I am begging you all to STOP flying crusader flags at Aztec solidarity protests
this post was submitted on 15 Jan 2026
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The pope says that the protesters are shouting "deus vult" signifying their desire for the church to act as a unifying force in their country
Read the title and thought "Wait, is this an indigenous independence movement in Mexico I haven't heard about?"
Obviously I don't think we should support Cortez, but two things can be true at once. The Aztecs are objectively a brutal empire that's worse than anything the Spanish have ever done.
This is literally how the more subtle colonialist whitewashing propaganda works in Spain, unironically
The good Christian Spanish would never slaughter their own people! Good heavens.
Their profane and barbaric cannibalism vs our holy receiving of the Eucharist with the real presence of our Lord Jesus Christ within the bread and wine
what i really cant forgive the aztec regime for is killing their own people.
Smallpox is good for you actually
Strengthens the biles if you're righteous enough
I feel like this doesn't make the point you want it to. The Aztec empire fell because the Mexica weren't exactly awesome neighbors and the arrival of Cortes served as a catalyst for the Tlaxcaltecs and the Mexica's tributaries to break free. Not that the subsequent Spanish rule was an improvement, but without the indigenous struggle against Aztec rule, Cortes and his little gang would've been slaughtered, guns or not.
Cortés seized an opportunity that was already brewing. However I don't think the empire would have fallen completely if it had just been the Aztec people fighting against Cuauhtémoc.
My post was made based on a lib comment saying that "things can't get worse than a theocracy" and the comparison between the Aztec Empire and Iran I genuinely think that the most propagandised people can really see both as equally bloody, so yeah things can get much worse when people involved don't see foreigners as people.
wish i could chime in on the shitpost but my brain shredded everything i learned about cortez and the aztecs
True we should all aspire to be like the civilized Westerners. There's no need for pointless cruelty and suffering, we have to be civil about it, instead of murdering people you could instead sterilize and, if you have to kill some, be painless and quick. See this is how civilized people behave. /s
if you have to kill some, be painless and quick.
Unless it's a Witch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
And if anybody opposes your regime, just shoot them.
In the leg! We're not barbarians 
Can people pls use /j or /s
Fuck I gave ammunition to MoG
Aztecs are just "hilarious" from begin to finish...
Do you know how they got into having to settle on an island in the middle of a lake in the first place ? You will never guess it , its not something that can be guessed.
(CW: Aztec History)
spoiler
First they had better lands granted to them , and so they wanted to honor the lokal King for it , so they asked him for his daughter.
So he gave them their Daughter and they killed her , skinned her, and wore her around as a sort of cape at a Bakquet with him.
So they had to move again...
btw do we have enough Childrean and Captives to drown for the water dieties ?
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