtfire. This whole season of reality is like a big gaslighting, crazy-making circus. Seriously. Is this even Trump?

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

RFK talked about creating “healing farms” for people with addiction to avoid prison by farming organic food with no access to technology— in other words, being entirely isolated so they could be “reparented.” Sounds like big daddy coal and convict leasing revisited.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

At the big pre-election Turning Point rally, Tucker Carlson used a Daddy punishing a “hormone addled” teen girl analogy. She had to get a “vigorous spanking” because “Daddy comes home, and he’s pissed.”

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

“Crimes” were for things like vagrancy, loitering, trespassing, and congregating in groups of three or more. We will see all of this come back around soon, and it’s already started.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

They owned the privatized police. Convict leasing was advertised as a way to help aimless, bored people with no motivation to stay out of crime learn a skill for a trade. In reality, it was a perpetuation of slavery that for many years was the main revenue for Southern states.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

They controlled the entertainment, the sports leagues, and even the currency— which could only be spent at company-owned locations. They set the prices of everything and the pay to keep workers unable to stop struggling. They owned the homes, and getting injured meant instant eviction.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

They used churches led by hired propagandists who used the pulpit to spread nationalism, influence against labor organizing, and sow division. They hired the klan and other groups to sow division and intimidate people into staying docile and loyal to the company.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Leading up to the election, I made a lot of posts about how authoritarianism looks in America. It’s already been done in coal camps. They used “day schools,” the predecessor to residential schools, to prepare children to work the mines, fields, and railroads.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

In the coal camps, mine operators had total control of everything— housing, the currency (they did not pay workers with the US dollar), the entertainment, the mandatory churches, the media, the brutal day schools… everything. This is called corporate paternalism.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Like moonshining. Sharecropping was the main way convict leasing was used in the Deep South, but up in the Appalachian South and Central Appalachia, it was coal mining.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Especially vulnerable were Melungeons, Creole, Redbones, & other mixed-ethnic groups who had been trying to survive outside of systems that wouldn’t allow them to integrate but hated them for not integrating. They spent their lives trying to find ways to afford living— which were then made illegal.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Just like other traps that begin with racism, some white people were also vulnerable to these traps— especially those who opposed the politics of racism in the South.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Of course, if no one will hire you and you start with no home, you are “vagrant.” Arrest records for many people forced into this system were simply blank, listing no crime at all.

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Terra Vance - Marked Melungeon @markedmelungeon.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

This image is a picture of people working an organic farm under the convict leasing system. After slavery was abolished, the South was big mad. So, they started arresting (mostly Black men) for things like vagrancy and loitering.

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