PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — After mass shootings killed and wounded people grocery shopping, going to church and simply living their lives last weekend, the nation marked a milestone of 1 million deaths from COVID-19.

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  • Quimby [any, any]
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    3 years ago

    this country was semi-literally built on corpses.

    • FugaziArchivist [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I looked up a rough estimate on this: 12 million indigenous people were killed between 1492-1900 (in what is today the US)

        • FugaziArchivist [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          totally. I don't know how true this is, but I also read that sharks were not native to the east coast of the United States before the Atlantic Slave Trade. They only migrated there by following slave ships that would regularly toss kidnapped Africans overboard. Extremely grotesque

      • Shoegazer [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        The corpses of native Americans, African slaves, and Chinese construction workers :desolate: