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  • oatscoop@midwest.socialtoLemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldMake America Great!
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    12 days ago

    Native Americans are still people, and it’s a universal truth that people (as a whole) suck. I’m not excusing the horrors that came with colonization: but wars, slavery, murder, etc were still common things in America prior to colonization – just at a much smaller scale.

    All the horrible things people do to each other are just easier when you’re not stuck using stone-age technology.





  • It means “quick marriage because the bride is pregnant” and that is 100% the origin of the phrase.

    Particularly in poorer, rural parts of the USA having a child out of wedlock was incredibly shameful, and the financial burden of a single motherhood was intolerable. So the bride’s family would ensure the man responsible married their daughter … regardless of how he felt about it. Sometimes that meant having a shotgun at the wedding to ensure he didn’t run off.