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A city councillor in Cork, Ireland is advocating to erect a public statue of a mosquito. It wouldn’t be a statue of just any mosquito , but the pest that some — at least in Cork–believe bit the English invader, Oliver Cromwell — sending him home to die of what was once known as 'Cork fever,' an old name for malaria.

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[–] teyrnon@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Jesus Christ man, I never got that part of the story, that is what turned me against Christopher Columbus or obviously Leopold and belgium, that is some fucked up shit.

Which is to say the cutting out the hands part, Columbus famously with cut the hands off of the children of Hispaniola they did not bring him enough gold which there was not enough gold to bring him, he was looking for a placer gold, there's not that much. But King Leopold in Belgium did some of the same shit it's really just awful to read about but Jesus Christ to know that same kind of thing happened in Ireland is well it's not surprising. I was already well aware there's a lot of atrocities but none of them were ever spelled out to me I just read them as the English army did a bunch of nasty shit.