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Promised Land (lemmy.world)

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[-] KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com 199 points 2 weeks ago

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 66 points 2 weeks ago

Every 50 bison they killed they celebrated a bisontennial.

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 26 points 2 weeks 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 16 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 62 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 32 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 52 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] harmsy@lemmy.world 34 points 2 weeks ago

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

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[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks 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 44 points 2 weeks ago
[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 12 points 2 weeks ago

It's kind of disingenuous.

It portrays Orthodox Jewishness as being responsible for genocidal Zionism when Orthodox Jewishness has pretty much always been vehemently critical of both Zionism and the creation of Israel.

The Jewish Zionists that perpetrated the Nakba looked no different than their fellow Europeans.

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[-] eldavi@lemmy.ml 10 points 2 weeks ago
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[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 25 points 2 weeks ago

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

[-] Iapar@feddit.org 13 points 2 weeks ago

I am kind of annoyed by the ismnisms lately.

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[-] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 19 points 2 weeks ago

The notion of a "promised land" is a lie humans tell to themselves to monopolise the resources we all share with all living things.

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[-] doggle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 19 points 2 weeks 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 11 points 2 weeks 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.

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this post was submitted on 27 Sep 2024
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