Hate to be that guy, but it's "Should've" and not "Should of".
Good meme btw
Which is "should have" when spelt out.
Genuine question: is is spelt or spelled, or do both work?
I assumed "spelt" was wrong, but an internet search tells me both are correct.
One is "vivacious English", the other "simplified English"
Both work, but using spelt is more fun.
I don't know. I'm more of a barley sort of guy, myself.
Fun fact, related to this: learned and learnt are also both correct. I always assumed learnt was a redneck thing (I'm from the south), but it turns out the Brits use it too. Who knew?
Yea crap you're right, I wish I could correct the title
You can edit titles on Lemmy
it has been 6 hrs, should of do it by now
Hate to be that guy, but it's "should of done" and not "should of do".
Good comment btw
I like the comment but had to downvote it because the English is atrocious
Hate to be that guy but it's "language change" not "atrocious"
Actually, I don't hate to be that guy
I just copied the comment above.
You can on lemmy!
Me too 😔. Well at least you will know for next time.
You should of spelt it correctly
I like the post but had to downvote it because the English is atrocious
slavery is too morally bankrupt to ever have a cool maintainer like the cURL dude
The only issue with this adaptation of a great comic is that it infers the Confederacy was a well built structure that depended on that one small thing. The Confederacy didn't exist that long, it even didn't have a single flag version for longer than a year or so. Change it to the southern states' economy and it makes more sense.
Then the slavery would be a much bigger piece though, so this meme really makes no sense at all
It's... blocks haphazardly balanced. Which is completely the point. Do you think that looks like a "well-built structure"?
It's certainly a chaotic mess, but perhaps knowing the original subject of the comic tarnishes my take on it being used for other things in the same way. Analogies are often tricky.
Slavery was more like the central block two positions upwards from the tiny block indicated. It was their whole reason for secession.
And there should be an even bigger block under it called "Native land and resources that they didn't have gunpowder to defend".
It was a the death of 90% of the population to small pox within one generation that allowed colonization. The Europeans were dirty and diseased, untrained peasants. Their firearms at that time were inaccurate single shot rifles, that took minutes to reload. Analysis of indigenous bow techniques showed the common capability to accurately shoot multiple arrows in rapid succession.
And it goes beyond war: Indigenous people didn't farm as Europeans did, we instead cultivated forests with eidble plant species that complimented each other to kept the soil healthy. The forests across the Americas were thousands of years into a cycle of land management that kept grown food naturally abundant and plentiful, without having to clear the land. Indigenous peoples were expert and managing the population of the animals of their areas as well. We understood which members of an animal population should be hunted, and which should be kept for the health of the species. We then knew how to fully utilize every part of the animals hunted. The core of most indigenous cultures rotated around ethical and efficient management of the land's resources. What did the Europeans do? Accidentally gave an entire continent a super virus, then stripped the forests clear to plant shitty crops not made for this climate, and hunted countless animal species to extinction. Europeans were not technologically advanced at all. They were just diseased. That's it.
Rest assured that without smallpox, the Americas would not have been colonized. Population density and technological differences would have made it too dangerous and expensive an undertaking.
ooof, lots of pent-up frustration here.
Europeans were not any more "dirty" or "clean" than any other group, also Native Americans adopted the use of fire arms from the Europeans and would generally trade foodstuffs for firearms, in the end you are only repeating the Noble Savage
The main advantage of early guns wasn't that they were more powerful, it's that they were easy to use. You can train someone to fire a gun in a day, while it takes months of training just to get an archer strong enough to draw a bow.
Also the whole "the Europeans were dirty diseased peasants" thing isn't accurate, and I have to say that IMO the right response to racist depictions of indigenous people as unwashed savages isn't to just turn around and say "actually the stereotypes are correct it's just that it's about the Europeans this time".
And Indigenous people had more advanced technoglogy than many give them credit for but "The Europeans were technologically behind indigenous people in nearly every way. " is just blatantly wrong.
I do think you're right though that without smallpox and other diseases the Europeans wouldn't have colonised the Americas, though there were several other major factors in it.
P.S. I'm not a historian, grain of salt, etc.
You maybe would think about industrializing too before you split off..
"Stupid northerners and their fancy trains."
"Hey, how TF they getting all these fuckloads of troops out here so fast?"
To be fair, they couldn't industrialise before they split off. Their industries wouldn't have been competitive with the well-established ones already existing in the north. Only ways they could become competitive were (a) secede and put up tariffs, or (b) get a huge aid package from the federal government so they can run things at a loss for a few years. And the northern states would not have been happy with (b), so …
If you think slavery has been abolished you haven't seen prison labor.
To add more: the last chatel slave in the US was freed in 1942. During WWII.
Why? Not because it was the right thing to do, but because the optics of having slaves looked bad and the Japanese Empire (of all institutions) was calling the US out.
People living and running the country to this day fought tooth and nail against the civil rights movement. Slavery is not ancient history, it's part of what's allowed a small portion of the current world population to lead a privileged life.
You forgot the genocide
Stolen land with stolen people
