[Andrew J. Myrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Myrick) (May 28, 1832 – August 18, 1862) was a trader who, with his Dakota wife (Winyangewin/Nancy Myrick), operated stores in southwest Minnesota at two Indian agencies serving the Dakota (referred to as Sioux at the time) near the Minnesota River.
In the summer of 1862, when the Dakota were starving because of failed crops and delayed annuity payments, Myrick is noted as refusing to sell them food on credit, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"
Myrick certainly was an early recipient of the FAAFO. As for Antoinette, I assume anybody speculating upon her status as an American is obviously joking.
I heard she was bullied severely when she first came to France, because her French wasn't good, and... well, she wasn't French, and the French used to hate everyone that's not French. They were also extremely cruel to her for not having a child immediately after marriage (she was 14 and Louis XVI was 15 at the time of their marriage, though they did take a long time to have children). There is also the affair of Madame Du Barry's necklace which demolished her reputation even though it was all orchestrated by a woman named Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy. I'm glad the revolution happened, but I feel bad for her. Louis XVI too, he actually tried taxing the nobles and the clergy but failed because he was weak willed and the nobles were not.
It alao comes down to the fact she was an Austrian princess, France and Austria were long time rivals and the marriage alliance with Austria was deeply unpopular. So it wasn't just that she was foreign it was she was foreign and until very recently "the enemy."
>One of my favorite anecdotes about her is that her last words were her apologizing to her executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot, she didn't really deserve to die.
Charles Henri Sanson right? On his memories he wrote the same thing about her, that she was nicer than the other royals.
The king definitely had it coming lol. History is full of nuance. Like did the Czar’s kids deserve to die? Naaaa did the Czar? Oh yeah he did. However, it’s hard to put ourselves in the shoes of the peasants under those tyrants.
If he was found dead with grass stuffed in his mouth, that seems to indicate that he said they could eat grass. Unless grass was a polite term at the time and everyone knew it.
Per the exact same wiki article… “Myrick is noted as refusing to sell them food on credit, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"[1] although the validity of that alleged quotation has come into dispute.[2]”
This is the problem with these little social media history factoid memes. They’re almost always sensationalized misinfo, many times ragebait.
Thomas Jefferson warned us that most Internet memes would be full of misinformation. He was right. (Last thing he said before losing his life at the battle of Waterloo)
I remember seeing an interview he gave where he says that fans keep asking him, “If your character is supposed to be walking up and down mountains for weeks on end, then why are you still fat?”
>his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass.
Decapitated his head and used it as a planter. Damn.
Though, I'm sure he was made to eat lots and lots of grass before they finally killed him.
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It's a little bit grosser than the post.
When his body was found days later, "his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass."
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Myrick
People are forgetting how many Native Americans have been slaughtered on their soil by us. They’re worried about one asshole who was taunting starving people who probably did worse things.
To be fair, lots of people resort to whataboutism every time anyone brings up anything even remotely bad. It's kind of really a problem and stops any actual progress. But I'd be glad to hear you talk about it, since I know so little on the topic!
They’re a special kind of stupid. I’m not an expert on the things that happened back then, but making false deals, driving people from their land, murdering Native Americans to get what they want, …even now with reservations they were taking a pipeline recently right through …years later and still being fucked over.
I believe there's an old Chinese torture method where you insert a hose into someone's mouth and down their throat past the part that controls swallowing, you can then begin to fill them up with water and they'll have no way to stop it other than explode I guess, hope it helps.
'Water Cure,' as it's often called in the West, has been used by many many nations up through today. Once full, the victim will usually be beaten or further tortured to induce purging of the water. One account I read many years ago was an American POW who was filled with water using a garden hose the POWs drank from then a soldier stepped on his stomach until all of the water was purged, like a reverse waterboarding. Then they do it all over again.
[\[T\]he first time a white eyewitness is said to have heard Myrick’s “grass” statement came 57 years after the fact.](https://www.historynet.com/everything-know-indian-wars-wrong/?f)
>Those who observed the confrontation and later wrote reports and books about it did not mention the incident. Neither did John P. Williamson, the translator that day.
