2piradians@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agoIf you could Thanos snap one person, thing, or event from history...what would you choose?message-squaremessage-square87fedilinkarrow-up161arrow-down18
arrow-up153arrow-down1message-squareIf you could Thanos snap one person, thing, or event from history...what would you choose?2piradians@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 7 days agomessage-square87fedilink
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up26arrow-down1·7 days agoI say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12arrow-down1·7 days agoThere was a French explorer who “discovered” America four years before Columbus. So Columbus’ erasure wouldn’t even affect the one purpose he had.
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up14arrow-down1·7 days agoThe acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·7 days ago Christophorus You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 days agoOh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
minus-squareElaine@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·7 days agoWell there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·edit-27 days agoI’m a white dude that’s obsessed with Mesoamerican history. Holy fuck I would prefer the civilization your ancestors would come up with than what my idiot dirt farmer progenitors from Europe ended up creating.
minus-squaredjsoren19@yiffit.netlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·6 days agoI’ve good news, the continent’s fate was sealed long before that because colonialism was never going to stop.
I say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
There was a French explorer who “discovered” America four years before Columbus. So Columbus’ erasure wouldn’t even affect the one purpose he had.
The acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
It’s his non-anglicized name.
Oh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
Well there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
I’m a white dude that’s obsessed with Mesoamerican history. Holy fuck I would prefer the civilization your ancestors would come up with than what my idiot dirt farmer progenitors from Europe ended up creating.
I’ve good news, the continent’s fate was sealed long before that because colonialism was never going to stop.