There you go again, poutine on airs…
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Most Native Americans mark that day as a National Day of Mourning, and with good reason. Columbus and crew arrived with a slate of Old World diseases to which the natives had no immunity nor resistance and thus that set of a series of pandemics that wiped out approximately 60 - 80 million souls. Also, good ol’ Wrong Way Chris began the ignoble American tradition of enslaving non-white people.
Knowing that, I can’t think of a single reason to celebrate Columbus and the epidemic calamity his greed unleashed upon a hemisphere that was getting along quite nicely thank you for thousands of years.
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O god. There goes this thread.
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Nice one, spuddy.
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Hey, I thought it was a bit cheesy, but seeing everyone’s reaction was just gravy…
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Italian immigrants (primarily from southern Italy and Sicily) were considered not much better than ex-slaves. There are multiple cases of Italians being lynched in the late 1800s, including a mass lynching in New Orleans in 1891. Italian-Americans pushed the Columbus myth to differentiate themselves from Black Americans. The insidious power of white-supremacy pushes every ethnic group to step on each other, trying to get into the “WHITE” category.
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You’re just trying to get under everyone’s skin and drive a wedge between us.
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Hey, I’ll admit it was half-baked, but I tried…
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Someone needs to knock that chip off your shoulder.
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Don’t crinkle your nose at me.
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Also Saint Brendan’s Day.
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Even in unanimity, the aircraft carrier of government takes a long time to execute a turn. I would guess that this will not go into effect until '22.
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It sure as heck wasn’t Samsonite.
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Not so much a thread as a shoestring.
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Not with self-executing laws. Those go into immediate effect when signed into law. If Congress intended to have this effective next year, they’d have put that in the legislation, which they did not.
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Around here, you could just rig up one of those “drinking bird” toys to keep pulling the lever.
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And someone should have called for a roll-call. The RRR’s who declined to object should have been forced to either vote in the affirmative or go on record as opposing it for history, and the electorate, to judge them.
Given Black workers’ disproportionate numbers in the federal workforce, I think there’s gonna be a lot of giving of shits about what it’s for.
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Holidays benefit a lot more folks than just pubic sector. Many private companies follow with either time off, premium pay, or the like.
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