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    • Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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      2 years ago

      This has happened a lot historically all over the world. Turns out that being a disposable foot soldier for an evil expansionist empire isn’t a great way to live and a lot of them took the chance to defect to indigenous societies when they could.

  • axont [she/her, comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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    2 years ago

    A lot of people seem to believe the Sentinelese are pissed off for no reason. The British did expeditions there in the 1800s and killed a bunch of elderly people and kidnapped children. The Sentinelese have been justifiably cautious ever since.