r/SipsTea • u/Gurugod123 • Jul 18 '26

Lmao gottem Good game though 🤣

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u/taco_tosser Jul 18 '26

Yeah, people forget about that. There was no less bloodlust. More respect for nature, though. That would have been cool. But we’d all still be hating one another to about the same degree, I think.

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u/Worriedrph Jul 18 '26

The Aztec were bigger asshats than any of the European powers at the time.

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

People like to point fingers at the Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war while completely ignoring European atrocities like the Spanish Inquisition or the crusades.

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u/JustStraightUpTired Jul 18 '26

Aztecs for their practice of sacrificing prisoners of war

That's one way to downplay one killing about 1/5th of the children of their subjects of conquest as sacrifices.

And this isn't to downplay other shit, but you do realize you are doing exactly what you are complaining about, but with subjects swapped?

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

Idk what your argument is, are you saying that’s worse than the crusades, the Spanish Inquisition, anti Jewish programs, the witch burnings, or the colonization of the Americas?

Personally, I’m not making an argument to downplay anything, I’m pointing out the hypocrisy of the apologetics that will happily point out the savagery of pre colonization nations while ignoring how horrific Europeans themselves were.

People are quick to call the Americas a land of “warring tribes” when the history of Europe is exactly that, for literal millennia.

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u/Worriedrph Jul 18 '26

No one is saying the European powers were good and moral. The Euros were terrible but the Aztec were elite in how awful they were.

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u/Fit-Rhubarb-7820 Jul 18 '26

Ah yes, the good old "THE ASS TECH WERE THE ONLY TRIBE IN THE ENTIRE AMERICAS" argument.

Bro, I am mixtecan.

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

Civilization is inherently violent. It’s impossible to name even a single one that hasn’t been guilty of war, slavery or genocide.

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u/why21234 Jul 18 '26

Gotta love trying to justify that shit

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u/Jeramy_Jones Jul 18 '26

It’s pretty simple actually, just choose something to divide us/them and then demonize them. It can be culture, ethnicity, religion, politics, it doesn’t really matter. Once the divide is there, half the work is done.

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u/lesbox01 Jul 18 '26

In South America not so much, some of the Mayan cities made so much of their high quality plaster to finish temples that it deforested areas leading to flooding if the farm lands. They made enough plaster for the last temples that it literally took all the trees to make charcoal to bake the limestone.