The Aztecs were indigenous. Mugabe was indigenous. Venezuela is indigenous. Keep pretending the word “indigenous” comes with a built-in moral upgrade. A driver they called The Professor once told the author that all the stories about Aztec atrocities were lies. Just lies. The culture was in their blood. Kids dressed up like little warriors on holidays. He was proud. The skulls at Templo Mayor disagree. The Aztecs didn’t just fight wars. They marched prisoners up the pyramids, held them down, and cut their still-beating hearts out so the sun would keep moving. The bloodier it looked, the better. That wasn’t some fringe ritual. It was how the empire stayed running, right next to constant conquest and tribute extraction. Plenty of other indigenous groups hated them so much they sided with the Spaniards when the chance came. Fast forward a few centuries and the same logic gets applied to modern governments. If the rulers share blood with the ruled, suddenly we’re supposed to treat the outcome as morally superior by default. Mugabe was indigenous. He inherited a working country and turned it into hyperinflation and empty fields. Venezuela is indigenous. The results speak for themselves. Hong Kong was one of the freest places in Asia until the indigenous government decided dissent was a crime and independent newspapers were a threat. But don’t worry ... it was indigenous, so it must be better than whatever came before. This is the game now. Show up first, claim the bloodline, wave the sacred story, and you get a permanent moral pass no matter how many bodies or ruined economies you leave behind. History doesn’t care about your arrival date or your ancestry. It only cares whether you built something decent or just another version of the same old cruelty with better public relations. The rest is theater for people who’d rather feel righteous than look at results. (article below)

Black people did not create peanut butter...peanut paste goes back to even the Aztecs but its a Canadian dude who patented the first peanut butter and a white guy who created the first machine to make it.

damn and i thought @WR3CK1NGB4LLSBR's executions were gruesome Aztecs got you beat, Mr, Waffle hair

The Mexican code of arms harkens back to when the aztecs found the land they would call home.

The indigenous people were not all part of the Aztec Empire, and some of them were conquered by the aztecs. those people were never part of Mexico, willingly that were inside of Texas, Arizona, California and so forth. If you study the history of it , those people were unwillingly made part of mexico.

San Diego High's Kye Cooper eager to represent hometown with Aztecs @KyeKingCooper4 interview via @_RomanAguilar_ #GoAztecs eastvillagetimes.com/vtrv

Come lay down on this slab and let the Aztecs tell you a story

Archaeologists found racks of human skulls at Templo Mayor. The Aztecs marched war prisoners to the top of the pyramids, cut their hearts out while they were still alive, and rolled the bodies down the steps. That wasn’t rare. It was standard operating procedure for the empire, alongside constant military conquest and forced tribute from subject peoples. Many of those subject peoples were also indigenous. They hated Aztec rule enough that they actively helped the Spaniards when the opportunity appeared. Centuries later we’re told that indigeneity itself carries moral weight. That being native, or claiming to speak for those who were here first, should give a government a kind of automatic legitimacy that others don’t get. Look at the actual record instead. Robert Mugabe was handed a functioning country and turned it into hyperinflation, mass starvation, and political terror. He was indigenous. Idi Amin’s regime was defined by brutality and expulsion. He was indigenous. After Beijing imposed the National Security Law in 2020, independent newspapers in Hong Kong were shut down, activists jailed, and elections restructured. That government was indigenous. Venezuela’s collapse happened under an indigenous government by the same standard. Singapore took the legal system, port, and commercial institutions left by the British and built one of the wealthiest and safest societies in the world. They didn’t burn the foundations down. They used them. So here’s the question that never seems to get asked: If indigeneity and historical priority are supposed to be the real measures of legitimacy, why do the outcomes vary so wildly depending on what the actual rulers chose to do with power? Why do some indigenous governments produce order, prosperity, and functioning institutions while others produce the opposite ... and why are we told we’re not allowed to notice the difference? (article below)

I stand on the hill that the conquest of the Aztecs was justified simply based of their carnal ritualistic warfare, had the Spanish failed they were advanced enough to bounce back from disease and start RABIDLY conquering the Central America.

