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[โ€“] Didros@beehaw.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

They were not the only white people to have ever been there though. The colonists could have been slaughtered and those were French decendents or something though. There is no way to prove what happened.

[โ€“] jimrob4@midwest.social 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Historian here. Prove? No. Draw a highly likely conclusion that should accompany every telling as the most likely explanation? Yes.

[โ€“] Didros@beehaw.org -2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thank you for the professional input RimJob4.

[โ€“] bermuda@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[โ€“] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A Freudian Slip or a joke? Either is funny to me.

[โ€“] Didros@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's pretty common when people want to have an edgy name in a game with name filtering. You just swap the first letters in two words. Like datfick4, bamrutt4, that kinda thing.

[โ€“] jimrob4@midwest.social 1 points 1 year ago

No problem Dildo.