2piradians@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoIf you could Thanos snap one person, thing, or event from history...what would you choose?message-squaremessage-square85linkfedilinkarrow-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 · 2 years agomessage-square85linkfedilink
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up27arrow-down1·2 years agoI say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13arrow-down1·2 years 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-down1·2 years agoThe acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·2 years ago Christophorus You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeBanned from communitylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoOh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
minus-squareElaine@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years agoWell there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6·2 years 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-up1·2 years 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.