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That's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbook (lemmy.world)
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[–] kubica@fedia.io 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)

The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Settler: I'll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you'll be rich.

Native: what are these green papers

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It probably wasn't green at the time since ya know the US didn't exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

Also, this was Canada.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Damn, I completely missed that XD