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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by chrisco255 on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @06:09AM (#36875268)
They were mad over the French and Indian War which the Crown had gleefully dragged the colonists into, under which some tribes allied with the French and others with the Brits, to fight over territory, a story as old as time. Inter tribal and international warfare was, of course, an ancient pasttime among both native Europeans and native Americans.
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @07:05AM (#36875677)
The Colonists Genocided The Natives But It Could Have Gone Either Way

The comment.

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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by ffhhttt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @08:38AM (#36876649)
To be fair they didn’t quite manage to complete it since at the end the British decide the Indian to keep most of the land the colonists expected to get.

e.g. Washington and his soldiers were promised quite a bit of land in Ohio(?) as a reward for helping fight the french. All of that land ended up being an Indian reserve the Crown decided to establish instead.

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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:10AM (#36877062)
And the Armenians still exist.
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by ffhhttt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @09:52AM (#36877715)
I’m not sure what you’re implying?
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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @10:19AM (#36878174)
I’m replying, not implying.

> > To be fair they didn’t quite manage to complete it

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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by ffhhttt on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @01:13PM (#36881196)
Well yeah, but I was talking specifically about the French and Indian war and its aftermath when various Indian tribes still to some degree controlled a territory which was several times larger than the all 13 colonies put together.

They had to wait till independence to “complete it”.

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Re:When did people stop being drunk all the time? by avgcorrection on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @05:19PM (#36885196)
Definitely fair.
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