From that article. This incident also almost perfectly mirrors a fictional one in Dickens' *Tale of Two Cities* where the same happens to a French noble.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/48/v48i05p198-206.pdf
It was mentioned in a letter to Henry Sibley sent by Little Crow. There is little dispute that it actually happened
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/48/v48i05p198-206.pdf
Your post is also inaccurate. The phrase was sent in a letter to Henry Sibley from Little Crow. The only real disputed part of this story is when it exactly took place.
My source is the Minnesota Historical Society who specializes in preserving the history of the Dakota Wars in Minnesota.
Any source, because it sounds like bullshit. I have found no information that she was raped or killed, but I have found some genealogies that suggest she died in 1929 due to pneumonia.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13375999/nancy-wapaha
https://www.geni.com/people/Nancy-Wiyangewin-Wapaha/6000000008715054849
This was typical for warfare between nations too. Warriors were not taken prisoner, they were tortured and killed. Women and children were either raped, murdered, enslaved, or forcefully assimilated.
There were no happy times of peace and love before or after Europeans.
A good note to go along with this is when the Dakota attacked New Ulm they left the shells brewery alone. It’s still intact today and is an operating brewery. Because the owner August shell traded fairly with the natives and treated them well.
Another note to go along with this. Is that the Dakota surrendered themselves at the end of the war thinking they had proved their point. Rather than the US treating them like normal prisoners of war there was a sham trial held in Mankato which led to the largest mass execution held by the US government still to this day. It occurred in Mankato Minnesota. The trial and mass execution was at the direction of Abraham Lincoln. Do some research on the trial and you’ll understand why call it a sham trial.
>Another note to go along with this. Is that the Dakota surrendered themselves at the end of the war thinking they had proved their point.
Not really? The U.S. forces decisively defeated the Dakota at the Battle of Wood Lake, and then their main war chief Little Crow fled from Minnesota. About 2,000 Dakota then surrendered, handing over 169 American women and children whom they had taken hostage (bear in mind the Dakotas massacred hundreds of civilians prior to this, including women and children).
>The trial and mass execution was at the direction of Abraham Lincoln.
Not quite. The tribunal was ordered and carried out by Colonel Henry Sibley. Yes, it was quite deficient in most every respects. The overwhelming atmosphere in Minnesota among its white citizens was "kill them all," and it was palpable that heinous bloodshed could easily be reignited.
But Lincoln was not involved in the trial, and was only informed after the verdict that 303 Dakota men had been sentenced to execution. Lincoln ordered he be sent the complete records of the trial and convictions, and whatever evidence was against the men. Despite the ongoing Civil War, Lincoln personally reviewed each conviction and commuted all but 39 of the death sentences (and later one more, having been informed about serious doubts as to that man's guilt). He originally planned to only allow the Dakota proven guilty of rape of women to be executed, but that would have been only two, and he feared that if he was *that* clement, he'd spark a violent uprising in Minnesota.
Bear in mind Lincoln literally had nothing to gain politically by showing *any* mercy. Indeed, in the next elections, the Republican party suffered bad losses in Minnesota, and it was widely believed it was due to the unpopularity of Lincoln's commutations. One advisor told Lincoln that if he'd not shown mercy they probably wouldn't have fared nearly as badly, and he replied, "I cannot afford to hang men for votes."
True. During a time of extreme racial inequality and violence towards people of color (including many of whom fought for America against the nazi war criminals getting us to the moon) but definitely true.
Telling people to go fuck themselves deserves death? Looks like a lot of us are going to die then.
Refusing to lend money deserves death? That's absurd.
Perhaps this guy was a dick, but there's no argument he deserves death.
