JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 months agoSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)message-squaremessage-square105linkfedilinkarrow-up1221arrow-down17
arrow-up1214arrow-down1message-squareSince America's namesake Amerigo Vespucci was an immigrant, what should the United States of America be renamed to? (no wrong answers)JohnnyCanuck@lemmy.ca to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 9 months agomessage-square105linkfedilink
minus-squareTug@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up35·9 months agoWhatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up9·9 months agoTruly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.
minus-squareI Cast Fist@programming.devlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·9 months agoThey did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agoIt was America at the time They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down1·9 months agoOr, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed. Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.
minus-squarechildOfMagenta@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up2·9 months agohttps://indigamerica.blogspot.com/
Whatever the Cherokee word for “stolen land” is.
Truly the English specialty: stealing stuff from other people.
Spain owned more
They did, then Britain came along and pulled a deepseek on them :)
It was America at the time
They had a whole revolutionary war over Britain blocking their expansion
Or, you know, the thousands of other languages that existed.
Sorry, distilling everything indigenous down to the Cherokee is a pet peeve of mine.
https://indigamerica.blogspot.com/