• La Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    There’s something like 90 places named “Washington” in America and I’m sure there’s some chucklefuck out there who thinks another 10 would be perfectly fine.

    • DornerStan@lemmygrad.ml
      11·
      2 months ago

      Some lib on reddit was going off about Stalingrad’s name and another person linked the wiki page for places named after Washington lol

      • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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        2 months ago

        i was going to write a joke about stalin being worse by pretending that stalin owned personal slaves like washington but in looking up some facts about george’s slaves i found this absolute gem of a sentence

        • yunah-knowles@lemmygrad.ml
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          2 months ago

          for fifty six years of personally owning slaves, george washington wondered if this was unethical and passionately hungered to free the slaves he personally owned for fifty six years (which he did not, in fact, free)