• Cows Look Like Maps@sh.itjust.worksOP
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    7 days ago

    The US have always been the bad guys. Even independence was about being able to do more genocide and land stealing without the British getting in the way.

    Canada also has a brutal history of both slavery and genocide.

    Accepting that is the first step to overcoming systemic racism and building communities that we can all thrive in.

    • Tar_Alcaran@sh.itjust.works
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      6 days ago

      The US war of independence started mostly because super rich shipowners didn’t like the idea of tea not having to be transported to London first, but could come directly from India and Indonesia.

      That would save a ton of money for the American colonists, but it would cut out all those wealthy shipowners (and smugglers) who ran the London-America routes.

      So they lied to the people do their dirty work for them.

    • hurtn@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      7 days ago

      you be the first to give up your land and give it back to the Indians… but u wont :)