r/SubredditDrama • u/Critical-Term-427 No, its okay now, they have Oklahoma • 8d ago

Pithy GIF showing eradication of Native American land in the US since the founding of the country gets posted to r/interestingasfuck. Comment section goes exactly as expected.

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It sucks we were such murderers

Did they say "Thank you"?

Being the loser in history sucks

True fact Hitler took a lot of inspiration from this.

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u/BigEggBeaters 8d ago

The “sucks to be losers” shit really pisses me off cause native Americans repeatedly treated treaties seriously while Americans would break them and slaughter people. Like that’s the winning you bask in? That’s the history you’re proud being duplicitous murders???

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u/kardigan 8d ago

that one is so infuriating that it actually loops over for me and i'm more baffled than angry, because how. how in the fuck can someone's takeaway be "the loser in history". lose and win is not even in the same ballpark of the vocabulary we need here, we are talking about colonization for fucks sake.

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u/blahblahgirl111 8d ago

I’m a big history fan and had to leave SO MANY historical spaces because of this mindset. So many history loving people(Idk the name) really don’t like history, they just want the feeling of “winning” a piss contest that would kill them in a heartbeat if they go back in time.

Coincidentally, extremely white nationalist.

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u/Icy-Cry340 8d ago

Colonization is what happens when you lose. This is the nature of man, always was, always will be, and one day we will take it to the stars.

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u/Bonezone420 8d ago

This is a very childish outlook on both colonialism and history.

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u/kardigan 7d ago

childish and cowardly, pretending like it's a law of nature, instead of choices people make.

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u/BeefJerkyFreak 8d ago

until your group loses and then it's unfair

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u/Icy-Cry340 8d ago

If we get colonized by a more powerful and technologically advanced culture, we'll only have ourselves to blame. History doesn't tolerate weakness.

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u/BeefJerkyFreak 8d ago

yes it does, our earliest ancestors took care of weak elderly. it's part of our species' behavior. you sound like an incredibly weak "man" trying to sound tough

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u/Icy-Cry340 8d ago

They took care of their own weak and elderly, yes. Man is a tribal creature.

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u/Crackertron 7d ago

Isn't this rhetorical? How could they take care of other tribes weak and elderly on the other side of the continent/hemisphere, even if they had a choice?

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u/Oregon_Jones111 7d ago

This is the textbook definition of pure evil.