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Seems factual | “Native Americans” were just as violent as their European conquerors. They just had less technology. | image tagged in change my mind,politics lol,memes | made w/ Imgflip meme maker
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7 ups, 4d
Pre-contact, tribes like the Comanche and Iroquois built empires through brutal warfare, raiding, and displacement, often with ritualized torture or scalping as cultural norms. The Apache, for instance, terrorized rivals long before Europeans showed up. Europeans, though, brought industrialized violence—guns, steel, and disease—plus a mindset of total conquest, like Cortés toppling the Aztecs or the English massacring the Pequot in 1637. Native violence was often localized and tribal; European violence was systematic and scalable. Data’s sparse, but archaeological evidence of mass graves (e.g., Crow Creek, 1325) shows Native bloodshed rivaled Europe’s feudal wars. Both were violent—Europeans just had better tech and bigger ambitions.
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The english committed the greatest genocide known to date in America. Hitler couldn't even come close to them.
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Open a history book. It was the Spanish that brought the diseases that killed 80% of the natives, not the English. When the Jamestown folks arrived they found many empty villages.
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History is different depending on who tells it. Today's most honest versions of events are different from what was told 100 years ago.

Both the Spanish and the English committed abuses of many kinds.

The English were worse, clearing the area of ​​indigenous people, deceiving the natives with false peace agreements, and systematically committing genocide before their independence from the English empire.

Meanwhile, the Spanish were the opposite, committing some acts of genocide after they became independent from the Spanish empire. The Creoles committed genocide.

By that time, most natives had already genetically mixed with the Spanish, which is why Spanish-speaking countries have massive indigenous traits.
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They took land from each other and had brutal wars and brutally massacred each other.

And btw, they weren't from here either.

You need a history lesson.
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I bet you cant say the 7th president without searching
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Bet you can't recite the Bill of Rights without looking them up.

🙄 Gotcha trivia is meaningless and has zero correlation to comprehension.
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1) Free Speech
2) Bare arms
3) Quartering Troops
4) Warrant to search houses
5) Remain silent
6) Speedy Trial
7) Jury
8)State rights
9) I forgot
10)I forgot again
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Oh dangit 8 was Unusual punishments
(searched)
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Ok I will try
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We could have shared. We still do.
I guess all the ones that wouldn't share then, made a choice.
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Oh my god what are you doing with your life?
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They were nomadic.

Literally occupied, but not owned.

Research is your friend.
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WE TOOK THE LAND THAT THEY OWNED
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Did they have a receipt?
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It is shared. they can move to any part of it they please.
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Would you like it if your neighbor took your land, made you live in the basement and when you fought back 200 years later people make fun of you for imgflip points
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That's breaking established law.

what laws did the colonies break?
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Who says u need laws?
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As it has happened throughout history. Every ethnic group has been displaced by another at some point in time. You claim to be a Saxon — your people displaced Celts in Britain, as well as various Germanic tribes in Saxony.
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Read my profile...
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Im not a saxon
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“Native Americans” were just as violent as their European conquerors. They just had less technology.