Frenkie Californian Aztecs

Tlaxcalan: "Tenochtitlan destroyed a vibrant and evolving civilization and replaced it with skull racks. I do not like Aztecs"

All cultures, regardless of race have conquered other cultures. The Chinese, the Japanese, Aztecs, europeans, Africans The one culture that conquered more than any other were the native Americans tribes. They were at constant war with each other. Cherokee, Apache, all at war

Honestly wouldn’t mind Aztecs but who knows how the next 3 years plays out

Shut ur trap. U forget about ur brown skin brother conquistadors? They wiped out half of American Indians and wiped out the Aztecs..literally wiped them out.

Me: Our devices screen are similar to black mirrors. Black mirrors are also scrying mirrors. Scry is linked to Screen Ai: That’s an intriguing observation—device screens (especially when off or in dark mode) do function like modern black mirrors, and the parallel to scrying is conceptually rich, even if the words aren’t etymologically linked. etymonline. com Black Mirrors in Scrying Scrying (or “seeing”) is an ancient divination practice where you gaze into a reflective or translucent medium—crystal balls, water, smoke, or polished surfaces—to induce visions, gain insights, or contact other realms. A black mirror (often obsidian, or glass painted black on one side) is a classic tool because its dark, slightly reflective surface creates a “void” that relaxes the eyes and engages the subconscious or intuitive mind. en.wikipedia. org • Historical roots trace back to cultures like the Aztecs (who used obsidian “smoking mirrors” linked to Tezcatlipoca) and European occult traditions. collegeofpsychicstudies. co. uk • Practitioners stare softly (not hard-focused) in low light, often entering a trance state, until images, symbols, or scenes emerge—sometimes described like “TV static” or ghostly projections. Modern occult communities explicitly note that turned-off TVs, computer monitors, or phone screens make excellent improvised black mirrors for the same reason: uniform darkness subtle reflectivity. forum.becomealivinggod. com Screens as “Black Mirrors” Your point lands well here. When powered off, most screens are glossy black rectangles that mirror your face and room faintly—just like traditional scrying tools. When on, they pour forth endless images, “visions,” and alternate realities that captivate attention in a trance-like way. Some esoteric thinkers draw direct parallels: • Screens act as portals to other worlds (social media feeds, videos, virtual spaces). • They induce altered states of consciousness through flickering light, dopamine loops, and constant input—similar to how scrying bypasses normal perception. academia. edu This idea shows up in online discussions tying modern tech to older magic: “black screens” as spirit realms or tools for revelation. reddit. com The “Scry” ↔ “Screen” Link This is more folk/phonetic association than strict linguistics. • Scry comes from Middle English, a shortening of descry (“to discern, see, or reveal”), ultimately from Old French/Latin roots related to “describing” or proclaiming something hidden. It’s about perceiving visions. etymonline. com • Screen has Germanic roots (via Old French escran), originally meaning a protective barrier, shield, or partition (like a fire screen). Later it evolved to mean surfaces for projecting images (e.g., magic lanterns, movies). etymonline. com No shared root—it’s a cool coincidence in sound and function. The idea that “scry became screen” pops up in some occult or meme-style posts as a symbolic truth rather than dictionary fact. It fits a broader theme: technology as sorcery (John Dee’s scrying tools influencing early science/computation vibes, or cinema as mass scrying).

Big night for the offense! Accounted for 2 touchdown passes and kept competing every snap. Thankful for my teammates and coaches. More work to do and more goals to reach! 🏈🔥 #SDSUFootball #Aztecs #Recruiting #Playmaker

Did you know - Oxford University is older than the Aztecs. The teaching of classes at Oxford University began as early as 1096. By comparison, the Aztec city of Tenochtitlán (modern-day Mexico City) was not founded until 1325.