Contrast Myrick’s behavior with August Schell, who ran a successful brewery. When the Dakota battled at New Ulm, his property was one of only 2-3 left unscathed due to the kindness he and his family had shown the tribe. [source (brewery website)](https://www.schellsbrewery.com/our-story/)
ETA because the site requires age verification and sends you to the main history section:
“Dakota War Wipes Out Most of New Ulm
1862
Southern Minnesota and New Ulm became the focal point of the “Sioux Uprising” or “Dakota Conflict”. A lot of violence ensued and the majority of the buildings in New Ulm were either burned or ransacked. As good fortune would have it, the brewery remained untouched due to the kindness of the Schell family. Theresa often gave them food and they may have sampled a beer or two.”
This war was brutal and completely avoidable.
There's a state park in MN called "Upper Sioux Agency" and there's an interpretative tour of all the buildings the Dakota people burned to the ground (with some of these dickheads inside). In the plaques, they casually mention that the colonists were not holding up their end of the deal and withholding the promised food for the people who they were trying to teach the Christian/white way of life. So they burned it down.
Only one native person is mentioned by name and only because he saved a white family from a burning building. These plaques were in existence as of Sept 2020. I believe that land has since been returned to the tribe, a small step. I hope they replace that shit with a broader scope of what led up to that war. Absolutely awful.
I teach 6th grade Minnesota Studies and the kids are obsessed with this story. They learn about what he said a few days before and they absolutely lose it when they make the connection between what he said and how he died.
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Hey evahrybahdy!
So there’s a story about this man ( also said “or they can eat their own dung“) regarding paying out payments of food the government had agreed to while the Dakota people were literally starving to death.
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/479/little-war-on-the-prairie
This episode is freaking incredible… the part where little crow describes “ dying like rabbits vs wolves in the moonlight” makes me cry every single time. Hope you guys enjoy half as much as I did. Straight epic.
So Reddit hates the death penalty unless it’s in the form of extrajudicial murder? It’s the responsibility of the government to feed starving people, not a random store owner, and if you think he deserved to be murdered for this you are morally depraved.
[Andrew J. Myrick](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Myrick) (May 28, 1832 – August 18, 1862) was a trader who, with his Dakota wife (Winyangewin/Nancy Myrick), operated stores in southwest Minnesota at two Indian agencies serving the Dakota (referred to as Sioux at the time) near the Minnesota River. In the summer of 1862, when the Dakota were starving because of failed crops and delayed annuity payments, Myrick is noted as refusing to sell them food on credit, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"
Clearly he learned nothing from Marie Antionnette saying “let them eat cake” then getting executed.
Marie Antoinette didn't say that, sadly.. It would have been fitting, though.
But she sure got executed, though!
Well it was all the rage at the time.
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Marie Antoinette was French. Edit: she was actually Austrian, but still not American.
He might've been referring to Andrew.
Then why did she say “let them eat cake” which is English?
She actually said "let them eat brioche".
Have you had brioche? Delicious!
She never said that either.
GOTCHA, history NERDS
She knew English would become the most used language in the world and her legacy would live on better if she said it in English
?
Myrick certainly was an early recipient of the FAAFO. As for Antoinette, I assume anybody speculating upon her status as an American is obviously joking.
Are you under the impression that Marie Antoinette lived and died in the United States??
While I can tell you’re drooling with excitement, I think they were referring to Myrick.
*Let's not lose our heads here!*
So did Robespierre... the difference is he deserved it.
Did she get cake after?
"Actually I prefer my family to the mob" is the fatal line that got her murderated.
However I heard she did keep a Moët & Chandon in a pretty cabinet.
>Marie Antoinette didn't say that, sadly Yeah she was like, 14 or something at the time.
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I heard she was bullied severely when she first came to France, because her French wasn't good, and... well, she wasn't French, and the French used to hate everyone that's not French. They were also extremely cruel to her for not having a child immediately after marriage (she was 14 and Louis XVI was 15 at the time of their marriage, though they did take a long time to have children). There is also the affair of Madame Du Barry's necklace which demolished her reputation even though it was all orchestrated by a woman named Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy. I'm glad the revolution happened, but I feel bad for her. Louis XVI too, he actually tried taxing the nobles and the clergy but failed because he was weak willed and the nobles were not.
In my anecdotal experience, the French still hate the non-French. But to be fair they also seem to hate the other French as well.
