Like it or not the history of the world is full of people that were conquered by a stronger group. A simple study of world history will show one group conquering another. Heck, the history of North and South America is full of tribal groups conquering and taking over before Europeans arrived. I’ve heard hand wringing over the British conquering Shaka Zulu, but he was “colonizing” the local tribes and from what I hear was very cruel.
All this to say that I’m so tired of being ashamed of history. It is what it is. You don’t like it go find the perfect country
American history alone is basically an infinite list of Natives warring and stealing from each other so much that by the time the Europeans arrived the losing tribes were rushing to enlist their help to fucking destroy the bigger ones.
Any tribe you can name is only that way because they were imperialist conquerors who absolutely did worse things to other Indians than most Americans ever did. They didn't invent scalping and other horrors when the Wild West came around, that had plenty history.
They all thought it would be beneficial to them, and for a long time it was through trade and local treaties. The just rapid expansion of the US, and its constant wars, just made those benefits slowly degrade until things got pretty bad.
The Aztecs were just unique in being so awful that everyone was happier being conquered than having to deal with them.
They LOVED trading cheap and easy to steal skins of inedible non-humans for metal trinkets.
All the fuckers who whine about not still being in the stone age are welcome to strip naked and knap them some stone in the boreal forest. Preferably in February.
Like it or not the history of the world is full of people that were conquered by a stronger group. A simple study of world history will show one group conquering another. Heck, the history of North and South America is full of tribal groups conquering and taking over before Europeans arrived. I’ve heard hand wringing over the British conquering Shaka Zulu, but he was “colonizing” the local tribes and from what I hear was very cruel.
All this to say that I’m so tired of being ashamed of history. It is what it is. You don’t like it go find the perfect country
American history alone is basically an infinite list of Natives warring and stealing from each other so much that by the time the Europeans arrived the losing tribes were rushing to enlist their help to fucking destroy the bigger ones.
Any tribe you can name is only that way because they were imperialist conquerors who absolutely did worse things to other Indians than most Americans ever did. They didn't invent scalping and other horrors when the Wild West came around, that had plenty history.
Then you had the tribes who helped Europeans because it was beneficial for them. Like the neighboring tribes helping the Spanish against the Aztecs
They all thought it would be beneficial to them, and for a long time it was through trade and local treaties. The just rapid expansion of the US, and its constant wars, just made those benefits slowly degrade until things got pretty bad.
The Aztecs were just unique in being so awful that everyone was happier being conquered than having to deal with them.
They LOVED trading cheap and easy to steal skins of inedible non-humans for metal trinkets.
All the fuckers who whine about not still being in the stone age are welcome to strip naked and knap them some stone in the boreal forest. Preferably in February.