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https://nypost.com/2025/10/09/us-news/trump-hails-american-hero-with-columbus-day-proclamation-were-back-italians/

President Trump kicked off his Cabinet meeting Thursday by signing a proclamation honoring Genoese explorer Christopher Columbus – declaring, “We’re back, Italians.”

The proclamation calls for Oct. 13 to be observed as Columbus Day, despite ongoing efforts in several states and cities to celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day and not the man credited for centuries of having discovered America. ...

Before Trump signed the proclamation, White House staff secretary Will Scharf noted that Columbus Day, which has been a federal holiday since 1971, is a “particularly important holiday for Italian Americans who celebrate the legacy of Christopher Columbus, and the innovation and explorer zeal that he represented.”

Trump summed up Scharf’s explanation of the document by saying, “In other words, we’re calling it Columbus Day.”

The remark drew a round of applause from Trump’s Cabinet members, and, according to the president, some in the press.

“That was the press that broke out in applause,” Trump claimed. “I’ve never seen that happen.”

“The press actually broke out in applause. Good.”

But the statue of Columbus that San Francisco's Italian community gave the city is still not back on Telegraph Hill.

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While I was visiting Utah antelope canyon, our guide was native american. He was saying that us is still killing native indirectly, they transport nuclear radiation material thru their land.

MolotovCocktail says

richwicks says

mell says

To use a bit of hyberbole, many of you wouldn't be here if not for Genghis Khan.

NONE of use would be here if it wasn't for Genghis Khan. We wouldn't be here if it wasn't for Hitler, Mao, Stalin, the American Civil War, the Armenian genocide, Karl Marx, etc. etc.

Well, unless you were born before some of those people. That's how random life is. It's not hyperbole.

Finally reason to thank Hitler

Patrick says

Europe also tortured people like that. Many cities had torture rooms.

From brave heart , n French .

British teeth are fked up lol

KgK one says

Europe also tortured people like that.

But they didn't eat them!

Perhaps because the Brits teef were too messed up.

Not sure why europe is continent, it's west asia. It's not surrounded by ocean.

continent noun : large land masses on the earth's surface, surrounded, or mainly surrounded, by ocean and usually consisting of various countries:

Here is some cannibalism stories for you from Europe.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibalism_in_Europe

Start 3 min mark https://youtu.be/FXLxPK_rxxU

You have to go back 11,300 years to make your cannibal argument vs. ~500? That's a stretch. Most Euro ancestors were still in the middle east and India back then.

We're talking Paleolithic. Those people were wiped out by the migrations of the Mesolithic and Neolithic farmers. Scant trace of Paleo in modern Europeans.

We prefer to call Asia, Eastern Europe. That's where we get the East vs. West modifiers from. The East Asians were only a sliver of people until somewhat recently but not necessarily coastal. Generally continental because Continental weather is why people keep epicanthal folds. Some Africans have it, that's where it came from and some Caucasians too in N. Europe. Most of Eastern Europe were white Caucasians until Genghis.

Most current Japanese people too were invaders. The original inhabitants / tribes looked like white people. A small number are still around but not necessarily genetically pure at this point.

The Basques may be a remnant of the Paleolithic people of Europe. Though I never heard of their being cannibals.

Patrick says

The Basques may be a remnant of the Paleolithic people of Europe. Though I never heard of their being cannibals.

Yeah, they have unusual genetics, maybe so?

I believe Basque resembles no PIE language in fundamental formation (aside from loanwords)

DemoralizerOfPanicans says

I believe Basque resembles no PIE language in fundamental formation (aside from loanwords)

I think I heard about that as well.

There is (was?) a Basque restaurant in South SF my co-workers and I ate that. The person who recommended it talked it up and it was such a let down, for me at least.

First, it was expensive and I was a brokester back then. When they brought me my order I swear someone had just dumped a can of pork-n-beans onto a plate and set a lamb shank on top of it. Looked and tasted just like pork-n-beans.

Maga_Chaos_Monkey says

Yeah, they have unusual genetics, maybe so?

Yes:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3309182/

The Basque Paradigm: Genetic Evidence of a Maternal Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region since Pre-Neolithic Times

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KgK one says

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Funny, but:

1. American Indians were continuously invading each other's territory long before Europeans arrived.
2. American Indians didn't have paper then, but now they do, as well as a thousand other conveniences, thanks to Europeans.

1. American Indians were continuously invading each other's territory long before Europeans arrived.
Ww1 ,ww2, French vs British, eu has more wars than anyone. Should they be considered savages n be removed?

2. American Indians didn't have paper then, but now they do, as well as a thousand other conveniences, thanks to Europeans.

Eu didn't have paper either or gun powder, it was created in china. India had books with 100 000 lines 3000 years ago. Eu got Arabic numbers and 0 from Asia. Doesn't mean you kick people out of their land by killing with diseases , or keep moving them till most of them die of starvation.

