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Show threadReiner Jung 🇬🇱 🇺🇦 🇪🇺Oct 9, 2023
@oldladyplays
Great picture. Instead of a celebration day, it should be a commemoration day or better a week. In the past I would have recommended things like commemoration locations, events and content in school. However, we all have this in Germany, but the fascists could get 20% in the next federal election. So I am open for suggestions.
Show threadJohn ChapmanOct 9, 2023
Apparently, across the pond, it's Columbus Day.
Here in the UK Columbus is considered to be one of the world's greatest socialists because:
He didn't know where he was going.
When he got there he didn't know where he was.
When he came back he didn't know where he had been.
And, he did it all on borrowed money.
Show threadoatmealOct 9, 2023
@jaydax funny. Because neo-liberalism is such a huge success and the uk is doing great.
Show threadJohn ChapmanOct 9, 2023
@oatmeal Well this was a Tory joke in the time of Harold Wilson but it could apply to today's Conservatives with the exception that they would finance the money at 35% interest.
Show threadoatmealOct 9, 2023
@jaydax haaaa :)
Show thread:labrys-xf-p: HighPriestessTerra :labrys-xf-b: Oct 9, 2023
@oldladyplays i literally forgot it was """""columbus day""""" (sarcastic airquotes) until you mentioned it. I wish more ppl knew how shit he was
Show threadN Oct 9, 2023
@oldladyplays and so many others
Show threadMike Dee Oct 9, 2023

@oldladyplays Why Columbus Day was created
Christopher Columbus was an Italian who never set foot in the new world (he made it to the Bahamas), but the seeds of him having a holiday named after him were sown after the lynching of 11 Italian immigrants in New Orleans in 1891, according to NPR.

Italian immigrants started moving to the United States in bigger numbers around the 1820s.

Following the lynchings, President Benjamin Harrison created Columbus Day as not only a way to commemorate the 400th anniversary of Columbus’ journey in 1492, but also to highlight the sacrifice and positive contributions of Italian-Americans throughout the country.

Show threadMatt Barker (he/him)Oct 9, 2023
@oldladyplays well said 👍👍