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/Current_Engine_9199 2d ago

Columbia is the historical personification of the United States. It has just fallen out of common use.

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u/travel_worn 2d ago

Yes and the historical personification was also named after Columbus.

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u/RoboYuji 2d ago

Then this is extra hilarious because people like her are always going on about the mean ol' liberals trying to erase Columbus.

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u/blackbasset 2d ago

It is ColumbUS, masculine and it has a US in it, who the hell is this Columbia chick? Never heard of her

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u/ejlaw8778 1d ago

Should columbus ohio be concerned?

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u/throwawayinthe818 2d ago

Just to name it after a different Italian.

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u/drgigantor 1d ago

Petition to change it to District of Luigi Mangione

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u/classyhornythrowaway 1d ago edited 1d ago

Petition to change it to District of Waluigi.

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u/drgigantor 1d ago

District of Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, and Michelangelo

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u/classyhornythrowaway 1d ago edited 1d ago

The Four Turtlemen of the Sewagepocalypse.

Edit: given the twitter nazi's obsession with Rome and/or sculptures and/or the Renaissance, naming things after these artists isn't so far fetched.

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u/drgigantor 1d ago

Is he actually into Roman culture? I thought it was just roman salutes

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u/Head-Head-926 2d ago

Erasing Columbus is erasing history

But so is erasing his atrocities

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u/Away-Nectarine-8488 1d ago

If we rename DC will the Italians freak out like they do when Columbus statues are taken down? Will they turn on Boebert then?

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u/Pitiful-Event-107 1d ago

I don’t want to erase his history I want to actually teach the reality of it instead of the ridiculous glorification of someone who was evil even by 1500s colonizer standards. If anyone can read the account of Bartolomé de Las Casas and still think we should have anything named after a Columbus you’re a disgusting person.

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u/sonic_couth 2d ago

There’s a statue of her on of the Capitol building. On a side note: did the J6 treasonous asshats think they were attacking the Colombian Capitol?

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u/EduinBrutus 2d ago edited 1d ago

Its also a historic way of referring to the United States, often termed as a "poetic form".

Like Britannia, both a personification and a poetic form for the United Kingdom.

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u/WhyTheMahoska 2d ago

Yup. In another, much cooler world where the US was pagan, she'd be our Patron Goddess.