[roflulz]

isn't the US Military the equivalent of the "Manchu" here? (The US Military wiped out the natives, took all their land, and brought and enforced slavery on this land?) Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago? Isn't all of California land that the military just kinda stole from Mexico?

[neither_color]

The answer to all of your questions is no, but this kind of discussion belongs on reddit anyways.

[14u2c]

>Didn't the US just annex Hawaii as an official state a few years ago?

I suppose if you consider 1898 a few years ago.

[roflulz]

it became a state in 1959 with everything finally crushed out of it - before that it was still a quasi territory with more independence

[14u2c]

I knew I'd get this. Yes, true, but 1898 was the date of "annexation"[0].

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newlands_Resolution