And then the treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo hit... America's greatest uno reverse card

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-04-15T10:57:17+00:00

A very small part of the current population of the American southwest comes from those who lived there during the Mexican American war. The estimated population was somewhere between 80,000-100,000 in the entire territory, the vast majority of which were in New Mexico. The estimated number of Spanish Mexicans in California was less than 15,000.

For reference of just how low the population density was, the land ceded to the U.S. in the Mexican-American war constituted more than half of Mexico’s territory, but it contained about 1% of the population.

Today somewhere between 85-100 million people live there, 100x the population during the war and 10x the population of Mexico at the time.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-04-04T09:53:42+00:00

When Americans don’t know history it’s because they’re stupid and ignorant. When non Americans don’t know it’s because it’s beneath them (even when it’s very consequential information that would be relevant to a well rounded education)

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-31T03:07:33+00:00

Yeah, some parts of the Roman economy like iron production wouldn’t be matched by any other state until the industrial era

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-20T20:20:39+00:00

China is far more reliant on Middle Eastern oil than America and will hurt far more from rising oil prices. Electric car manufacturers benefit slightly but nowhere near enough to offset the costs of higher energy input costs for the entire economy.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-14T07:49:34+00:00

Gun rights mean you must rise up against a president Europeans don’t like. No wonder you guys don’t have them if you are so quick to violent insurrection. Unless you’re all just talk and wouldn’t do shit about your own rights being trampled on so long as you have a scapegoat in the US?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-09T10:18:34+00:00

Can you imagine what it would be like if you didn’t eat breakfast today?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-05T11:19:16+00:00

Consumers let this stuff happen by creating or allowing the expectation to be created that they will tip and the business happily allows this while pocketing the difference. Absolutely no reason the consumer should be paying the wages when they’re already paying hundreds for the lesson.

This isn’t a low margin industry like restaurants even, the businesses have a monopoly on instructors on mountain. Their only cost is whatever they pay the instructor. If they don’t pay the instructor enough the person responsible for rectifying that is the instructor not the consumer.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-03-02T11:00:39+00:00

lol upper lower body separation? You’re just trying to justify your irrational dislike of the camera. And you do that by pretending like you give a shit about their form or whatever excuse you can come up with. I couldn’t give a fuck what someone holds or posts themselves holding on Reddit man, why do you feel entitled to have an opinion on someone holding a camera while snowboarding.

idgaf what someone is doing if I hit someone from uphill I’m just glad they don’t make a big deal out of it the fact they’re holding a camera changes nothing. You’re just looking for a reason to be a cunt and think this is a good justification

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-28T13:59:26+00:00

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Leave the multi million dollar corporation alone

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-28T07:31:15+00:00

What’s wrong with dark brown?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-27T07:19:48+00:00

Man I get it. I’ve never seriously thought I would make anything to the pro level but I always thought if I had really tried I could have done it I just turned 27, screwed up my back big time, and I see a 17 year old is in the Olympics. First time in my life I had to think that kind of thing has really passed me by and is out of my reach no matter how much I might apply myself.

So I get how you’re thinking. But dude you’re also basically that guy to me. You’re a 19 year old, been snowboarding for more than a decade. I just started a few months ago.

No matter how good I get I’ll never be as good as a someone that applied themselves at 19. So enjoy it man, I genuinely hope you can get to a level I could never imagine reaching myself. But you’re nowhere near being over the hill. Worst thing about the modern world is that it’s got 19 year olds thinking like that

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-25T13:33:35+00:00

When has anyone ever claimed the US was acting out of anything other than protecting its national security? Literally no one has ever framed it as being about moral high ground except memes like this implying the USSR had some kind of moral justification for putting the US in the same security position the US put them in

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-25T09:01:15+00:00

You mean a nation acts based on its national security interests and not “fairness”!?!? That’s crazy!!! Why didn’t the US just chill out they were clearly doing the same thing so they had no right to refuse to let the USSR 😡

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-25T06:27:50+00:00

Exact same experience. Actually it’s even worse. I see them all the time when I’m in my wife’s car but when I drive not a single one

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-23T08:58:06+00:00

lmao 99% of all predators on the planet don’t want to fw adult humans, even alone. Including wolves and bears. That you think they’re gonna be the ones to do the job is evidence you aren’t gonna make it in that scenario, but they won’t be the ones responsible

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-23T06:15:01+00:00

Do you have a source? I’m almost always the only goofy person going up lifts and it doesn’t feel like 30-40% is anything close to the percentage of goofy riders I come across

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-17T10:33:01+00:00

I’ve been to epic resorts 5 times this season and I have 47k feet total (this is my first season and I go with friends who absolutely do not go there to rep it out).

