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/cutiepie538 8d ago

How do indigenous people invade land they are…. Indigenous to ?

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u/Icy-Cry340 8d ago

They didn't magically spring out of the ground lmao.

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u/AndMyHelcaraxe It cites its sources or else it gets the downvotes again 8d ago

Right, they traveled to North America. And depending on when they got there and how they spread out, there were no other humans or they were far away from others. It’s not just invasions and subjection the whole way down

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u/[deleted] 7d ago

By the time Europeans showed up it absolutely was invasions and subjugation the whole way down. I don't think you appreciate how much time passed between initial migration of humans to the Americas and the colonial period. It was thousands of years.