- and tell me that NO OTHER POWERFUL NATION would've invaded, gone to war with them, or otherwise taken hella aggressive steps.
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Does it sound like Confederate, a show set to focus characters "on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Demilitarised Zone", will encompass that?
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My money, right now, is firmly on NO, unless it's as a vague background gesturing without any real explanation. And that pisses me off.
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Because even when Americans tell stories abt the apparent destruction of the "real" US, they're still UScentric to the point of narcissism.
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What angers me about the conceit of Confederate isn't just the vile scope for misogyny & racism, or the distasteful political timing -
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- it's the failure to realise that the most interesting thing about a world without the modern US is what that means for everyone ELSE.
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Like, can you just for a moment imagine how vastly different the global landscape would be right now WITHOUT a century of US intervention?
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The knock-on effects are fucking STAGGERING. California went to the US after the Mexican-American War in 1848. If the South WON in 1865 -
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- do you honestly think for a hot minute that Mexico wouldn't have tried to take it BACK? And what about fucking TEXAS?
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Try to imagine Mexico sitting back, resigned, as the territory annexed from them becomes part of a new racist nation at war w. the north.
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The inherent fuckery of a Mason-Dixon Demilitarised Zone is that it forgets the new South would've been pincered between TWO angry enemies.
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But I'm struggling to imagine a version of Confederate where a strong Mexico is hailed as a global superpower after retaking its old lands.
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The wasted potential of an alt-history based on "what if the modern US didn't exist" while still focusing on the racist south is just... UM.
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