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[–] [email protected] 83 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Worst part is, he wouldn't be arrested for genocide in 2024. He would probably be seen as lesser of two evils or something stupid like that.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago

Something savages something something terrorism

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

He'd probably be Trump's running mate.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Of course, there was over 100 years between Columbus' voyage and the voyage of the pilgrims on the Mayflower.

[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago

, which also brought genocide

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Alright, I thought I had forgotten all my grade school history there for a second.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, I thought he was on the Nina or Pinta or Santa Maria or something like that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Niña Piñata, obvs.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 5 months ago

June-ocide

COME ON, IT WAS RIGHT THERE

[–] [email protected] 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

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"

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Dude check out April Flowers (aka April Summers) she was the best ever, blast from the past from the 80s and 90s.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

In this vein I love how companies even spin up entire domains with affiliate links like top10airfryers.net or bestvacuumcleaners2024.com.

And then there source for the ratings is Amazon customer reviews or even the manufacturer's online shop 🙄.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago

Columbus was already dead for over hundred years.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yay! :D That's a great usage of it, good call!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

OP, try again with La Pinta, La Niña or La Santa María

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

true, but did you have to write in cum?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Columbo, however, had just one more thing to ask before arresting a murderer.