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And yet, in the end, it was Amerigo Vespucci who the entire western lands were named after.
And yet, in the end, it was Amerigo Vespucci who the entire western lands were named after.
They’re bringing back people from the dead when America used to be great
What other way is there to respond to this?
There’s an idea of fusion voting.
I got: “We only use 10% of our brains. Modern neuroimaging has shown that we use most of our brain.” In the 90’s I thought this was not in fact, but urban legend, the whole time.
Also: “Christopher Columbus discovered America. Indigenous peoples had been living in the Americas for thousands of years before Columbus arrived.” I didn’t realize that it was implied no one was here when he came.
One could argue that it’s their best life. To be richer than rich, one would likely get poorer in spirit. There’s a reason the root of many evils is the thing that it is.
I can’t imagine why it would feel bad for others to not be starving to death while they did reasonably well - which there’s room for!
In truth, that Jesus sounds sus.
“Anne Frank’s Diary, too sexual? That sounds like ‘Tucker Carlson, too athletic’” I lol’d.
That a truth of our time is that the fate of so many rests on these relatively few idiotic swing voters speaks to just how terrible the state of affairs have become.
That’s quite a big instance you got there
That sounds like such a neat childhood! I wish I had those documentaries growing up.
Same as it ever was?
Would it be accurate to say more people would know what the latter tastes like than the former?
I’m about three-quarters through Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged, and I wonder how she would interpret how reality played out in this country, being that her biggest fears would come from the value system she thought of as the solution.
Did you try to save it all on the way down and make things worse?
As an American, it feels more like looking around in your cage.
It’s precisely rotation through the higher dimension that cannot be undone in the lower one. So… nice thought, I think?