Trump admin installs Christopher Columbus statue near White House
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-installs-christopher-columbus-statue-near-white-house-11718574
https://www.newsweek.com/trump-admin-installs-christopher-columbus-statue-near-white-house-11718574
34 Comments
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 72 pts · 169d
There are much more admirable paisans out there. Guglielmo Marconi. Galileo Galilei. Luigi Mangione. Luciano Pavarotti. Leonardo da Vinci.
C'mon man.
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 66 pts · 169d
Of course, but Columbus was pivotal in the massacre of millions of native people. Of course the Trump team wants a statue of him.
neukenindekeuken@sh.itjust.works · 12 pts · 169d
They got upset because Columbus has been "Cancelled" due to all the awful shit he did. So this is their way to "stick" it to the libs.
All they do it performative theater. They don't actually know or care about Columbus, only that by praising him it upsets people with a conscience, so they keep doing it.
JasonDJ@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 169d
It really is just that.
This is what happens when the elementary school bully grows up without getting a good punch in the face along the way.
NewNewAugustEast@lemmy.zip · 4 pts · 168d
Awful shit aside, and it was awful shit, Columbus has nothing to do with north america. He never set foot on what we now call the USA.
sik0fewl@piefed.ca · 9 pts · 169d
They didn’t think they could get away with a slaver confederate general.
SayJess@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 16 pts · 169d
Oh they’ll get there.
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 169d
Don't forget my man Chuck
cmbabul@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 169d
Feels so good
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 169d
jokes aside, this is my favorite jazz album
tomi000@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
You mean Leonardo di Caprio
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 169d
Amerigo Vespucci would make more sense than Columbus if we're looking for explorers.
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 168d
They would short-circuit if they realized america was named after an italian guy...
wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz · 2 pts · 168d
It's so funny how they sleep on Amerigo Vespucci.
It's like they can't cope with knowing that their prescious america was named after an Italian guy. It conflicts with their deeply ingrained belief that the name "America" was somehow ordained by God at the founding of the world.
I wonder what would happen if we tell them Colombus's name wasn't really "Christopher"...
Hapankaali@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 169d
An unveiling of a statue of Robert E. Lee is planned for next week.
ramenshaman@lemmy.world · 26 pts · 169d
I can't tell if you're joking :(
HubertManne@piefed.social · 7 pts · 169d
even if he is its far to likley a possibility with this administration. He likely wants to to insert the head of the confederacy into the pictures of presidents.
obvs@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
Trump's always advocated for inserting heads where they aren’t wanted.
hitstun@feddit.online · 17 pts · 169d
My hometown is named after Christopher Columbus, and even we got rid of most of our statues of him years ago.
Bytemeister@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 169d
Still mad we didn't rename it to Flavortown...
Or are you from one of the minor outlying Columbuses?
gnate@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 169d
After Flavius Columbus, of course
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 169d
Do you live in Cincinnati!?
green_goglin@thelemmy.club · 16 pts · 169d
athatet@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 169d
He also murdered and ate some of them.
melsaskca@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 169d
Makes sense. trump lost his way too.
GutterRat42@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 169d
To celebrate his syphilis diagnosis? I knew his brain couldn't be this naturally bad.
snowcrete@lemmy.wtf · 9 pts · 169d
But… Columbus Circle is right there outside Union Station. Isn’t that enough Columbus for DC? As for the statue being from Baltimore, I’m surprised they could recover it from the Inner Harbor. What a cesspit.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 169d
Next he's gonna issue an EO to rename the city to Washington District of Columbus
madeinthebackseat@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 169d
They should put it where Columbus first set foot in what is now the United States.
notwhoyouthink@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 169d
Nowhere?
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 169d
They are rubbing our faces in it.
kamayatu24@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 169d
Fucking genius
6stringringer@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 168d
I hope the artist/sculptor played the long game. When trump is out for the count perhaps the piece will rot and turn into mush, something akin to wet cardboard.
crystalmerchant@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 168d
I mean he's a fine director and all, but a statue? Really? Who's next, Christopher Nolan?
Samskara@sh.itjust.works · 0 pts · 169d
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBD61skoMk8