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[–] vegafjord@freeradical.zone 5 points 6 months ago

@Confidant6198 That's why I like to call them the Genocidal Regimes of America.

[–] Thepotholeman@lemmy.ca 4 points 6 months ago

I mean sure, the ruling men of more then a century ago by our standards were terrible people. But goddamn teddy Roosevelt was a man fighting for shit you're still fighting for today and hell he got you closer to it then compared to you now.... You can lump him in with slave owners and child rapists FFS.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 5 points 6 months ago

The Republican Party was predicated on continuous western expansion. It was the successor to the Free Soil Party in the west and what was left of the Whigs in the East.

That necessarily meant seizing more land from American Natives and distributing it to Settlers. Much of the Union Army, before and after the Civil War, was focused on decimating the Native population and securing new tracks of free land for settlers. Lincoln inherited that mandate when he took office and pursued it as zealously as any Republican before or since.

[–] Theonetheycall1845@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Can someone tell me more about Washington? Wiki says he purchased the teeth from slaves. I'm sure that's not entirely true, or is it?

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