Coach Pāṇini ® (@paninid@mastodon.world)

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This is how you know they never actually read Little House on the Prairie.

That shit was bleak af.

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@paninid @Kierkegaanks and they were racist, murdering asshats who supported no assistance for those in need but had no problem with federal land giveaways.

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@revndm @Kierkegaanks
Yes

reflected Li
capitalism. Eastern farms had rarely been self-sufficient; almost
from the beginning, American farmers produced for market. But
Western farms carried the commercial imperative to an extreme,
in many cases becoming outdoor factories, specializing in particu-
lar crops with all the single-mindedness of the most highly orga-
nized Eastern mill. Eastern towns had been sited by God, as it
were, where rivers joined, went over falls, or grew too shallow for
oceangoing vessels. Western towns were sited by railroad corpora-
tions, along lines where their surveyors said the grading would be
easiest and their accountants predicted the operation would be most
profitable. Westerners were rugged individualists chiefty in their
dreams (and the dreams of their Eastern and foreign admirers); in
real life they were likely to draw paychecks for digging in corporate
mines, plowing corporate fields, or chasing corporate cattle.
The settlement of the postwar West brought the frontier expe-
rience in America to an end. To those who applauded this latest
conquest of nature and indigenous peoples, it seemed a triumph of
American values. And so it was. But the values that mattered most
by the waning years of the nineteenth century, and that figured
most prominently on this final frontier, were the same capitalist

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