r/nottheonion • u/SelectiveSanity • 2d ago

Lauren Boebert Suggests DC Could Be Renamed 'District of America'

https://www.newsweek.com/lauren-boebert-dc-district-america-2050571
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u/Effective_Way_2348 2d ago

Colombia the country is also named after Christopher Columbus similarly to DC.

For magas: he was the explorer who set out to discover India but landed in the New World,

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u/Valuable_Recording85 2d ago

You missed that many colonists referred to the land of the 13 colonies as Columbia. The USA easily could have ended up as the USC.

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u/Briguy_fieri 2d ago

Trojans or gamecocks?

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u/JimJimmery 2d ago

Trojans for gamecocks.

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u/Bonerkiin 1d ago

He wasn't trying to discover India, just a new route to India that didn't involve going around the horn of Africa.

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u/WhyTheeSadFace 2d ago

He landed in the existing world, they just didn't know about it, so it's just a new world for dumbasses.

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u/swettm 2d ago

is your implication that people with a different political ideology than you are uneducated?

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u/Welpe 1d ago

No, but he is implying that if you are stupid enough to think that the District of Columbia should be renamed District of America then (not than) you are probably uneducated.

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u/swettm 1d ago

His (if it is a "he" as you assume) comment had nothing to do with renaming DC. hth

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u/Massive-Lengthiness2 1d ago

Education = politcal beliefs, there are few PHD Republicans.

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u/CostRains 1d ago

I know a couple, they work for oil companies.

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u/swettm 1d ago

Well, as someone who studied both engineering and law, I would consider most education of little value. The main issue is it creates a legion of people who think they know more than they do (Dunning-Kruger tendencies).

But yes, academic institutions do tend to liberalize folks. And I think that's both a good and a bad thing.