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Thank you for posting this. My dad who passed away a few years ago was in the 2nd world war and I was happy to see before he died that the doctor at the hospital when finding out he was a veteran made a few calls and got him into a beautiful hospice when he died with dignity with family around. I'm so proud of him and my grandfather who bore the scars of WW1 on his face.

Sadly if we ever faced that again we'd loose because you'd be hard pressed to find young people willing to die for their country.

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Let you not forget that "Canadian's" stole all of the above from the native brown people.

And nothing has changed.

Happy supremacist White dude day!

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Lol our prime minister was literally my teacher in middle school here in BC back in the late 90s.

Here he is, making things right again:

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And the native tribe the white man stole it from stole it from another tribe, which stole it from another tribe that stole it from another tribe. The same goes for Africa, every country/tribe/kingdom in Africa was conquered and killed by another country/tribe/kingdom in Africa 100 times over.

People have been killing each other and taking each other's land everywhere in the world, long before the white man came to any of those places. Every piece of land used to belong to someone else and this has been happening since before recorded history, and will continue to happen in the future.

my grandfather was in WW1. in the trenches, he never talked about it

I did a moment of silence yesterday for 11/11

my mom is Mi'kmaq, the Brits in Canada put a bounty on the scalps of my ancestors. so I don't consider them to be on the side of good exactly

he certainly loves playing dress-up

I'd tell your dumb ass to move back to Africa but we know you won't! :1orglaugh

Yo big fat black Momma!

He knows.. he only cares if the white man did it because he has a white man inferiority complex.

that video is not accurate. but at least demonstrates that Saudi Arabia is part of Africa. but yeah, totally inaccurate

one of my degrees is African Studies so have a bit of knowledge on this topic. that video is racist as hell actually. source knowledge Encyclopedia Britannica? always trust the Euro version of truth about other continents :upsidedow

Well I guess when you have a written language you can write the books, no?

And he's right...people have been murdering, raping enslaving, and pillaging for eons yet they just want to cry about white people doing it. If an alien landed here for a week they'd think white's were responsible for all the woes in the world...which is the complete opposite. Take away Europeans / European Americans inventions and gifts to mankind and you'll be back in the stone age with a lifespan of 25.

half my family comes from an oral culture and they def lived past 25. I have Crohn's and Colitis and Celiac (my stomach hates me) and I take Native herbs as meds, they work. no pharma for me. oral cultures ftw

just because people don't understand something doesn't mean it's not true

I have often thought about this, being 1/16 Apache myself. The whole kill the Injuns thing really just comes down to technology. No written languages, no guns, no machinery of any kind...the Indians were basically one step above primitives. So primitives face a superior technological force. What was going to happen? What has happened throughout history.

When or where in human history has a superior technological and military force voluntarily lived side-by-side in peace with primitives? Even the Roman Empire, who tended to leave native peoples alone as long as they paid their tribute to Rome, still upgraded the civilizations and 'Romanized' them via roads, etc. What were the Colonists and early Americans supposed to do with the indian populations? Hmmm?

Sad, tragic amoral - all true. But inevitable nonetheless.

Wait, what?

A video showing how the land claims of various areas changed over the last 2500 years is racist? What exactly is racist about it? Honestly to god, i'm curious, because I'm not seeing anything even remotely racist there at all. It shows how kingdoms rose and fell. The European one is of course more accurate because much of the African one isn't even covered due to lack of written language in those areas or records from those areas. There could have been entire civilizations there that were destroyed that had written language and have vanished without a trace. This happened in Europe too - there was a whole Slavic religion and culture from which much of the records were destroyed by the Christians.

I really don't see how that video is racist or even why you are making villains of the Europeans. Even the African slave trade by could not have been done without the help of Africans. Europeans were not catching Africans in nets. African tribes were capturing slaves from their rival tribes and trading them to the Europeans for goods, such as guns - which they proceeding to use to capture more slaves and gain an advantage. African tribes made slaves from their conquests for thousands of years before the first European landed on that continent. Had the white man never came to Africa, someone in Africa would have invented black powder sooner or later and they'd still have slavery.

Your Mi'kmaq ancestors also didn't spawn in North America out of thin air. Someone else had that land before them, and they conquered them. There are probably hundreds of Indian tribes that were lost to time, some undoubtedly butchered by them.

The white man is not inherently evil, despite what Netflix might tell you. Had the Mi'kmaq invented or acquired black powder, and large transatlantic ships before the Europeans, all of Europe would be speaking their language.

The Europeans conquered native americans because they had gunpowder. They traded these guns and gunpowder to the natives, who then proceeded to conquer the land of other tribes who were still using bows and arrows. Given enough time, one of these tribes would have invented guns too. Please do not blame everything bad in the world on the white man - every civilization other then maybe some desert dwelling nomads had the same opportunity to advance their technology.

Gunpowder was not beamed down to Europe by space aliens with instructions to kill Africans or Indians. It can be made from naturally occurring substances, to which every civilization since the dawn of time has had access to. Everyone had equal chance to invent everything. I think it was discovered in China and probably traded via the silk road. China was just lucky enough to have found it first.

At the end of the day, like it or not - Every single one of us is alive right now because our ancestors managed to slaughter and fuck their way to the top in their region.

@OneHungLo You're wrong on the 25 years - the lower average lifespan in ancient times was due to very high child mortality. If you managed to get past around 5 years old you lived around the same as now.

Just when I thought I've finally seen the stupidest shit on the internet, here you come and set the bar even lower.

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Anyone seen Mark Prince?

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For someone that lives in the USA you are one Cheeky YO MOMA :1orglaugh
Do you want to start a discussion about how much USA stole from other countries they invade ?

Can't wait for the memorial Days thread popin up on GFY, Monday May 30, 2022 ... I will be around. :winkwink:

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Did i just say Cheeky?

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Well my point still stands. Who do you think created the medical and technological breakthroughs that lowered that child mortality? Yup, the evil white man.

actually in Canada it was the opposite. they got a boner killing Native kids in residential schools. you have no idea how hard my mom had to fight to keep the social workers from stealing her younger sisters. my mom and grandma (my Nanny) worked together and succeeded. but it was a fight. those mass graves are something we knew existed for years. the skeletons were just proof

Ok but most of these people that did that are dead and gone. Do you really hold a grudge against people that had nothing to do with that because of the color of their skin?

Cue CurrentlySober . . .


Your stomach is your second brain (like the penis is to us men). Ferments are your best friends (no matter how hard you shit yourself you'll eventually feel much better after consuming them.)

It's like going up to a Japanese 3 year old and blaming them for pearl harbor :2 cents:

of course not. I don't know how many times I have to say I love my white dad and have white friends. I consider you a friend ffs. same with Howdy and Saraettah and his wife and a bunch of other peeps. does talking about the history of my family make me racist? I would hope not

and the last residential school closed in the 1990's. not exactly ancient history

but yeah,, 11/11 I def did my own personal moment of silence for all who have served. including Romeo Dallaire. that 'peace keeping' mission in Rwanda in 94 with no peace to keep broke his brain. a tremendous sacrifice, like all the others from other wars. we need to be better humans and increase the peace

the only things that work for me are bissy tea (kola nut) and peppermint tea

every pharma drug I've ever been prescribed just makes things worse