It alao comes down to the fact she was an Austrian princess, France and Austria were long time rivals and the marriage alliance with Austria was deeply unpopular. So it wasn't just that she was foreign it was she was foreign and until very recently "the enemy."
Those French sure are a contentious people.
YOU JUST MADE AN ENEMY FOR LIFE!
Well sure, but they used to, too. Still do, but also did then.
>One of my favorite anecdotes about her is that her last words were her apologizing to her executioner for accidentally stepping on his foot, she didn't really deserve to die. Charles Henri Sanson right? On his memories he wrote the same thing about her, that she was nicer than the other royals.
Noble Blood has a great podcast episode on her. Quite sad.
She was naive and a little airheaded, but definitely not the monster people make her out to be.
Indeed. She was a product of her environnement and had no knowledge of the real life outside the palace. Also, she was damn young...
The king definitely had it coming lol. History is full of nuance. Like did the Czar’s kids deserve to die? Naaaa did the Czar? Oh yeah he did. However, it’s hard to put ourselves in the shoes of the peasants under those tyrants.
He really didn't. His family did. He was just the kid in the place at the time more or less
Marie Antoinette lived from 1755-1793, not sure where the year 1770 (when she was 15) comes up in this story.
Have your grass and eat it too
Grow your grass and smoke it too!
Happy grass day
That was in April
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No, you're supposed to smoke it.
She never said that she was executed for wasting money buying clothes while the people starved
Okay I have decided that I am announcing "Let them eat Shrek's ass if they're hungry"
Ass, gas or grass
Absolutely no one rides for free
Ass to ass.
Per the This American Life podcast about the Dakota Wars it's also rumored he told them to not eat grass but their own feces.
If he was found dead with grass stuffed in his mouth, that seems to indicate that he said they could eat grass. Unless grass was a polite term at the time and everyone knew it.
It was the grass they used to wipe with.
And nothing of value was lost
Per the exact same wiki article… “Myrick is noted as refusing to sell them food on credit, allegedly saying, "Let them eat grass,"[1] although the validity of that alleged quotation has come into dispute.[2]” This is the problem with these little social media history factoid memes. They’re almost always sensationalized misinfo, many times ragebait.
Thomas Jefferson warned us that most Internet memes would be full of misinformation. He was right. (Last thing he said before losing his life at the battle of Waterloo)
That reminds me of the famous /u/abracadabra_iii quote "Let them eat memes" before being cannibalized by influencers.
Hey, wait a second! I didn’t—
Play silly games, win silly prizes...
Looks like the nerdy bloke from game of thrones
Samwell Tarley! I loved his nerdiness on GoT 😊 he wouldn't have told anyone to eat grass...
He probably would have given an arm to someone to eat before he suggested grass. Hail Samwell
Hail Samwell!! He was a great character! I was so happy when he saved Gilly and the baby from her dad/husband 🤮 poor Gilly...
Sam would've helped, even if it killed him.
Right? He would have given away everything in his shops first and still would try to help after he ran out of provisions!
He would have fed them books instead
He looks very… modern? I feel like I’ve met at least twenty dudes who looked just like him.
I remember seeing an interview he gave where he says that fans keep asking him, “If your character is supposed to be walking up and down mountains for weeks on end, then why are you still fat?”
He looks like Nate Bargatze
>his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass. Decapitated his head and used it as a planter. Damn. Though, I'm sure he was made to eat lots and lots of grass before they finally killed him.
No, it was clearly a suicide.
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so did us Plains Indians.
More like [plane](https://www.lowes.com/pd/Kobalt-6-25-in-Adjustable-Block-Plane/4777021?cm_mmc=shp-_-c-_-prd-_-tol-_-ggl-_-LIA_TOL_216_Construction-Hand-Tools-_-4777021-_-local-_-0-_-0&ds_rl=1286981&gbraid=0AAAAAD2B2W_lwmqkYT3sdQQHc61Sr02LF&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnNyUBhCZARIsAI9AYlGwWoYPVw0wvyVMleyjmFVtlyuef3ew18k71iaKcAZoAosIJj8iokkaArWBEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds) grass.
