After having a semi-frustrating conversation centering around the livability of Phoenix Arizona, me and some friends naturally wondered: "whose dumbass idea was it to build a city in the middle of the desert anyway?" https://awoo.space/media/r0HB29GsgiU2O3WV9Es https://awoo.space/media/1n82hUGbGTdx-KzebwM
@indi Oh wow.
@indi that name tho
CW: US History, the bad bits
I read more. It gets worse.
If anyone else thought that outfti looks a little... Confederate Uniform, then, well, good job. 😩
He wanted to name the city Stonewall. 😩 😩 😩
And finally, "in light of the rebirth of a town after the collapse of the Hohokam civilization, the name Phoenix predominated." 🤦
(Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Phoenix,_Arizona#The_founding_of_Phoenix)