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[–] [email protected] 197 points 6 days ago (7 children)

fun fact.

The US army gave people ammunition for free if it was used to kill bison for a period of time.

Bison almost went extinct.

Bison were a source of food for the natives.

I love american history!

[–] [email protected] 64 points 6 days ago (6 children)

Every 50 bison they killed they celebrated a bisontennial.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago
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[–] [email protected] 28 points 6 days ago (8 children)

The official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think they did stop to ask, and the answer they gave themselves was "yes".

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 5 days ago

The notion of a "promised land" is a lie humans tell to themselves to monopolise the resources we all share with all living things.

[–] [email protected] 58 points 6 days ago (1 children)

It’s just greed. They throw in god’s name to relieve themselves of any personal responsibility.

[–] zarkanian 31 points 6 days ago

They also throw in God's name to get the religious rubes on board.

[–] [email protected] 50 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Ok. Native here. Get out, both of you.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 6 days ago (1 children)

If I thought some other place would take me, I would.

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[–] [email protected] 18 points 6 days ago (4 children)

Go back to Ireland/Scotland? Sure. I need to bring news of what fun things Americans can do with potatoes back to the homeland anyways.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 days ago (10 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

It's kind of disingenuous.

It portrays Orthodox Jewishness as being responsible for genocidal Zionism when Orthodox Jewishness has pretty much always been vehemently critical of both Zionism and the creation of Israel.

The Jewish Zionists that perpetrated the Nakba looked no different than their fellow Europeans.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I've met a guy who no shit said this to me as if it was a justification for Israel's actions in Gaza.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Anyone mentioning the phrase "3000" years ago is saying it. The Zionist movement is less than 150 years old. The rest of that history is made up.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 6 days ago (7 children)

I think at this stage we can just call manifest destiny "Americanism."

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago

So, if they kill in the name of God, why aren't we calling them "terrorists" by now like we do with any other religious group, i.e. muslims ... or ... mhhhm... or.. wait... do we call anyone else terrorists, besides muslims?

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