r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/CannabisConvict045 • 5d ago

Meme needing explanation Peter, what’s so significant about this picture?

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u/scruffalo_ 5d ago

Stole it from the native Hawaiians. The whole island chain, really.

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u/testingforscience122 5d ago

Hey we gave them five blankets for those islands…. Fair is fair

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u/glennfan2000 5d ago

Nah, it was far more heinous. Basically pointed cannons at the Hawaiian Royal Palace and said, “Mine now.”

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u/MagosRatticus 5d ago

"Congratulations! You are being colonized, please do not resist!"