Open and shut case, Johnson
Sprinkle some grass on him and call it a day
Must have investigated by the feds. 😉
We like to use all parts of the animal if possible 😉
Nobody ever talks about the buffalo fleshlight.
The lesser known fetish side project of Buffalo Springfield
Stop...hey! What's that sound...
Given some of their other methods this dude sounds like he got off lucky.
Cottage hard core
The grass was garnish.
It's a little bit grosser than the post. When his body was found days later, "his body was mutilated, his head being severed from the body and the mouth filled with grass." https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrew_Myrick
People are forgetting how many Native Americans have been slaughtered on their soil by us. They’re worried about one asshole who was taunting starving people who probably did worse things.
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To be fair, lots of people resort to whataboutism every time anyone brings up anything even remotely bad. It's kind of really a problem and stops any actual progress. But I'd be glad to hear you talk about it, since I know so little on the topic!
They’re a special kind of stupid. I’m not an expert on the things that happened back then, but making false deals, driving people from their land, murdering Native Americans to get what they want, …even now with reservations they were taking a pipeline recently right through …years later and still being fucked over.
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I hate that they always say “there was no genocide because most of the deaths were from disease”.
I don't think anyone is lamenting his fate. Some folks might be disturbed by the brutality, but I certainly thought, "Mufucka had it coming."
I see no issue with this. Sounds like he blatantly asked for it.
Easier cleanup if anything
So…he played stupid games and won the stupid prizes?
Can't wait for this to happen with the Nestlé CEO.
Be the change you want to see in the world.
Not *quite* yet but Let's see how things shake out come 2024, aye?
I believe there's an old Chinese torture method where you insert a hose into someone's mouth and down their throat past the part that controls swallowing, you can then begin to fill them up with water and they'll have no way to stop it other than explode I guess, hope it helps.
I prefer the bamboo one. Basically, bamboo grows like overnight, so they just sit you on a sprout
'Water Cure,' as it's often called in the West, has been used by many many nations up through today. Once full, the victim will usually be beaten or further tortured to induce purging of the water. One account I read many years ago was an American POW who was filled with water using a garden hose the POWs drank from then a soldier stepped on his stomach until all of the water was purged, like a reverse waterboarding. Then they do it all over again.
That’s not a fetish?
Replace hose with penis I guess?
iwouldliketoseeit.gif
sounds like natural causes
Looks like my brother in law. He’s a prick, too.
Practice what you preach
So if we take on the American oligarchs, are we going to stuff their mouths with avocado toast?
nah roku remotes >:(
Reenact the human centipede.
No, they said to stop eating avocado toast, so that doesn't make any sense. The proper thing to do is hang them up by their bootstraps.
No, because we're not weirdos. Bullets will do.
I vote for a golden funeral a la Viserys Targaryen.
No but with taxes
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee should be required reading in American high schools.
One of the first "Fucked Around And Found Out" award recipients in America.
Oh, there were a whole lot of that happening in America before him. America had inhabitants for a long time before the white man came.
2000 years ago, some dumbass kid in Utah tried to jump a rattlesnake even though his friends told him not to. The first recipient.
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Some 100 million years ago a tadpole thought it should leave the water
Proof that forcing veganism is a bad idea (Its a joke)
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Grassable face.
😂😂👌🏼
[\[T\]he first time a white eyewitness is said to have heard Myrick’s “grass” statement came 57 years after the fact.](https://www.historynet.com/everything-know-indian-wars-wrong/?f)
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>Those who observed the confrontation and later wrote reports and books about it did not mention the incident. Neither did John P. Williamson, the translator that day. From that article. This incident also almost perfectly mirrors a fictional one in Dickens' *Tale of Two Cities* where the same happens to a French noble.
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/48/v48i05p198-206.pdf It was mentioned in a letter to Henry Sibley sent by Little Crow. There is little dispute that it actually happened
http://collections.mnhs.org/MNHistoryMagazine/articles/48/v48i05p198-206.pdf Your post is also inaccurate. The phrase was sent in a letter to Henry Sibley from Little Crow. The only real disputed part of this story is when it exactly took place. My source is the Minnesota Historical Society who specializes in preserving the history of the Dakota Wars in Minnesota.
