Ancestors

Toot

Written by Christian Schwägerl on 2025-01-20 at 18:57

One of many horrible details of Trump’s inauguration speech: He invoked #ManifestDestiny, a 19th century doctrine of US exceptionalism that was used to justify the genocide of native Americans and also wars, for example against Mexico.

Painting: American Progress by John Gast, 1872

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manifest_destiny #Trump #inauguration

=> View attached media

=> More informations about this toot | More toots from christianschwaegerl@mastodon.social

Descendants

Proxy Information

Original URL: gemini://mastogem.picasoft.net/thread/113862209839264182
Status Code: Success (20)
Meta: text/gemini
Capsule Response Time: 239.795508 milliseconds
Gemini-to-HTML Time: 0.64907 milliseconds

This content has been proxied by September (3851b).