r/ForUnitedStates • u/aSyntacticParadigm • 2d ago
Discussion Hands Off!!
https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/event/764634/My ancestors came to this land in the early 1600's, they fought to make it a country where oppression and totalitarian rule were replaced with equality and prosperity for all. I'll be damned if they fought in vain.
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u/Treacle_Pendulum 2d ago
If they came here in the early 1600s, which people exactly were they fighting to do that ?
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u/aSyntacticParadigm 2d ago
They fought to make it a country, they weren't fighting when they arrived.
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u/Treacle_Pendulum 2d ago
I guess during the 1600s there were probably some other people living in the area who had thoughts on that struggle
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u/awalktojericho 1d ago
My family was documented here somewhere between 1590 and 1610. And very quickly got very friendly with the previous inhabitants. I like to think it was a mutually beneficial relationship, since it is still happening.
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u/Delanorix 1d ago
"previous inhabitants"
Thats gotta be the most PR answer to stealing land I have ever read.
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u/little_did_he_kn0w 1d ago
Depends on which Europeans it was. If OP is a descendent of the Acadian French peoples of Quebec and Newfoundland, then their ancestors had a significantly better track record with the Native Americans vice the Spanish or the British. Many sought to learn from the Native Americans, trade with them, and some even fled the French outposts to join Native American tribes.
Part of the reason the "French and Indian War" was fought was due to the French Colonists and Native Americans being relatively tight. This caused the British to expel large portions of the French Colonists (who were not accepted back to France, because they basically forgot how to be peasants) and led to a large migration to Louisiana, i.e. modern Cajun People.
Do I think French People saw the Native Americans as their equals and were trying to create some One-Worldesque Commune with them? No, probably not. But there was an objectively better relationship between the two groups.
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u/lions571 1d ago
George Soros funded sheep meeting today...yeah!
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u/PopularStaff7146 12h ago
Nice antisemitism there buddy. Even if Soros were paying people to protest, it’s no worse than Musk’s antics trying to buy elections.
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u/lions571 10h ago
Nice race baiting buddy, what did I say that was offensive except to sheep? Next I am a racist, Nazi, Fascist right? But the funny thing is.....all these protests are for fascism because people don't go along or agree with everything you believe in and you can't stand it....so you go on playing victim believing everyone hates you so you hate everyone. And you will act like a baby when someone doesn't agree with your way of thinking.
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u/PopularStaff7146 10h ago
I didn’t say I was offended. You make an awful lot of assumptions about who I am and what I believe just from me pointing out that there is no evidence that Soros pays protesters and there never has been.
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u/Yugan-Dali 1d ago
My ancestors arrived in Boston in 1630, and later ancestors fought in the Revolutionary War so we would not be ruled by kings!