Full translation is "500 years ago today a group of Spanish troops led by Hernan Cortes and native allies achieved the surrender of Tenochtitlan in Mexico. Spain successfully liberated millions of people from the terror of the bloody Aztec regime. We are proud of our history."
Wtf Vox.
Vox in spain is a francoist fascist party by the way
i wish for a Tito-like solution to all fascists :pit:
The Aztec ruling class were not good people and they killed their competitors with cruel efficiency, but they did nothing close to the genocidal, colonial violence that the Spaniards did, let alone the impacts of their rule since.
Yeah, if the nations that allied with Cortes, even the ones that got special privileges under the colonial government knew what was coming they would have merced him in his sleep.
Or they could've surrounded and killed them all like they totally could have like so many fucking times :angery:
These shitty second fiddle petty kingdoms that sided with conquistadors are the colonial equivalent of the social democrats :spain-cool:
In their defense, it must be hard to imagine what utter cruelty European colonialism is capable of if you've never seen it before.
Im aware, I'm reading 1491 right now so I'm just extra bitter. Nobody could have anticipated how badly disease would ravage their societies.
Yeah, the "bloody Aztec regime", famous for wiping out millions in the pursuit of gold. :spain-cool:
its very funny how the US has a vox news company that's just super lib but in spain they got vox the fascist political party / news outlet
I feel like this might be a good way to unwittingly redpill a whole bunch of Latino people into seeing the parallel between settler colonialism and western wars
Then again I'm not sure how Latinos generally feel about the Spanish colonization
Generally extremely negatively, from what I've heard, though they're not a monolithic bloc and some nations like the Tlaxcaltec did better under the early Spanish empire than they did under the Aztecs and remained loyal to Spain during the independence wars.
Ah yes, the famous spanish liberators. Who did such liberatory acts such as checks notes fed slaves to war-dogs for sport, enslaved entire islands working the people to death and installed genocidal governors to steal everything worth stealing from the land. Huh.
500 years of celebrating our murder and subjugation, and they won't even call us Mexica. The Spanish savages sacrificed us to their god: money.
