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Posted: 1/20/2020 12:48:59 AM EDT
I'm not a huge history person.
What is the worst thing we have done to our citizens since becoming a country?

I'm sure some of the crap we did to the Indians is up there but depending on the event a lot of that happened in areas that weren't part of this country at the time from what little I know.
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Sixteenth Amendment.
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1917
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Waco was pretty fucked up.
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Destroyed the social network of communities required to survive outside of state assistance. In return there is no reason for people to act within social value constructs since the community is no longer needed for support.
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Internment camps
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You ain’t seen nothing yet
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Wounded Knee was bad.
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Disarmed it's citizens and then killed them.

They also kill the one's that won't be disarmed, so, lose lose.
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Not gone back back to the goddamned farms and not setting strict term limits
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Elected representatives don't represent us any more
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Our government has done all sorts of horrible things, from interning innocent citizens of the USA during WW2 to burning women and kids in Waco....
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Take 52% of their income
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All those Fair this and Equal that acts passed under LBJ
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Income tax/welfare
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 12:58:22 AM EDT
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To be fair, federal term limits only apply to the clown put in front of the camera. Finding a new clown is as easy as A-O-C.

Find a way to end eternal administrative employment...now you've got something.
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We weren't allowed to become US citizens until 1924, so we were considered 'enemy combatants' in 1890 when the massacre took place.

I'd say that Johnson's 'Great Society' has destroyed uncountable numbers of lives in the last 55 years.
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Collecting a bunch of them, confiscating their property, and cramming them into camps against their will

(Dealers choice on which time)
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Poisoning alcohol during prohibition has to be way up top.
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Voted for obumer
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Disarmed it's citizens and then killed them.

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You're going need to be a bit more specific with that one.
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Internment camps
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Bonus Army pre 1950 post 1950 the destruction of the black family by welfare and the Gov tit
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Internment camps
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We'd be in camps right now if Herr Hitlery cheated its way into the Whine Haus.
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We weren't allowed to become US citizens until 1924, so we were considered 'enemy combatants' in 1890 when the massacre took place.

I'd say that Johnson's 'Great Society' has destroyed uncountable numbers of lives in the last 55 years.
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Wounded Knee was bad.
We weren't allowed to become US citizens until 1924, so we were considered 'enemy combatants' in 1890 when the massacre took place.

I'd say that Johnson's 'Great Society' has destroyed uncountable numbers of lives in the last 55 years.
I do understand the details, however I can't think of "native" Americans as anything less than Americans, regardless of the stance of the government. They're wrong, about a lot.
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What the USA did to Native Americans should be number 1.
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For raw "fuckedupedness" I'd have to go with all the secret experimentations that were done. The syphilis experiment being the easiest example to find, but there were others just as bad or worse.
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Can't disagree with that, and that's only the things we know about.
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Maybe you would...
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Income tax/welfare
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I'm not a huge history person.
What is the worst thing we have done to our citizens since becoming a country?

I'm sure some of the crap we did to the Indians is up there but depending on the event a lot of that happened in areas that weren't part of this country at the time from what little I know.
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Wounded Knee, Black Kettle. would be a start Slavery would be up there, Japanese internment camps, Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians and many more including prosecutions on false charges by alphabet agencies.

THE LUST FOR POWER RUNS DEEP IN THE SWAMP, AND DEPLORABLE PEOPLE ARE EXPENDABLE FOR THE CAUSE.    
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Off the top of my head

I would say Civil War.

Nations own drawing blood on each other.
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We'd be in camps right now if Herr Hitlery cheated its way into the Whine Haus.
Maybe you would...
Sorry your girl lost
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Collecting a bunch of them, confiscating their property, and cramming them into camps against their will

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Not sure if Andrew Javkson did this first with the trail of tears. Travesty

People should understand a government knows it can do anything they want to their people

Look at Nazi Germany and the ovens
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Patriot act.

Made Richard Simmons famous.
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Like most nations, we have a history of abject wickedness despite the best intentions during our founding.
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No intrawebs points for you. I don’t think that is whAt he meant.
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 1:10:04 AM EDT
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open boarders
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Let Justin Bieber in.
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 1:12:31 AM EDT
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19th amendment  
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This.

It's the income tax amendment, for those following along at home.
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 1:16:30 AM EDT
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FPNI
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worst thing I can think of off hand was the servicemen that the army closely exposed to nuke bomb tests during the 50's, actually made them march towards and into the over pressure immediately after the blast.
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I fear that you're correct.
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Not the Feds but the Colorado state government used the CO national guard to machinegun striking miners and their families in 1914.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 1:20:02 AM EDT
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Welfare
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Send us to war in WWI?
Create the Fed?
Pass a law in 2008 allowing them to propagandize citizens?
Not put Hillary in jail?
Link Posted: 1/20/2020 1:21:19 AM EDT
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Wounded Knee, Black Kettle. would be a start Slavery would be up there, Japanese internment camps, Ruby Ridge, Branch Davidians and many more including prosecutions on false charges by alphabet agencies.

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Did the United States do slavery?
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If we confine this to US citizens in the strictest sense, internment camps come to mind.
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