Trump erects statue of Christopher Columbus in White House grounds

It's almost always a personality type that prides themselves on being self sufficient and good at doing shit, too. I do IT in schools. While most staff are overwhelmingly on the Left in public education, facilities staff are a lot more mixed. Especially in a rural area like mine. Some are straight up MAGA. They are the type of people that are pretty good at a wide variety of general tasks, which is a good thing, but they are also quick to judge other people who are not good at what they are good at. Just a simple example: I've actually seen these people talking condescendingly about teachers that were taking their car in for an oil change or to put on snow tires rather than do it themselves. Yet the moment they encounter something that is unfamiliar to them, they freeze up like a deer in headlights. I see this all the f****** time in IT because they generally suck at computers and are, for some f****** reason, largely incapable of learning. This really extends beyond conservatives. It's just that they are more prone to being an a****** about it like that. Seems like age 35+ is around the time a lot of people have difficulty learning new things and adapting to new concepts. Even simpler things like discovering new music. I'm in my mid 40's now and still going strong. I'm just hoping if I keep at it - keep exercising that brain meat - that this doesn't happen to me.

Isn’t that literally what the word conservative is? Not necessarily about learning, but being open to change and/or new things. Change requires effort and energy, whether you’re the one changing things or adapting to change.

Pretty much this. A very good example is women’s sports. No men really cared about women’s sports 10 years ago, hell 5-6 years ago even. It was there, they knew about it, but no men, especially conservative men really, cared thing one about girls high school softball, or the WNBA, or women’s national swimming team. If anything they probably saw it as “the damn ladies team” NOW, they fight a literal crusade to SAVE WOMENS SPORTS! It’s SO important that we preserve the holy sanctity of women’s sports! Why? Because there’s like 6 trans people in the entire country playing on women’s sports teams. “WHAT? can’t have THAT! not the trans people!! That’s woke! And different, and nuanced, and I don’t like it!!!” So now conservatives all of a sudden care sooooo much about women’s sports and making sure that women’s sports stays all women because they just care sooo much about women. No. They don’t. They hate women, tbh. They don’t “STAND” for anything, nothing. Especially women’s sports. Even if there are some good arguments about keeping women’s teams all biologically female (and don’t get me wrong there are some good arguments) the issue itself means nothing to them, they don’t care directly about the actual sanctity of women’s teams. They care sooo much much because in their crusade to purify women’s sports, they are painting trans people as evil, and creating a stigma around the LGBTQ population. That makes them very very happy. They want those people to not exist, and it has become a very important issue to them to make those people’s lives as hard as possible. So by proxy, now they care about women’s sports. Columbus, specific beer brands, elementary schools, drag queens, ALL manner of things that meant absolutely nothing to them before. It’s not because they care about these things so much, it’s because they want to hurt specific demographics of people for personal satisfaction.

Reactionary used to be a common word used in political discussions. Seems to have gone the way of the Dodo bird!

Studying Theology is a great way to become a life long atheist

I think they tried to retcon this in one of the sequels by mentioning that they had specifically engineered the dinos to look like what people expected rather than what they actually looked like.

Probably both.

*Trump Files

Didn't he die poor because he was actually terrible at managing a colony?

They flat-out refuse to accept this fact though. So they'd go to the Bahamas and deport him to Liberia or something.

The 2 American citizens they killed looked pretty white.

Yup, he was largely regarded as a grifter idiot by the European monarchs. Imagine that 🤔

And Columbus never set foot on North America in his four voyages.

See also: Oskar Dirlwanger being written up by the SS during the clearance of the Warsaw ghettos for being too cruel and violent.

Exactly. When one of the most brutal colonial powers at the time tells you take it down a notch, you're clearly on the wrong aide of the good person-monster spectrum.

Long/short: they wanted to basically say Italian American immigrants were "white enough" so they started a marketing campaign that turned Columbus into a hero by claiming he was some visionary that thought the world was round even though anyone remotely intelligent at the time already knew that and gave him credit for opening up trade (read: colonization) of the American continents.

Probably because his name is easier to remember and less foreign sounding than the guys that actual landed on the future US land first.

…”my grandfather” - DJT

Columbus was not the founding father by any means. Not for the US, and not for any Caribbean or Latin country in the Americas. That’s not what he’s honored for. He’s just the second or third European to accidentally reach the Americas, which kicked off the age of western colonization.

Birds of a feather spread the same diseases.

Take it easy

Yeh. Before you know it, he'll be honouring Cesar Chavez now that the left don't like him!

This entire thread should serve as a reminder to release all of the Epstein files. And maybe even call for arrests and charges too.

Just wait until Juneteenth.

He's the guy who seized all the airports during the revolution. AmIright?