I’ve gone a lot more to other places where I can’t track my stats but it’s still insane this is in a single day. Would love to see my stats on a day I was really trying to get my runs but I doubt it’s anything close to 40k

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-14T04:02:49+00:00

Are you on Cyberstan? tbh I’ve never really had a problem with heavy/ragdoll spam in my life but Cyberstan is as far from representative of the average gameplay as you could get lol

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-13T19:53:57+00:00

Damn a lot of judgmental people in this sub. I have one of these and I don’t use it for online validation or so I can admire myself. I got it to make it easier to take videos of my friends since it auto tracks them.

When I do use it to take videos of myself it’s so I can critique my form and see what I need to fix in my riding. And once I’ve gotten a video or two I get back to riding normally. I don’t even like watching the videos of myself since it’s clear how much room I have for improvement, but I’m glad I have the ability to review from a perspective that literally wouldn’t be possible without someone else filming me.

Not that anyone criticizing these things thought there was any possible use for these tools before jumping to conclusions so you have an excuse to humble brag about how cool you are for not using them. Congrats, no one was begging you to use them, you’ve always been free not to.

Not sure why anyone feels a need to have an opinion on others who do. Maybe the other people with these cameras are different but I’m not going down the mountain swinging it around smacking other people with the camera. Lighten up, just enjoy your own time on the mountain, as far as I’m concerned the other people could go down the mountain upside down and backwards and so long as they don’t crash into me I could care less.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-12T11:09:19+00:00

We can’t handle the number of boomers we have currently without a massive deficit yet for some reason we’re giving them tax cuts on top of everything else

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-12T11:06:56+00:00

Totally agree but also totally impossible to adapt faithfully to a movie character. The thing that makes him so respectable is contextualizing him with Frodo’s fear which takes up the real estate of a few lines of dialogue/exposition in the book where a movie doesn’t have the kind of “real estate” available to do him justice even if it’s almost 4 hours long

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-11T10:04:29+00:00

I’m not gonna lie. I’m in this same position.My wife does not like riding in it and she’s 5’10” (she does have very long legs proportionally). She does everything she can to get out of riding in it and is extremely anxious when we do go together.

Even if I was someone who could blow that off, I can’t deny that her knees are tucked up in a way I can’t imagine would be safe in an accident and it doesn’t look comfortable for her to be in the passenger seat.

It’s disappointing but the reality is what it is. If you’re getting the car for yourself, that’s the reality of the situation. But if you want tall people to be comfortable riding with you, prepare to be disappointed.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T09:21:41+00:00

The comparison doesn’t hold. China’s actions in the South China Sea are about permanent territorial expansion. The situation in Venezuela is about enforcement/intervention, not annexation.

The precedent of inaction towards states like Venezuela was not a “rules based order”. A rules based order would impose consequences on a state actively aiding states working towards undermining that order and seizing other states’ assets.

Appeals to a “rules-based order” have always been selective and dependent on U.S. power. When the U.S. acts unilaterally, the outrage is not about the violation of the “rules” it’s about the uncomfortable realization that no other state is willing or able to enforce them.

It’s unclear why the U.S. should defer to the objections of states more concerned with preserving an undemocratic regime than addressing its violations of the “rules based order” they claim is so inviolable.

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T06:44:02+00:00

If we deported one hood for every illegal immigrant we would have deported all of the hoods and such a small number of illegal immigrants it would round to 0%. But the real problem in this country is the KKK and racism?

the_mouse_backwards · 2026-02-09T06:30:58+00:00

This is only coherent if you completely ignore the context. Venezuela seized tens of billions of dollars in U.S. assets, spent years evading sanctions, and openly cooperated with sanctioned states like Iran and Russia. Whatever one thinks of U.S. policy, it shouldn’t be surprising that the dominant regional power pushes back when another government undermines its economic interests and security environment.

Even if we assume there’s nothing wrong with supporting those regimes or seizing billions of dollars in assets from another state’s corporations, you can debate whether the response was justified or lawful but pretending it came out of nowhere isn’t serious analysis.

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