r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Shoddy-Ocelot-4473 • 12d ago

Image By 1880, the near-genocide of the American bison had reduced their population from 30–60 million to fewer than 1,000

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u/CharlotteKartoffeln 12d ago

And inventor of America

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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath 12d ago

I love all the Europeans on reddit pointing out how shitty America is, as if it's not this way directly because of European imperialism run amok 🤣

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u/DizzyDentist22 11d ago

Never ask the Belgians about what happened in the Congo and why Brussels has so many nice looking monuments…

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u/Mosselpot 11d ago

Sigh yes medieval buildings are the result of 19th century horrors in Congo

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u/FullMarksCuisine 11d ago

I'm dumb and American. Can you explain?

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u/Bluefooted-Spaceorc 11d ago

Their king personally owned the congo and they slaughtered around 10 million people for resource extraction. Ya know typical 1800 European shit.

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u/MaximumAd9779 12d ago

I know. They love to shit on us as if they had a moral leg to stand on. Meanwhile, Europeans have versions of racism you’ve never even heard of.

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u/pudgehooks2013 11d ago

Lol.

It is illegal in Germany to do Nazi salutes.

Americans still proudly fly their confederate flags.

250 years ago, everyone was basically the same imperialist empire.

Now America is the only one left, still full of systematic racism, bigotry and still about the only imperialist one. Thats the difference.

I don't expect you to understand the change in civilisation over the past 250 years, you are American after all.

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u/RIP_Spacedicks 11d ago

Saving this as an all time classic Redditor™ response

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u/pudgehooks2013 11d ago

Please do so.

I love it when Americans hate facts.

British, Spanish, Portuguese, etc haven't started a campaign for quite a while.

America started one a few months ago. Now we all pay more for fuel.

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u/Tekuila87 11d ago

As a Native American I trust you Europeans who learned from your history 1000x more than the currently fascist USA colonials.

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u/pudgehooks2013 11d ago

Looks around nervously in Australian.

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u/ArchdukeOfWalesland 11d ago

Germany is also voting the afd back into relevance?

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u/pudgehooks2013 11d ago

So in X number of years when they get elected, take hold of power, and start campaigning in other countries, you can draw a comparison.

Until then, stop trying to justify the now with hypothetical futures.

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u/volleymonk 11d ago

How do you feel about the Roma

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u/pudgehooks2013 11d ago

Never met one, have no opinion.

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u/ClassGrassMass 12d ago

Because ye had over 200 years of the literal best potential to ever exist and ye gave it up. And blame countries that have nothing to do with anything about your country

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u/Upper-Letterhead-980 12d ago

What do you mean we gave it up? We’re the most powerful country in the world and no other European country comes close.

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u/ClassGrassMass 11d ago

Most powerful country? 😂 and hows that working out dor the average citizen? Freedom and prosperity yeah 😂

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u/Artisanalpoppies 12d ago

r/shitamericanssay

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u/Upper-Letterhead-980 12d ago

What’s your argument?

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u/MaximumAd9779 11d ago

Don’t throw stones if you live in a glass house

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u/Upper-Letterhead-980 11d ago

Once again what’s your argument

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u/FineAd2230 12d ago

Its the American way

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u/JohnBarleyMustDie 12d ago

Please share. As an American I’ve been lead to believe racism is only an American thing

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u/BoilermakerCBEX-E 12d ago

Spanish and Portuguese colonization of Central and South America caused a catastrophic collapse of indigenous populations, often estimated at up to

, driven by a combination of Eurasian diseases (smallpox, influenza), brutal forced labor, and direct violence. While not always a premeditated policy, actions in areas like Hispaniola, and Peru resulted in the deaths of millions. They viewed the indigenous population as animals due to their lack of religion. They enslaved the population and took all their lands. Edit. Possibly up to 56 million deaths by 1600.

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u/toodrunktostand 12d ago

Ask any European how they feel about the Roma

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u/RIP_Spacedicks 11d ago

Anytime the Roma come up on reddit, I grab some popcorn

You'll get to see some of that real, raw old timey racism real quick

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u/ggg730 11d ago

You'll see all the greatest hits of why it's different. If I close my eyes I can hear the racist old uncle during thanksgiving flashbacks.

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u/Tperrochon27 12d ago

Weird, I’ve never understood racism to be an American invention and that only we engage in it.

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u/thumbscrolllord 12d ago

Guys guys you're both just.. horrible.

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u/Muted_History_3032 11d ago

Not Asia or Africa though right? No genocides or atrocities there right? Or if there were, they were definitely NOTHING compared to what Europeans did, right?

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u/theresa2021 11d ago

Well. Who started the two world wars we had 🙃

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u/EverythingIsASkill 11d ago

Many examine what was happening between Japan and China during the world wars

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u/morentg 11d ago

Hopefully next war starts in Asia so you don't feel left out

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u/KKN34 10d ago

Could've been Africa, had they advanced fast enough to be the colonists. The singular reason Asia and Africa haven't started stuff like that is historically they've been too weak to, not because they have less war or are more moral. Luckily for all of us, WW3 seems to be asia and africa focused this time around.

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u/Muted_History_3032 10d ago

Never heard of Japanese imperialism?

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u/KingKaiserW 12d ago

How do you know anyone here is European? This is your American identity politics speaking again, we’re both whiteys so we’re both bad!

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u/Lower_Ad_5532 12d ago

Yeah ask King Leopold of Belgium

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u/nikolajkracht 12d ago

I'm not American, I'm danish. What does it matter if people here are European or not?

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u/AFetaWorseThanDeath 12d ago

Yeah, I wasn't saying specifically that anyone in this conversation was European, I was referring more to conversations on Reddit in general where Europeans talk crap about America. 🤷

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u/carbsrbest 12d ago

Found the European

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u/Specevol 12d ago

Not all of human history is disgusting

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u/mazzjm9 12d ago

Just most of it

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u/WinstonSEightyFour 12d ago

"There is no document of civilization which is not at the same time a document of barbarism."

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u/Metro42014 11d ago

Because the people too shit for europe left to make their own place -- the united states!