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That's an, uh, extremely suspect phrasing there, school textbook (lemmy.world)

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[–] kubica@fedia.io 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The phrasing and also that tiny drawing near the headline.

[–] jol@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Settler: I'll give you these piles of bills for this land, so you'll be rich.

Native: what are these green papers

[–] phdepressed@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It probably wasn't green at the time since ya know the US didn't exist much less dollar bills and cotton money instead of coinage and various types of paper banknotes.

[–] samus12345@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Also, this was Canada.

[–] PugJesus@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

Damn, I completely missed that XD