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Promised Land (lemmy.world)

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[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 13 points 15 hours ago

I've met a guy who no shit said this to me as if it was a justification for Israel's actions in Gaza.

[-] IndustryStandard@lemmy.world 4 points 9 hours ago

Anyone mentioning the phrase "3000" years ago is saying it. The Zionist movement is less than 150 years old. The rest of that history is made up.

[-] Mwa@lemm.ee 1 points 3 minutes ago

And from what I heard when palestine was occupied by British they put alot of people who want this land (take this with a grain of salt I found this in a discord server)

[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 28 points 19 hours ago

It’s just greed. They throw in god’s name to relieve themselves of any personal responsibility.

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 12 points 16 hours ago

They also throw in God's name to get the religious rubes on board.

fun fact.

The US army gave people ammunition for free if it was used to kill bison for a period of time.

Bison almost went extinct.

Bison were a source of food for the natives.

I love american history!

[-] craftyindividual@lemm.ee 40 points 22 hours ago

Every 50 bison they killed they celebrated a bisontennial.

[-] jaybone@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago
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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 20 points 22 hours ago

The official reason was the Bison herds were capable of destroying the fields of entire farms. We never stopped to ask if we should have been farming there in the first place.

[-] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 7 points 21 hours ago

I think they did stop to ask, and the answer they gave themselves was "yes".

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[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 41 points 23 hours ago

Ok. Native here. Get out, both of you.

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 26 points 22 hours ago

If I thought some other place would take me, I would.

[-] LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago* (last edited 1 hour ago)

The number of "100% native" people in the U.S. is likely 0. The idea of people leaving if they weren't from here goes back forever, everywhere. Eventually it's just a debate of if we are all from Africa or not.

"Go back to being a neanderthal dweeb!"

... Sadly, acceptance and growth are harder than resentment. And most of the time we resent the wrong people.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 13 points 22 hours ago

Go back to Ireland/Scotland? Sure. I need to bring news of what fun things Americans can do with potatoes back to the homeland anyways.

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[-] evroid@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago
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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 24 points 1 day ago

I think at this stage we can just call manifest destiny "Americanism."

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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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