A mail-in farewell speech. Can't decipher what it's about, a recipe for potato salad?
Bye Felicia!
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As it should be for racist pieces of shit.
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She is basically nothing more than a mail order bride, that got into this country on questionable means, that posed nude for magazines, that literally stole other peoples' speeches to use them as her own with her ridiculous accent. She is also a piece of shit with her "Be Best" campaign that didn't remind her shitty husband how to actually be best. And then wearing that fucking coat, fuck her.
So.. About the garden of American heroes... why the fuck is Columbus on that list? He was a rapist murderer, an italian who traveled thanks to the spanish crown and never ever set foot on the americas (only on some of the islands)...
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10 bucks on pardoning his family, and i would put 5 bucks (not afraid to lose em), some of the rioters.
Forgive my english, as i'm not a native speaker
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Columbus, for a good long time in America, was taught as a noble explorer who valiantly braved treacherous oceans to discover the new world. That narrative usually then does a giant time skip from 1492 to the Pilgrims landing at Plymouth Rock in 1620, with nary another thought put to Columbus or his genocide.
However, that narrative as of late has luckily come under much greater scrutiny, with a lot more being taught (at least in colleges) about how Columbus was actually a violent, exploitative and feckless man, upon whom even his contemporaries said "this guy is fucking nuts."
Much like with doing away with the "lost noble cause of the confederacy" angle, pushing this greater understanding of history is ruffling the feathers of many conservatives who want the American lineage to be one of only shining examples: That you don't have to assess your current actions, because the spotless glories of the past have ordained you with the power to take action beyond reproach. Revealing that some part of what created you was actually stained with blood, destruction, and murder perpetrated on innocent people calls that whole narrative into question.
“Do not lose time on daily trivialities. Do not dwell on petty detail. For all of these things melt away and drift apart within the obscure traffic of time. Live well and live broadly. You are alive and living now. Now is the envy of all of the dead.” ~ Emily3, World of Tomorrow
Words to live by.
142,022 new cases and 1,422 deaths bringing the total to 408,620. The numbers today are largely meaningless both because it's Monday and because it's a holiday and therefore it's woefully underreported. Tomorrow's numbers will likely be affected as well.
Not sure where I'll be taking this once the TRUMP SHITSHOW comes to an end given that it's likely to be an ongoing urgent problem for most of the year still thanks to Trump's admin fucking it up from the start. I'd rather not pollute the General COVID-19 thread with politics (which is why I've always done the updates here, for those of you still wondering) and I'm not sure I want to dump it in the Biden thread--unless his administration also starts fucking things up. I'll figure it out by the time the end of the thread comes, I guess.
Stay safe, folks.
Also worth a mention is that the first celebration of Columbus Day in the United States was in 1891 after the brutal lynching of 11 Italian-Americans in an effort to mend diplomatic problems with Italy and build some solidarity with Italian-Americans. I don't know what the average American thought of Columbus in 1840 (if anything), but by the early 1900s, the holiday was clearly about celebrating Italian-American culture. Cultures have their heroes and the historical figure often doesn't have that much to do with it.