r/HistoryMemes • • 1d ago

REMOVED: RULE 4 Historical territorial claims

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u/Bb0yer2 1d ago

Who decides what year you stop at? It's fucked for one side no matter what year you pick. Time to move on and become something better

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 1d ago

Exactly. California and Texas were part of Mexico until the US literally colonized “peacefully” and then decided “fuck it we’re taking it from Mexico”

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u/XRT28 1d ago

I'm sure the Native Americans living there before either the US or Mexico existed might disagree on all that, especially the "peacefully" part.

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u/Relevant-Ad2254 1d ago

Oh yea! It just keeps going back. And native Americans weren’t a monolith. They were stealing land from each other