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Everybody thinks they're Galileo (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tbf, we should still be laughing at Columbus. He didn't prove the Earth was round, we knew that already. He died believing he had "discovered" India. That and he was a racist, baby killing, monster that inflicted such barbaric actions towards the Native Americans that even members of his own crew were like "Whoa there. They might be godless savages, but this is really fucked up. What the fuck is wrong with you?"

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

To his defense, what you describe was pretty much the rule back then before the 1700, for "nobles" I mean.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago

He was literally arrested and imprisoned in Spain because of the fucked up shit he did in the Americas. Even the aristocrats thought he was fucked up, which is really saying something.