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The genocide of Tenochtitlan is actually one of the most horrifying things I have ever read (lemmy.ml)
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Cortes should have had is fucking heart ripped out for everyone to see. Even that would be too kind. The blunt edge of a macuahuitl to the back of the head would also do. It's genuinely unfathomable to me how someone can do what the Spanish did to the Mexica. It's unbelievable that I am seeing the very same tactics used in modern day Palestine. I'm disturbed by how similar they are. If I ever visit mexico city I'm pissing on his fucking grave. I'd actually give anything to have watched Cortes' slow death from suffocation.

There is no such thing as Palestinian war crimes. Everything is justifiable. They could live broadcast ritual human sacrifices and I would be completely unbothered. I want America to burn for what it has done.

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[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Graeber talks about it in Debt and it makes Cortes look like an even bigger loser. He and all the conquistadors were terrible with money and in debt to European banks. They were trying to strip the place of everything they could to stay afloat.

And then after the Black Death the aristocracy clamped down on the workers by only accepting silver as payment, the main resource coming from the Americas at the time, which was already accounted for by the people importing it and most of which was going over to pay off the Ottoman Empire anyway. So it was a double whammy of oppression

[–] sharkfucker420@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I feel like conquistadores should be understood within the social forces that incentivized conquest but I also want to hate Cortes. We can do a little bit of both me thinks.

[–] tombruzzo@hexbear.net 27 points 1 week ago

I'm just gonna hate all of them. No one had to go over there and do that

[–] woodenghost@hexbear.net 10 points 1 week ago

That's so valid!