borschtisgarbo@lemmygrad.ml to El Chisme • 1 day agoGenuinely a vile personimagemessage-square32 fedilinkarrow-up188file-text
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minus-square2812481591 [any, it/its]hexbear52·1 day agoBackground: Maori never used haka as a substitute for more lethal weapons. They were doing the haka while holding guns. By 1815 the musket had become the primary weapon of Maori warfare link
minus-squareblame [they/them]hexbear41·1 day agogoddamn they went wild when they got their hands on firearms, shoulda shot the europeans instead. link
minus-squareHexboare [they/them]hexbear12·23 hours agoThey did, and led the earliest closest example of WW1 style trench warfare... in the 1860s Show link
minus-squareThermonuclearEgg [she/her, they/them]hexbear16·edit-21 day agoTo be fair to them, history seems to suggest there's only so many Europeans you can kill before you're the one getting genocided link
Background: Maori never used haka as a substitute for more lethal weapons. They were doing the haka while holding guns. By 1815 the musket had become the primary weapon of Maori warfare
goddamn they went wild when they got their hands on firearms, shoulda shot the europeans instead.
They did, and led the earliest closest example of WW1 style trench warfare... in the 1860s
To be fair to them, history seems to suggest there's only so many Europeans you can kill before you're the one getting genocided