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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And I just... I cannot honestly imagine a team of US TV writers telling this kind of story w/out trying to bang the American Patriot Drum.
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Generally speaking, American TV doesn't tell stories about the US being broken unless it's to argue that THE US SPIRIT TRANSCENDS ALL THINGS
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And that just CANNOT WORK HERE. Because in this scenario, all the nations you smashed to build that US spirit are BIGGER & BETTER THAN YOU.
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But that's the one story US TV won't tell: one where America isn't just broken, but SMALL. One where it DOESN'T still Matter The Most.
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