• flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz
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    5 months ago

    Preempting all the “he was a man of his time” apologists:

    Columbus was arrested during his lifetime because his actions were considered awful by his contemporaries.

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      5 months ago

      Specifically, Columbus was the first transatlantic slaver - although he went in the nontraditional West-to-East direction. And was imprisoned by Queen Isabel for that shit.

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    5 months ago

    I’d say April Showers is a great porn name, but these days you gotta value search engine optimization, which is why my porn name is “Best Airfryer 2024”

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    5 months ago

    Is that title the answer to the CharDee MacDennis trivia question, “Columbus is asshole. Why Charlie hate?” I hope so, because that’s what it made me think of

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    5 months ago

    The Mayflower brought the Pilgrims to America, not Columbus (which is also, for some reason, misspelled in the title of this post). I’m guessing OP didn’t pay much attention to their history class this year in what I’m going to assume is middle-school.