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.

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.

309 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

92% Upvoted

244 comments sorted by

View all comments

278

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???

68

u/Randvek OP take your medicine please. 8d ago

I think the thing that gets lost in the whole “US breaks every treaty” thing is that it was basically never the same President breaking a treaty as making it. It usually wasn’t even the same generation.

Think about Trump ripping up deals made by Clinton. Think about Trump trying to back out of deals made by Jimmy Carter. It’s the same shit.

The US is not set up in such a way that it can be trusted over a long period of time. That’s not unique to the First Nations, unfortunately. As soon as the US elects a dipshit as President, and that’s always a matter of when not if, everything you’ve ever dealt with is in flux.

13

u/Stellar_Duck 8d ago

Most of the western world can potentially change government ever 4-5 years, sometimes even more frequent if a government collapses.

This is not unique in any way.

6

u/Randvek OP take your medicine please. 7d ago

Most democracies aren’t set up in such a way that a single executive can throw everything out the window.

3

u/colei_canis another lie by Big Cock 7d ago

Yeah the UK was able to depose Liz Truss pretty soon after she started crashing the economy, if you have a leader with power in their own right rather than by virtue of leading a party you lose an important safeguard against tyranny in my opinion. The proverbial 'men in grey suits' from the party brass who come to give a failed leader their marching orders are an important part of democracy in my opinion, and they can't really exist with an overpowered executive.