And the trunk is full of, like, lady business.

How is that a Strawman?

Exactly. All she needed was to be in a coma for a year where she had become pregnant just like a day or two prior to her going into the coma. She never ran a test and the doctors found out when she was in.

SMALLPOX, NOT ACTIVE EFFORTS BY THE EUROPEANS, killed off the natives. That is undeniable. What’s more, the ONLY instance where smallpox was potentially used intentionally occurred 271 YEARS AFTER COLUMBUS.

The thing is, Columbus is celebrated throughout Latin American and South America. He has holidays in Columbia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and several other Latin American nations and South American nations have holidays attributed to the landing.

First, I looked up your “smallpox blankets.” Turns out it is a matter of scholarly dispute: some people say it never happened and have evidence.

“Beer?!” How is beer.... as my bro friends say it is the cause AND SOLUTION to all the worlds problems.

But the majority of deaths occurred far before “small pox blankets.” The entire empire that spanned the upper Midwest in present day Ohio, Indiana, and Michigan died without the Europeans realizing it for hundreds of years.

That is the best you got? Pretend like Marx has the answers?

But people aren’t celebrating Columbus because he was a mass murderer either. They are celebrating the Columbian Exchange.

Yet as others have pointed out, modern medicine, transportation, communications, etc resulted from the deal. The lions share of death was due to small pox, which neither the Indians nor the Europeans knew about in a modern context. ANY contact prior to the small pox inoculation would have resulted in the same.

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Except that the law in question does not allow open carry. It allows concealed carry only. Openly carrying a firearm is still illegal.

Those are just “theories” though. I’ve watched tons of specials about those theories, most disproven. And the few that had any way to be substantiated showed that if someone did make it to the West, they almost certainly did not make it back.

Nope. I figured he probably did have the papers. I know people who do hunts like this: they are generally really above board with the legality. One guy I know, he and his wife hunt, actually spends the month of October helping game wardens in Ohio find and arrest poachers.

But the "resistors" are hardly saints. It's like Ta-Nehsi Coates: he named his son after a West African man who fought French Colonialism. But that same man founded an Empire via conquest, and he did so by taking weapons and supplies from the British. He wasn't attempting to resist colonization: he was just trying to…

No one is acting like nothing happened. The admittance that Columbus was brutal is common. As far as the "benefits" go, the same can be said of most cultural exchanges.

The Brits also celebrate a shit ton of conquerors, as do the Italians. For that matter so do all cultures. The Middle East and Islam was founded by a man who expanded his control through conquest, the Far East was all about conquest. Africa is a long history of conquest and reconquest and the liberators became…

The point of Columbus Day celebrates the Columbian Exchange. As someone else said in Kara’s other thread, at no point prior to Columbus were the Eastern and Western Hemispheres in existence to members of either Hemisphere. The people in the Americas had no idea of the other continents, and the same to the people in…

It’s entirely possible that the state of electricity would not be where it is. Indeed the US has more Noble Prizes in all categories than any other country, except France which has literature. And much of Western invention was driven by the discovery of North America: steam ships in particular were developed as they…