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| Brenda: The shorter trade route to India from Spain was an overland route. Which was 6,000 miles but Columbus estimated was 10,000 miles. Even going around the Cape of Good Hope was 10,000miles. |
| Brenda: The demonization comes from the fact that he gave a road map right to my and all native people's continent. And I mean South, Central and North America. He was looking for a shorter trade route to India. What documents are left from that time show he was petitioning the Spanish Crown for ships saying he wanted to give the crown and shorter route. And they already knew about the West Indies, so he figured that sailing west over the Atlantic would be about a 3,000 mile journey to India proper. |
| Brenda: True but he was getting money from the Crown of Spain. And I don't mean he was an idiot for running a fleet. But the church at the time was preaching flat earth. As a sailor he should have been able to see through it. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't know. When I grew up he was talked about as a legend. Seems as much as they used to lionize him, they've been villainizing him for the last 15 or so years. Truth is probably somewhere in the middle. Unless he was a nepo-baby, you don't get to run a fleet of ships on somebody else's dime if you're a stupid person. Maybe he was. Can't say I'm very well read up on him other than the gradeschool history classes, and I view most history books as fan fiction with a bit of truth sprinkled in. |
| Brenda: Decided today to look up some facts on Columbus. You know he was an idiot. |
| 6ixStringJack: Shut the fuck up, crybaby. You're a fool. |
| THG: She brought Trump you moron. That's what everybody does, buy Trump. |
| 6ixStringJack: POLITICO: Venezuelan opposition leader dedicates Nobel Prize to Trump for ‘decisive support’
“I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause,” she wrote in a post on X.
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How's that make you feel, you dumb little shit? |
| 6ixStringJack: You're not even a person anymore, dude. You're just a wi-fi range extender for propaganda and lies. |
6ixStringJack:  You're so stupid you won't remember anything that happened today a month from now and you have no concept of the amount of similar bullshit you've posted here over the years. It's all bullshit. You are bullshit. |
| THG: And that's because he wants more |
| THG: Republicans are pissed Trump committed troops to protect Qatar. He's bought and paid for. He could give a fuck about peace. He's out to protect his investers. |
| 6ixStringJack: You are just a sad little boy. Even Hillary Clinton praised Trump today, but here you are being your sad, petty self. |
| 6ixStringJack: I don't care what he wants. He made it sound like he didn't care either. |
| THG: He really wants that peace prize. So much so he can't stop compelling people to suggest he get it. too funny... |
| THG: He really wants that peace prize. So much so he can't stop compelling people to suggest he get it. too funny... |
6ixStringJack: And, BTW... it sounds like she's a friend of Trump's. She's the opposition against Maduro.  |