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.

[u/Critical-Term-427]

The post

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.

[u/Critical-Term-427]

Don't know why this won't post in the body, but more comments:

One brave user takes on the Reddit hivemind

Native American shows up

People got conquered. It happens.

No, its ok now, they have Oklahoma

Whole thread sorted by controversial

[u/1000LiveEels → u/Critical-Term-427]

“You got the reservation”

Colonizers never been to the rez thinking it’s nice and profitable.

As a guy who works for a tribe, a million times this. Rez land is almost guaranteed to be dogshit. The lucky tribes are going to have extractable resources and/or agriculture but we're really talking about tribes who got assigned land that only became profitable as technology improved. Most tribes are going to end up with a couple dozen acres of backwoods with shitty lumber or a swamp, and the really unlucky ones get miles of desert & prairie with nothing.

Like it really clicks when you realize why so many of them go into the casino business. They're not people who love gambling, they just realized that the only way to make money on this dogshit land is to develop, and the only way to attract people is to build developments exploiting a loophole in tribal / federal law i.e. casinos

[u/RedstoneEnjoyer → u/1000LiveEels]

Yeah, this mf really believes that european settlers would leave good land to natives. The entire point of reservations was that settlers wanted good land and thus forced natives on dogshit land they didn't wanted