• finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    15 hours ago

    The English only momentarily stopping, in order to restrict the growing power and authority of companies in the new world, a brutal campaign of open warfare and enslavement of the mainland natives does not excuse the 170 years prior.

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      15 hours ago

      The English only momentarily stopping

      Historically inaccurate.

      does not excuse the 170 years prior

      Who is holding this up as an excuse? You’re arguing the settlers who would shoot a British Officer purely for the privilege of shooting the American Native standing behind him are somehow providing these native peoples a social benefit.

      I don’t think you’re a rational person worth arguing with.

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        11 hours ago

        The native standing behind the british officer, you’re demented for believing such garbage. Manifest Destiny would have prevailed regardless of the Colonies subservience to the crown.

        Autboritarian regimes are a much crueler and worse form of government.