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"Spanfeller is a twat" (theaspiringengineer) 01/20/2019 at 16:20 • Filed to: None

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Personal stuff ahead.

Mexican Impotency.

What happened in Hidalgo on the 18th of January rocked me to my core. Eighty people are reportedly dead as of writing and more than seventy are hospitalized with serious injuries, many will probably die in the next week. Many of them were children.

Eighty deaths is not a big number in Mexico, it’s actually a small amount. But what rocked me to the core was the utter failure of every single health and safety instrument available. The malice with which these people stole the fuel, the absolute ignorance, agression, and selfishness they showed as they literally bathed in gasoline as it gushed out of the pipe.

Little did they know that it would be the last day of their lives.

I guess that it’s part of living in this country, and I feel so impotent about it. I feel like no matter what I do, say, or write nothing will change. I am not a likeable man, I am not a politician or a successful businessman; I cannot effect the change I wished that would occur here with the tools I have.

My family, my friends, pretty much everyone I know... We belong to the complacent class. The 14% that can worry-not. The 14% that can buy a car when the metro doesn’t work, or that can go to a private hospital when the public one is overcrowded, or that can pay for private schooling when public schooling renders us incompetent.

People that can ignore tragedies like this. I remember back in 2015 when the masacre in Iguala, Guerrero occured. My father told me “There should be a fucking civil war over this” as he calmly drove down Reforma Avenue, on his new Jeep.

But there was no civil war. There was no revolution, nothing changed. Violence is widespread, death is a constant, and misery is a given. But not for us. We live calmly, and with certainty that nothing can go wrong. There’s so much inequality in so many aspects to the point that quality of life can rival Finland in some neighborhoods, while in others it might rival D.R. Congo.

But I don’t think I can subscribe to my family’s model of “even if they suck, we can pay someone who doesn’t to do their job.” I don’t like living in a country that I know that doesn’t work as it should. I just can’t help it.

So I don’t know. Perhaps I don’t want to live here anymore. But I don’t know where I’d go. My family loves this country, and I do feel like I owe something to the people of Mexico. The people that fed me, that paved the roads I drove on, that made the electrcity I used to write this.

It is, after all, a society. What little I have given back in taxes and labor perhaps is relevant, but maybe not enough to upset the sacrifices that were made for me by everyone here.

If perhaps opportunistic, I’d probably move to Spain, or Canada, once I finish college. But for that, some time still has to go by, and in the meantime I hope that something finally changes. I don’t like the people in power but I share an opinion with them that it’s been enough: We’re all tired of the croney state.

I just really hope that it’s not just another façade. I want this to work out because I would love living here if it wasn’t so messed up, and if I left I’d feel like I betrayed so many things about myself. It’s worth saving, but I don’t know how.

Honeybunchesofgoats > Spanfeller is a twat 01/20/2019 at 16:39

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From what little I know about the whole thing (basically just an article in the New York Times), the whole thing just seems tragically messy, with people blaming just about everyone for what happened—Obrador for cracking down on theft, gangs for increasing fuel theft, the military for not doing more to stop locals from collecting fuel, locals for not listening to the military.

Spanfeller is a twat > Honeybunchesofgoats 01/20/2019 at 16:44

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It was everyone’s fault. As most tragedies are here.

Cé hé sin > Spanfeller is a twat 01/20/2019 at 16:48

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Did you ever think it was a pity that the US stopped at New Mexico and neighbouring states in th e 19th century and didn’t just seize the whole of Mexico while they were at it? You’d all be surely better off. Admittedly you’d have T he Orange One as president, but he’s temporary.

Spanfeller is a twat > Cé hé sin 01/20/2019 at 16:52

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I don’t know, US immigration policy didn’t favor immigrants like my grandparents at the time... and the reason I exist is because they met here....

Cé hé sin > Spanfeller is a twat 01/20/2019 at 16:55

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There’s that I suppose...

Spanfeller is a twat > Cé hé sin 01/20/2019 at 17:23

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Lets theorize, if the US had conquered Mexico during the Mexican American war....

OOF, such a mess. slavery would’ve been legalized again, which would’ve angered us, but we would’ve been very clear supporters of the Yankees during the civil war. Meaning it would’ve been shorter and probably focused further south.

Then there’s the issue of Mexico’s demographics, I’m not sure how we would’ve reacted to the first or second world war. If the US actually extended to Mexico and invested as much as they did up in the western states, Who knows what would’ve happened.

The US would've been a lot more powerful... I dare say that at the moment our economies would've been two or three times larger.

gmporschenut also a fan of hondas > Cé hé sin 01/20/2019 at 18:16

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From a military standpoint the US was able to capture Mexico City and mostly crush the Mexican Army that mobilized . The main prize was   California, with the rest empty des ert* that was barely under control of Mexico . They wanted territory and not people. People are expensive to administer. Given the shock taking the P hillipines, Puerto Rico and Hawaii “oh shit we now have a colonial empire” at a time when slavery was still around, I think 20th century could have turned out very crazy .