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   Kierkegaanks regretfully (kierkegaanks@beige.party)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:51:46 JST Kierkegaanks regretfully

   Just before the Boston Tea party raid Pete had to go home because he had chosen an Indian Sikh costume

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     Tess Arnold (tessrants@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 21-Feb-2025 03:51:43 JST Tess Arnold

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     • Milcom Miasma

     @mmiasma @Kierkegaanks
     India was known as Hindustan at the time. Best reckoning for where the moniker "Indians" come from is Columbus's phrase to describe them as "a people in God." The 'in God' part, in the original language, is "in dios."
     In dios becomes Indian.
     (Very much the same way that Kong Fu Xi became Confucius.)

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     And thus a good time for Pete was ruined because of an Italian explorer dead 267 years prior who believed in dead reckoning and a world with two fewer continents.

     And they say we've no connection to history... People have been failing history (and geography) for ages.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.