Ben & Jerry's Asks America on July 4th to Return Stolen Land

https://www.tmz.com/2023/07/05/ben-and-jerrys-political-statement-4th-of-july-stolen-land/

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Hotchili@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (3 replies)

Isn’t that pretty much all of it?

kemsat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 3y (2 replies)

On the contiguous states, yup all completely & definitely stolen. Hawaii is absolutely stolen: they overthrew their Queen so they could grow more pineapples. Alaska could be considered legitimately purchased, but I flat out don’t know how the Russians took it before it was sold to us.

varzaman@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 3y (1 reply)

What is even the premise of stolen land to begin with? Where does it end? At a certain point of time, all land was owned by someone else.

Think about all the wars of conquest.

WraithGear@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3y

If you consider land as own-able at all. And if so then it is by right of might.

Klicnik@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 3y

Politics aside, their ice cream is great stuff, but so expensive I never buy it. I guess I have been "boycotting" it based on price for my whole life.