Sh*thole Country

[SHRED]

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[dalton99a]

1. Perfect.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. It's too bad

It's too f'ing bad the native americans didn't have their own Dept of Homeland Security, border patrol, and ICE group.

[panader0]

28. This:

[DENVERPOPS]

29. Good one

Everyone should post this on every right wing web site that we all can find.........

[CatMor]

2. Love it ... great

[democratisphere]

3. Too bad they didn't listen to the Native American.

The drumpfs would be trying to take over Germany instead of America.

[Different Drummer]

18. This.

DD

[CaptYossarian]

27. For some relief, you should watch Hogan's Heroes.

Back then, we fought the Nazis. We didn't elect them to the presidency.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Right now I am more concerned with our shithole presidency.

[CCExile]

5. Funny (not ha-ha funny) that so many of these countries are the way they are because of us.

[DemocracyMouse]

7. You are correct. And Americans are not conscious of this, even the "educated"

[murielm99]

12. You are right.

Confessions of an Economic Hitman.

And look at the way we aided right wing coups in South America.

They are lawless in many places because of us.

[paulkienitz]

6. England at that time was a rather literal shithole.

One of the excellent reasons to emigrate to the colonies was the fact that cities like London were overrun with diseases, many of which were spread by poor sanitation and lack of sewers.

[maxsolomon]

11. That's not why they came.

they came because their religious fanaticism was unappreciated by the Church of England.

[demigoddess]

14. yes, religion was more important than anything. Too bad we

haven't progressed much more on that issue. Some voters still vote their religion.

[Kind of Blue]

15. Also, "Britain had been shipping convicts to America for decades before

they started sending them to Australia. In fact, it was precisely because of America’s fight for independence that the Brits had to start sending their criminals to Australia. But from 1718 until 1775, convict transportation to the American colonies flourished. Some estimates claim that almost 10 percent of migrants to America during this time were British convicts.

In fact, experts estimate that over 52,000 British prisoners were shipped off to colonial America.

Many Australians have more or less embraced their convict history. But if you’re an American who had no idea that your country’s founding included a huge prison population, you’re not alone. Historically, Americans have not been too keen on discussing the fact that convicts came to what would eventually become known as the United States.

https://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/britain-sent-thousands-of-its-convicts-to-america-not-1707458418

[geardaddy]

22. Wasn't a good portion of the colony of Georgia a penal colony?

I think I learned that in AP US History in high school.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Province_of_Georgia

[Kind of Blue]

24. I guess so. But what I understood was Georgia was intended as a penal colony

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because of the overwhelming number of poor people in England. I'd been corrected by Georgians before that the idea was over ruled early on and the first colonists were regular poor working class people. But then eventually debtors and convicts were sent to Georgia.

[Blue_playwright]

33. My ancestor was kicked out of England

Apparently, he beat the crap out of nobleman and was given the option of jail or America.

[Kind of Blue]

35. Wow! Proves the jail alternative must have been a living hell.

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Reminds me of a graphic novel I came across a few years ago whose author is African-American and Swedish-American. His Swedish descent mom knew nothing of her family history. The author, Eric Basir, found out about a game show inviting American Swedes to come and play and they'd research their genealogy and take them to their ancestors' estates, homes or hovels.

Just saying that a lot of this particular group's ancestry is tragic. One emigrated for ruining his family's name by stealing a bag of nails, tenet farmers sending 5 year olds away by themselves hoping for adoption in the Swedish-American community, another left his starving family so as not to be burden them.

So many left because of unimaginable brutally devastating conditions. My late MIL's ancestry were Spanish conversos who left because of the Inquisition.

I couldn't help laughing though reading your ancestor beat the crap out of a nobleman

[paulkienitz]

23. only a smallish portion of the people who settled the colonies went for religious reasons.

[maxsolomon]

25. the Puritans in the meme did.

[Kind of Blue]

19. Yes, definitely one of the reasons.

Besides religion this article covers: "Social, political, and economic inequality due to feudalism; Fragile food supply and famine; Poor health and the spread of infectious diseases; Uncertain economy; Overpopulation; Dangerous standards of living in urban and rural areas; Child victimization; Intolerance; Warfare; An idealistic image of the New World.

Our story begins in 15th and early 16th century Europe - with an undertanding of the English who eventually decide to immigrate to the New World."

http://gorhistory.com/hist110/expl.html

[DFW]

8. Probably the impression of the Native Americans who saw the first pilgrims

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[Aussie105]

31. Beat me to it!

But honestly, mass migrations have been part of human history for a long time - escaping religious persecution, wars, economic factors, etc.

It's how humanity spread across the globe.

But pilgrim fathers = good, brown people from the South = bad?

The whole paperwork thing is just a recent thing, and an excuse to lock people out.

Is it 'No Room for you!' or 'You are not White, go away!' ??

[tclambert]

9. Now that's a Thanksgiving day to celebrate.

[denbot]

13. Rec X ♾

K&R

[iluvtennis]

16. Right on! nt

[Pepsidog]

20. Brilliant!!

[zentrum]

21. A disaster to the globe

No climate change if indigenous people had prevailed.

[Kind of Blue]

26. But instead the Great Black Elk said after visiting New York in 1886

[US4u2]

32. Excellent!!!

... and little has changed since.

[Kind of Blue]

36. Welcome to DU, US4u2!

Unfortunately, not much just under different guises and now with invigorated state-sanctions policies.

[packman]

34. From my posting several days back

[Maru Kitteh]

37. had to kick this

so very perfect

[malaise]

38. K & R

for truth