Imagine being a rich archduke in charge of the Navy and having life on tutorial mode and then deciding that being a foreign ruler of a war torn shit hole would be a good idea. Then he gets executed 3 years later
>>18440169The lesson is to let brown people simmer in their manmade hell. It doesn't matter how smart, how strong, how just you are, they will drag you down. They deserve to rot and fester in their nations. The only thing they are good for are resources. That man has been dead for over a century and their country is even worse than before.>I forgive everyone, and I ask everyone to forgive me. May my blood, which is about to be shed, be for the good of the country. Long live Mexico, long live independence
>>18440169To be fair he tried adjusting to their culture and even learned Spanish to prepare himself for the throne. If he took charge during a more peaceful time in Mexico I could see them being more prosperous
>>18440169>then decidingHe was placed there on purpose with the full intent of having him catch all the flak from the inevitable uprising. It was plagued with instability all throughout.>>18440172Retarded /pol/tranny.
>>18440169WAR TORN, YES; SHITHOLE? NO.WHY WOULD ANYONE CHOOSE TO REMAIN A LOW LEVEL ARISTOCRAT IN SOME RECONDITE EUROPEAN BACKWATER OVER BEING THE EMPEROR OF MEXICO?
>>18440272Prieto acomplejado
>>18440277?
>>18440169>when you are both too liberal for the conservatives and too rule-of-law for the liberalsTRV CENTRISM HAS BEEN TRIED.
>>18440323VGH
>>18440172This. He unironically would have had more success if he just rounded up 100 or so local notables and had them publicly crucified in Mexico City's city square after his coronation ceremony 2bh.
>>18440172Browns supported him though, it was the whites who overthrew him.
>>18440406IT WAS A WAR OF REPUBLICANS AGAINST MONARCHISTS; DO NOT PROJECT YOUR ANGLO COLORIST IDEOLOGY.
>>18440169The funniest part is that the conservatives actually kind of disliked him because he was rather liberal minded for a 19th century monarch. And well the liberals all hated him because he was a foreign invading monarch, a few liberals actually reflected on how liberal he was and wished he was actually in control instead of being a figurehead for conservatives butthurt they lost a war. >>18440247It's impossible for that to happen. His accession to power is directly correlated to the Conservatived losing the reform war. It's like talking about a Juarez presidency without the Tacubaya plan.>>18440406Ngl there were members of all the races in both sides. It's a bit dumb to racialize the conflict.
>>18440641Nah the indios were clearly aligned with the conservatives because of religion and privileges, they always do. The majority of indians sided with the loyalists in the independence war and with the conservatives in the civil warL*ber*l Cr*ollos fucked up the country
>>18440641>>18440823To simplify things, the conservatives believed in preserving the Viceroyalty social and political order as much as possible, which included fueros for the military, the church and the indios, while the Liberals wanted to a create a modern nation-state, secularize the state, and assimilate the indios into mexicans, taking inspiration from the US
>>18440823There were Indians that sided with the Liberals (leaving aside the educated ones like Juarez), though obviously the very faithful or church-loyal ones went with Mejía and the conservatives. Illustrious governor of Tlaxcala Don Prosperó Cahuantzi for one.
>>18440829Tbh they were far more willing to compromise prior to the beginning of the reform war. Maybe the Church shouldn't have chimped out over not getting to use Canon Law in disputes with civilians.
>conservatives pretending to care about indians to sanitize their own history
>>18440925Well I mean these weren't today's U.Sian conservatives. They were proto-tradcath blowhards and crypto-monarchists. And in fairness, they did share sides with the indigenous at the time, by accident mostly.Of course it depends on the country. But generally. Of course like all things, it depends.
>>18440925I feel like many people see "conservative" and automatically assume they're the same as braindead retarded American conservatives
>>18440272oh man I thought you were the Teotihuacan shooter
>>18440169couldn’t what felt like ruling over a bunch of rebellious spics for a short time
