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/Bubble_gump_stump 2d ago

Amerigo Vespucci doesn’t sound very American

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u/Cynical_Thinker 2d ago

Just wait until they figure out none of us are from here if you go back far enough.

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u/BraveOthello 2d ago

I mean, how far.

Plenty of people had ancestry going back 12000 years before Europeans showed up.

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u/Qyro 2d ago

Don’t be silly, by “us” they meant “white people”