Comment on "Thank you For Your Service"... During the Revolutionary War!

• wieson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Which wouldn’t be too bad.

  The citizens didn’t gain much through the conquest.

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  • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You think they didn’t? There would be no California (well, Alta California would be a thing, but mainly Hispanic), no Texas (the same), no Great Plains, no Oregon, no Louisiana (would be mainly franco-hispanic) and no Florida. I’d say it changes quite a lot of things

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    • wieson@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Yes, it would be different but not necessarily better. There is no moral value in the US owning that land. If it was owned by Spain, or maybe have many different independence movements and be owned by native peoples, would it be worse?

      The Great plains would also still exist (as would Louisiana and Florida)??? They don’t vanish if someone else governs them.

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      • Diprount_Tomato@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        No, don’t get me wrong, it would have been better for the world and the people who inhabited the land, just that not for Americans, which probably wouldn’t even have become as powerful as it is

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