A couple times haha

• Presses reply
• Types an insightful comment
• Looks at it. There’s something wrong with it. He just doesn’t know what.
• Erases it. Starts over.
• *Still doesn’t feel right *
• Hits cancel, discards the comment, and goes back to doom scrolling.

As an African citizen I completely agree with this. We don’t even need internet here. In fact, I’m posting this reply via carrier pigeons.

Huh? Pretty sure Guantanamo Bay is still open to this day. Not on the same scale nowadays, sure; but the CCP never claimed freedom as part of its core values either.

• Nothing More – Fade In/Fade Out With A Boner
• Banners – Start A Riot With A Boner
• Falling In Reverse – Popular Monster With A Boner
• Gang Of Youth – Achilles, Come Down With A Boner

Is this how sovcits really started?

Do you think Native Americans would agree to define him as an explorer too, then?

But this is accurate. Columbus was an explorer, that was his mission. I’ve read his letters to Spain and he wanted to find bounty for the Spanish crown to convince them to give him more money.

And Adolf Hitler was a politician. That was his “mission”. We don’t define Hitler by his career though.

He murdered, tortured, enslaved kidnapped, interrogated, and raped people to find even more bounty.

I guess he went above and beyond on that mission, yeah? By your definition he seems more like a bounty-hunter/privateer and not an explorer, but worse in every way. (And how is rape supposed to tie into this narrative about his goal of securing more funding anyway?)

But he was an explorer, not a conquistador or conqueror. Those were military positions.

So by your logic, not having a military position pardons any atrocities he committed and waives the reason to call him anything other than “explorer”? He was a butcher and a rapist. That’s a fact.

You don’t need a rank and a hat to become a sanctioned piece of shit. That can happen sans the hat.

This post is ignorant.

Is this your opinion, or an “accurate” fact too?

(Replying to yours to officially welcome you into this pile of brothers/sisters/siblings where we type in parentheses and where none shall be ever lonely)

Yet they both committed atrocities (torture, murder, rape and god knows what else) and only one is being hailed as “explorer”.

Edit: I’m not saying we should hail Genghis Khan as an explorer, I’m saying that Christopher Columbus should be deplored as a murderer and a marauder, not praised as an explorer.

(Also deleting mine since you did the research!)

You should stop overanalysing the problem. Let’s keep it simple and have a crack at this later.

“You blow, Jobs, you arrogant prick…”

And ATMs. Lots of ATMs.

And yet most work despite not being officially certified. Use ProtonDB if you want more accurate empirical data on what works and what doesn’t.

Thank you both. Had this saved on my phone and never figured out where it came from (probably discord). I didn’t know it was cropped.

Edit: Cool! Lemmy lets you change the image when you edit the post! Fixed!

Ok. I’m convinced.

Actual Egyptian. Can confirm.

And just in time for climate change to redefine what “room temperature” is.

We live in interesting times.

These jokes can get rather convoluted.