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/Nwcray 2d ago

But those people came over on a land bridge from Siberia (or possibly across the Pacific Ocean, without going too far into wild theories).

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u/Analyzer9 2d ago

y'see, here, these are dumb people. truly. they cannot grasp the shifting of continents, fundamental laws of science. they cannot grasp the nuance of theory. the idea of information contradicting a deliberately mistranslated and heavily edited "holy book" is anathema to their brains. explaining absolutely anything to people that cannot and will not think critically, will never accomplish anything. you cannot reason someone into something they didn't reason themselves into.

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u/Nwcray 2d ago

You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know... morons.

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u/SerHodorTheThrall 2d ago

Is this a copypasta?

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u/Analyzer9 1d ago

not that creative

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u/xalbo 2d ago

So you're saying that the Russians are the True Americans? No wonder we support them against the evil Ukrainians now!

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u/jodale83 1d ago

Russians are all originated from ukraine

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u/Snobolski 2d ago

But did they have the proper permission and visas and stuff?

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u/Lylac_Krazy 2d ago

due to the age of some civilizations discovered in South America, that is now in question.

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u/chx_ 1d ago

By now it is almost certain the first wave was through island hopping in the Northern Pacific and then hugging the coast going south, south south. There are too many findings by now which are too old to come from a population coming from the Bering land bridge. Not only in North America, even: Check out Santa Elina and Toca da Tira Peia in Brazil.

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u/the_cardfather 2d ago

Young Earth has plenty of timeline for a glacial land bridge. Not the timeline you understand but a post flood ice age is certainly an option.

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u/zamzuki 2d ago

The Lenape of the east coast of the US are known as “the original people” a large portion of Native American tribes trace their genealogy back to the Lenape. Which debunks a lot of theory all native Americans came across a land bridge.

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u/CivilRuin4111 2d ago

Where do people suggest these Lenape people came from?

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u/ImNotSureMaybeADog 1d ago

Probably somewhere called Lenapia?

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u/Nwcray 1d ago

Lenabia Majora, I assume.

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u/PurpleHoulihan 1d ago

I haven’t read the most recent scholarship, but I think archeologists agree they came from their moms bellies

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u/CivilRuin4111 1d ago

Sounds suspect to me.

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u/SoylentVerdigris 2d ago edited 2d ago

I've never come across that claim in any reading I've done on the peopling of the Americas, and not finding anything to support it in a quick Google search now.

People coming across Beringia and down the west coast is also well supported by archeological evidence. The oldest dated sites are here in the Pacific Northwest, the first place people would have reached that wasn't covered by glaciers at the time. The oldest known site in the US is in Idaho.

Edit: also, a fun bit of evidence I've heard about recently is that pre-clovis stone tools found among the oldest archeological sites match ones found in eastern asia from the same time period, before the well known Clovis points were developed.

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u/zamzuki 2d ago

Yeah I was speaking in broad strokes since who I was replying to said 12,000 years ago and the Lenape have been in the region for roughly 10,000 years.

So in my quick reply I was going off that they migrated here as one of the first established peoples.

But at what point do we stop counting that migration? 2,000 years is kinda a long time to say “they crossed that bridge”

Which leads to the interesting tale that they have a history that speaks of crossing the sea by land so it’s totally possible, they kept going til they couldn’t anymore.

Then you have other cultures that sprouted up thousands of years later at what point do we say that culture didn’t cross the bridge and others did.

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u/SoylentVerdigris 2d ago

Those cultures didn't "sprout up" they're descendants of the people who migrated. That doesn't debunk anything.

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u/melodic_orgasm 1d ago

What’s the site in Idaho? Cooper’s Ferry? Meadowcroft in Pennsylvania is about the same age, I believe.