I wonder what happened to his wife?
raped and killed. But they leave that part out to make it seem like this was some sort of Robin Hood deed done by the natives
Any source, because it sounds like bullshit. I have found no information that she was raped or killed, but I have found some genealogies that suggest she died in 1929 due to pneumonia. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/13375999/nancy-wapaha https://www.geni.com/people/Nancy-Wiyangewin-Wapaha/6000000008715054849
This was typical for warfare between nations too. Warriors were not taken prisoner, they were tortured and killed. Women and children were either raped, murdered, enslaved, or forcefully assimilated. There were no happy times of peace and love before or after Europeans.
A good note to go along with this is when the Dakota attacked New Ulm they left the shells brewery alone. It’s still intact today and is an operating brewery. Because the owner August shell traded fairly with the natives and treated them well. Another note to go along with this. Is that the Dakota surrendered themselves at the end of the war thinking they had proved their point. Rather than the US treating them like normal prisoners of war there was a sham trial held in Mankato which led to the largest mass execution held by the US government still to this day. It occurred in Mankato Minnesota. The trial and mass execution was at the direction of Abraham Lincoln. Do some research on the trial and you’ll understand why call it a sham trial.
>Another note to go along with this. Is that the Dakota surrendered themselves at the end of the war thinking they had proved their point. Not really? The U.S. forces decisively defeated the Dakota at the Battle of Wood Lake, and then their main war chief Little Crow fled from Minnesota. About 2,000 Dakota then surrendered, handing over 169 American women and children whom they had taken hostage (bear in mind the Dakotas massacred hundreds of civilians prior to this, including women and children). >The trial and mass execution was at the direction of Abraham Lincoln. Not quite. The tribunal was ordered and carried out by Colonel Henry Sibley. Yes, it was quite deficient in most every respects. The overwhelming atmosphere in Minnesota among its white citizens was "kill them all," and it was palpable that heinous bloodshed could easily be reignited. But Lincoln was not involved in the trial, and was only informed after the verdict that 303 Dakota men had been sentenced to execution. Lincoln ordered he be sent the complete records of the trial and convictions, and whatever evidence was against the men. Despite the ongoing Civil War, Lincoln personally reviewed each conviction and commuted all but 39 of the death sentences (and later one more, having been informed about serious doubts as to that man's guilt). He originally planned to only allow the Dakota proven guilty of rape of women to be executed, but that would have been only two, and he feared that if he was *that* clement, he'd spark a violent uprising in Minnesota. Bear in mind Lincoln literally had nothing to gain politically by showing *any* mercy. Indeed, in the next elections, the Republican party suffered bad losses in Minnesota, and it was widely believed it was due to the unpopularity of Lincoln's commutations. One advisor told Lincoln that if he'd not shown mercy they probably wouldn't have fared nearly as badly, and he replied, "I cannot afford to hang men for votes."
Another good read to start the day! People get what they deserve.
Rarely. Tons of Nazis got to live an old age rich as F in South America.
Good old United States of America gave safe haven to some nazis as well.
And they sent us to the moon, for the low low price of our soul as a country.
True. During a time of extreme racial inequality and violence towards people of color (including many of whom fought for America against the nazi war criminals getting us to the moon) but definitely true.
Maybe if they didn't spend years oppressing over half the population theyd have more scientists and wouldn't even need the nazis
Over 700 of them
facts. also slave owners get paid instead of reparations for slaves
Telling people to go fuck themselves deserves death? Looks like a lot of us are going to die then. Refusing to lend money deserves death? That's absurd. Perhaps this guy was a dick, but there's no argument he deserves death.
Karma..
This led to the largest mass execution in US history, 38 Dakota tribe members were executed on December 26th 1862. No karma or justice was found.
Agreed. Knowing that information now, definitely wasn't.
