▲ 144 ▼ My life is like a video game~ (hexbear.net) submitted 2 years ago by Dirt_Owl@hexbear.net to c/the_dunk_tank@hexbear.net 62 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 18 points 2 years ago (1 child) They don’t need to have a navy. The strategy implies that the US would step in. So you know the rammification permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (3 children) Part of me has to wonder: what are the impacts on national self-identity of being utterly reliant on a third-party for defense against the historical opposing nation? It has to be one of those things nationalists shove under the rug, right? Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state. Or how Americans pretend the French didn’t win the bourgeois revolution for us. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state. Remember the Alamo, just not its context permalink fedilink source parent [–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) tbh, any national right wing capitalist states from the modern era are mostly propped up by imperial powers. The nationalistic narratives is mostly for local consumption and a way to discipline the population. Any actual nationalistic aspiration is viable if it is Left wing and anti-capitalist because its main goal is to break away from the imperial system. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state what are you talking about, they won the war & were independent the better part of a decade before joining the US. it was a lucky break that they captured Santa Anna and they probably would have lost without that, but they did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago Yeah I am really confused by this. Part of the fucked up nature of the Mexican-American war was that the US had agreed NOT to annex Texas. Direct fighting had ended but the Republic of Texas has to remain out of US hands. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] GinAndJuche@hexbear.net 22 points 2 years ago* (3 children) Part of me has to wonder: what are the impacts on national self-identity of being utterly reliant on a third-party for defense against the historical opposing nation? It has to be one of those things nationalists shove under the rug, right? Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state. Or how Americans pretend the French didn’t win the bourgeois revolution for us. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 6 child comments replies: [–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state. Remember the Alamo, just not its context permalink fedilink source parent [–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) tbh, any national right wing capitalist states from the modern era are mostly propped up by imperial powers. The nationalistic narratives is mostly for local consumption and a way to discipline the population. Any actual nationalistic aspiration is viable if it is Left wing and anti-capitalist because its main goal is to break away from the imperial system. permalink fedilink source parent [–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state what are you talking about, they won the war & were independent the better part of a decade before joining the US. it was a lucky break that they captured Santa Anna and they probably would have lost without that, but they did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago Yeah I am really confused by this. Part of the fucked up nature of the Mexican-American war was that the US had agreed NOT to annex Texas. Direct fighting had ended but the Republic of Texas has to remain out of US hands. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] ProfessorAdonisCnut@hexbear.net 14 points 2 years ago Like how Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state. Remember the Alamo, just not its context permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Fishroot@hexbear.net 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) tbh, any national right wing capitalist states from the modern era are mostly propped up by imperial powers. The nationalistic narratives is mostly for local consumption and a way to discipline the population. Any actual nationalistic aspiration is viable if it is Left wing and anti-capitalist because its main goal is to break away from the imperial system. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Dolores@hexbear.net 5 points 2 years ago (1 child) Texans ignore they lost the war with Mexico so hard they’d be part of Mexico again/still if they didn’t beg to become a state what are you talking about, they won the war & were independent the better part of a decade before joining the US. it was a lucky break that they captured Santa Anna and they probably would have lost without that, but they did. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago Yeah I am really confused by this. Part of the fucked up nature of the Mexican-American war was that the US had agreed NOT to annex Texas. Direct fighting had ended but the Republic of Texas has to remain out of US hands. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] Vncredleader@hexbear.net 4 points 2 years ago Yeah I am really confused by this. Part of the fucked up nature of the Mexican-American war was that the US had agreed NOT to annex Texas. Direct fighting had ended but the Republic of Texas has to remain out of US hands. permalink fedilink source parent
