this specific comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27353849
the context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27352807
the post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27352325
warning: don't go to any of the above links (or the orange site in general) unless you are prepared to potentially withstand a lethal amount of techbroism
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COLUMBUS DIDN'T EVEN FOUND AMERICA AS A NATION, HE STOLE EVERYTHING THAT WASN'T NAILED DOWN AND GAVE IT TO THE QUEEN OF SPAIN FOR GOOD BOY POINTS
I am basically Puerto Rican Matt
Except louder, angrier and I cook better than him
Probably
no i mean this is the dunk tank, so aren't we supposed to post bad takes? (not opposing the must-brigade rule btw)
I mean even back when I was a naive libshit techbro, I found the people on HN to be insufferable nerds with a weird religious obsession for Paul Graham and the word 'entrepreneur'.
The fact that there was an episode about this is one of the reasons why The Sopranos is one of my favorite shows
Speaking as an IT worker, the IT community is an endless sea of smug libs high on the smell of their own farts, thinking they're experts on every problem in the world because they know how for loops work
Proud anti-Italian racist here. When do I get a time machine so I can sink Columbus's ship?
I mean it is true that Italians pushed colombus to be accepted I to the American civil religion as whites with a connection to the country.
But on the other hand fuck this weirdo
Columbus was prosecuted by the Spanish for what he did in America. Guy was considered immoral by the standards of his own time
I wonder if this person has any opinions about the imperialists' erasure of the entire Taino people :thonk:
Columbus jumps off the boat and yells "First!" making him the first american of all time
Remember, when communists lynched indigenous Italian leader Mussolini?
Yeah seriously, is this not why we hate on columbus in the first place?