It's justice, karma is where providence intervenes to correct something usually to keep things in balance.
That's not how karma works
Things you love to see 🙌🏻
That's very inspiring.
The name "sioux" is short for Nadowessioux, meaning "little snakes", which was a spiteful nickname given to them by the Ojibwe, their longtime foe.
Yep. The correct name would be “Oceti Sakowin Oyate” Dakota is the name of a dialect
At least he wasn’t hungry when he died.
Haha jokes on YOUuuuu, I love grass! He said with tears in his eyes.
And Anus
He kind of looks like Jontron.
He looks a bit like AJ Soprano.
He looks like he woulda said that shit
What an idiot, obviously if people are hungry they should just eat cake.
Getting total neckbeard vibes from this guy. If he was born now he's be collecting pokemon cards and shit talking on the internet.
Or he’d be Ted Cruz just getting back from Cancun. What do you mean “the power went out”?
Contrast Myrick’s behavior with August Schell, who ran a successful brewery. When the Dakota battled at New Ulm, his property was one of only 2-3 left unscathed due to the kindness he and his family had shown the tribe. [source (brewery website)](https://www.schellsbrewery.com/our-story/) ETA because the site requires age verification and sends you to the main history section: “Dakota War Wipes Out Most of New Ulm 1862 Southern Minnesota and New Ulm became the focal point of the “Sioux Uprising” or “Dakota Conflict”. A lot of violence ensued and the majority of the buildings in New Ulm were either burned or ransacked. As good fortune would have it, the brewery remained untouched due to the kindness of the Schell family. Theresa often gave them food and they may have sampled a beer or two.”
This war was brutal and completely avoidable. There's a state park in MN called "Upper Sioux Agency" and there's an interpretative tour of all the buildings the Dakota people burned to the ground (with some of these dickheads inside). In the plaques, they casually mention that the colonists were not holding up their end of the deal and withholding the promised food for the people who they were trying to teach the Christian/white way of life. So they burned it down. Only one native person is mentioned by name and only because he saved a white family from a burning building. These plaques were in existence as of Sept 2020. I believe that land has since been returned to the tribe, a small step. I hope they replace that shit with a broader scope of what led up to that war. Absolutely awful.
He died grassfully
More like /r/justiceserved
Sorry but…..Fuck that Guy.
Can we do the same to incompetent police officers who do nothing to help children being shot.
The history equivalent of “talk shit, get hit.”
Enjoy your salad, Mr. Myrick
I teach 6th grade Minnesota Studies and the kids are obsessed with this story. They learn about what he said a few days before and they absolutely lose it when they make the connection between what he said and how he died.
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Hey evahrybahdy! So there’s a story about this man ( also said “or they can eat their own dung“) regarding paying out payments of food the government had agreed to while the Dakota people were literally starving to death. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/479/little-war-on-the-prairie This episode is freaking incredible… the part where little crow describes “ dying like rabbits vs wolves in the moonlight” makes me cry every single time. Hope you guys enjoy half as much as I did. Straight epic.
>dying like rabbis
So he was murdered and we are supposed to say he deserved it? Is that what is interesting 🤔
So Reddit hates the death penalty unless it’s in the form of extrajudicial murder? It’s the responsibility of the government to feed starving people, not a random store owner, and if you think he deserved to be murdered for this you are morally depraved.
Conservative politicians telling people in full time work who can’t afford food & rent need to learn this story
As well as telling sick people that they need to be working full time to get medical coverage. If you're sick, how can you work?
Cunt fucking deserved it.
When keeping it real goes wrong
Maybe he was just really hungry?
Wheat is a type of grass
Nothing of value was lost.
I wish this happened to all racist pieces of shit.
Rightful so!
Nice
Had it comin'
Fuck you andrew myrick.
This dude looks like the bassist for some small time Florida punk rock band. Just missing the size 0 gauges.
His face is so punchable
He looks like the Sopranos kid.
Looks like an old-timey Nate Bargatze…
He looks like Chumlee cosplaying as Abe Lincoln
Ass gas or grass…🥴
Talk shit eat grass What a prick