The issue here is not “does Mexico treat its indigenous population better than the United States?” (it does, Mexico is not doing good but they are better than the United States by a wide margin). The issue here is that the United States illegally stole land that rightfully belonged to Mexico and that in turn has caused irreparable harm to the Mexican nation and its people.
All of Turtle Island is stolen land, and while the United States and Mexico are colonial empires which naturally means they are aggressors and bad, the US did something unforgivable to Mexico, they broke the rules that colonial empires were supposed to abide by and stole the land that Mexico had legally settled and occupied for centuries. They deported Mexicans out of their own land, they invaded the Mexican capital, and they turned Mexico into a US puppet state.
The United States has done a national humiliation to Mexico, imagine how much more advanced Mexico would be if they held on to that territory. California alone would have made Mexico the dominant power on the continent, the factors that made Silicon Valley a thing probably would have still occurred and that would have made Mexico a technological power house. And I haven’t even talked about the possibility of Mexico just balkanizing and the US just not interfering, who’s to say that wouldn’t have resulted in the best possible outcome for the creation of communism?
As for Hoover dam. It’s way too big, it was designed for rainfall that will never exist again. So this dam basically acts as a giant barrier that prevents fish from reaching the ocean and wrecked havoc on the environment. I’m not saying dams are all bad but they have downsides and in an ideal world most fresh water would come from renewable sources powered by renewable energy and dams wouldn’t be included in that, hell even nuclear probably wouldn’t be included in that. But for the next 100 years we kind of need dams. But if we had to tear one down, Hoover dam is a great candidate.
The issue here is not “does Mexico treat its indigenous population better than the United States?” (it does, Mexico is not doing good but they are better than the United States by a wide margin). The issue here is that the United States illegally stole land that rightfully belonged to Mexico and that in turn has caused irreparable harm to the Mexican nation and its people.
All of Turtle Island is stolen land, and while the United States and Mexico are colonial empires which naturally means they are aggressors and bad, the US did something unforgivable to Mexico, they broke the rules that colonial empires were supposed to abide by and stole the land that Mexico had legally settled and occupied for centuries. They deported Mexicans out of their own land, they invaded the Mexican capital, and they turned Mexico into a US puppet state.
The United States has done a national humiliation to Mexico, imagine how much more advanced Mexico would be if they held on to that territory. California alone would have made Mexico the dominant power on the continent, the factors that made Silicon Valley a thing probably would have still occurred and that would have made Mexico a technological power house. And I haven’t even talked about the possibility of Mexico just balkanizing and the US just not interfering, who’s to say that wouldn’t have resulted in the best possible outcome for the creation of communism?
As for Hoover dam. It’s way too big, it was designed for rainfall that will never exist again. So this dam basically acts as a giant barrier that prevents fish from reaching the ocean and wrecked havoc on the environment. I’m not saying dams are all bad but they have downsides and in an ideal world most fresh water would come from renewable sources powered by renewable energy and dams wouldn’t be included in that, hell even nuclear probably wouldn’t be included in that. But for the next 100 years we kind of need dams. But if we had to tear one down, Hoover dam is a great candidate.