Since America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)

JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca · 1 个月前

Tug@lemmy.world · 1 个月前

Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.

Flying Squid@lemmy.world · 1 个月前

Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.

Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.

childOfMagenta@lemm.ee · 29 天前

I Cast Fist@programming.dev · 1 个月前

Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.

Bdtrngl@lemmy.world · 1 个月前

What’s the only reason the pyramids are still in Egypt? They’re too big to fit in the British museum.

I Cast Fist@programming.dev · 1 个月前

Too big to fit English ships you mean ;)

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 30 天前

Spain owned more

I Cast Fist@programming.dev · 29 天前

They did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)

ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca · 29 天前

It was America at the time

They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion