2piradians@lemmy.world to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoIf you could Thanos snap one person, thing, or event from history...what would you choose?message-squaremessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up11arrow-down10
arrow-up11arrow-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 months agomessage-square83fedilink
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoI say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
minus-squareElaine@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 months agoWell there goes me but at least my native ancestors would have had a chance to thrive.
minus-squareMister Neon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-22 months 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-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months 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-up0·2 months agoThe acts of Christophorus Columbus directly perpetrated by him range from holocaustic to apocalyptic in scale.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months ago Christophorus You missed the opportunity to call him Mr. Christoffelees.
minus-squareCall me Lenny/Leni@lemm.eeMlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 months agoOh… I thought it was a pun on phosphorus used as a jab.
I say this as an American, from the bottom of my heart I wish Christopher Columbus never existed.
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.
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.