KgK one says

killing with diseases

There was no deliberate attempt to kill the Indians with the diseases. The "smallpox blankets" hoax by U. Michigan professor Ward Churchill simply got repeated without anyone checking whether it was true.

But it was true that vast numbers of Indians died from diseases they had no immunity to, making an already thin population much thinner.

There are now slightly more Indians in the US than there were at first contact, but it still isn't many.

And you have a point about displacement. Lots of Indians were herded into reservations. But they were not entirely innocent either.

The most recent documented massacre of white settlers by Native Americans occurred on February 26, 1911, near Winnemucca, Nevada, known as the Shoshone Mike Massacre, where a posse killed Shoshone leader Mike Daggett and seven others, including women and children, after a confrontation stemming from cattle theft. This event is often overlooked, as many assume the last major massacre was at Wounded Knee in 1890.

More:

https://www.nytimes.com/1862/08/24/archives/the-indian-massacres-terrible-scenes-of-death-and-misery-in.html

ST. PAUL, Minn., Saturday, Aug. 23.

Parties from the Minnesota River reached here last sight. They state that scouts estimate the number of whites already killed by the Sioux at 500.

This opinion is based on the number of bodies discovered strewn along the road and by trails of blood.

Patrick says

There are now slightly more Indians in the US than there were at first contact, but it still isn't many.

And apparently much more DNA by mass given lots of American's have Am Indian DNA in them and may not even know anything about it. Except for Pocahontas who currently lives in Massachusetts. She knows.

It was a mostly open continent due to the disease issue Patrick described. I've even heard theories that the reason there were so many buffalo was because the diseases killed so many humans off in the 1st 100 years after contact that there wasn't really many people around to hunt them.

The blankets thing is 110% garbage.

Dead Sailors in the Napoleonic Era had their clothes, blankets, etc auctioned off and put aside for the next of kin. Standard USN/RN practice. Others would wrap themselves in a blanket of a Typhus ("Gaol Fever") killed shipmate in their hammock that very night, unwashed until Thursday or Sunday or whenever the ship had it's Make and Mend day.

The Bacterial Theory of infection wasn't fully adopted until the mid-late 19th Century, and even then there were debates about the level of cleanliness and sanitation necessary.

Massasoit and Squanto USED the Pilgrims and their cannon and muskets to offset other Indian groups. Hell, Squanto used his access to the Pilgrims to try to make himself a Sachem or at least a Sachemmaker. It's a helluva interesting story, including the Pilgrims kicking themselves in the ass for having to settle so soon at Plymouth due to the onset of winter, when they could have settled at Boston with a far better harbor, more easily defensible, etc. (The Back Bay wasn't dredged yet, it was an tidal estruary)

When the Pilgrims first arrived, they found a ton of caches of corn and beans buried in abandoned villages due to a recent bout of smallpox, brought probably by European Fishermen in the months previous.

There was such a dearth of Indians, Massasoit and others were more than happy to sell large plots. Which contrary to propaganda, wasn't "$24". It was a good cart load of axes, pots, cauldrons, adzes, etc. worth far more - the S&H for that shit from Europe wasn't cheap and the Pilgrims did NOT have the skills (or smelters or mines) to make it domestically yet.

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When you realize this movies ending is where real apocalypto starts



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Lots of Indians did die from European diseases they had no resistance too, but on the other hand, vast numbers of Indians were also saved by the Spanish from the ritual sacrifice that would have been their fate had the Aztec empire continued.

So the tired and dishonest "white people bad" propaganda should always be countered with honesty and good will.

https://www.kunstler.com/p/dark-tidings

Something in their equivalent of the zeitgeist drove the Aztecs to sharply ramp-up the scale of their human sacrifices in the years just before Hernán Cortés came to their capital city, Tenochtitlán. Bernal Diaz, a foot-soldier in Cortés’s legion, later wrote:

“I remember that they had in a plaza, where there were some shrines, so many places of dead skulls, which could be counted, according to the concert as they were set, that when they appeared they would be more than one hundred thousand; and I say again about one hundred thousand. And in another part of the square were as many rows of bones without meat, bones of the dead, that could not be counted; and they had in many beams many heads hanging from one part to another. And keeping those bones and skulls were three priests, who, as we understood, were in charge of them. . . . “

Cortés had arrived in Mexico in April of 1519 with an expeditionary force of about 500 soldiers and by August of 1521, it was all over. He defeated the empire of a million Aztecs and commenced the systematic demolition of their monuments, including the horrifying great rack-of-skulls (tzompantli) where they displayed their thousands of trophies.

Aztec been around for 100s of years, just like europe using guillotine n buring witches, they executed their political opponents. Also they were only in Mexico area. North America had thousands of tribes. Just like europe there was infighting but no genocide.

KgK one says

Looks like Wiki forgot a few in Asia. Genghis Khan killed 10% of the world during his run.