Matt Godden<p>The funniest thing about the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USPol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USPol</span></a> fairytale of the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AmericanRevolution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanRevolution</span></a> being about overthrowing Despotic King George, and how that intersects with <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ManifestDestiny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ManifestDestiny</span></a>, and the undercurrent of American <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> and being a "white nation"... is that Britain's plans for <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/America" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>America</span></a> were that it was to be a *Native American* nation, with a tiny British administrative garrison, who would play off the internal power dynamics between rival Native power groups to get results... the same as they did in India.</p>
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National Park Origins—Part 2:
National Parks in the U.S. originated in the context of Manifest Destiny. They became symbols of national progress, reinforced by art depicting western expansion, but their history is also marked by conquest and exclusion of Native Americans, displacing them from #sacred lands.
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Sacred Wonderland · National Park Origins—Part 2: Shrines to a Manifested DestinyNational parks in the U.S. are often seen as places of natural beauty, but their origins are tied to Manifest Destiny—the belief that Americans were destined to settle and civilize the continent. National parks became symbols of national progress, reinforced by art depicting western expansion. While they offer refuge and inspiration, their history is also marked by conquest and exclusion of Native Americans, displacing them from sacred lands.
New Episode!
The Lone Star and the Borderlands
We explore how Texas broke away from Mexico, the war that followed, and how it all led to gold rushes, boomtowns, and the birth of California.
From the Alamo to San Francisco—this episode has it all.
Listen here: https://url.thaliyal.com/IkA1iH
SpotifyE21. US History – Understanding This Country | The Lone Star and the BorderlandsIrregular Mind · Episode
**The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**
“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”
https://uncpress.org/book/9781469685052/the-age-of-the-borderlands/.
#Nonfiction #History #ManifestDestiny #USA #UnitedStates #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
University of North Carolina PressThe Age of the Borderlands | Andrew C. Isenberg | University of North Carolina PressIn The Age of the Borderlands, acclaimed historian Andrew C. Isenberg offers a new history of manifest destiny that breaks from triumphalist narratives of US...
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#trump believes in #manifestdestiny the delusion that you can fund the Federal Gov through #tariffs and hanging your political opponents, it really isn’t much more complicated than that. He’s a throwback to early 19th C America, including all the social attitudes.
Want to understand #Trumpism? Read a good biography of #andrewjackson something like Meacham’s American Lion.
oh man .. 
This isn't the same thing as sailing over an ocean, killing everyone you meet there & declaring yourself the master race.
This is a death trip. Into a toxic desert. And lethal radiation.
#ManifestDestiny 
.. what a bunch of #idiots
https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2025/03/27/can-musk-put-people-on-mars
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The Economist · Can Musk put people on Mars?
**Manifest Destiny**
As a teenager many decades ago I studied 19th century American history at school. My teacher was careful to instil in his students an appreciation of how important the cultural belief of 'manifest destiny' was to American expansion westwards during that century. Little did I know at the time that decades later in 2025 a new wave of American expansion, however this time northwards, would try to envelop Canada and Greenland in a new 'manifest destiny'.
#ManifestDestiny #Canada #Greenland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America
#Image attribution: John Gast, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page:URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:American_Progress_(John_Gast_painting).jpg
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European fascism was and has always been a response to the siren call of USA plantation #slaveocracy, #ManifestDestiny and post-Civil War #JimCrow. if capitalists have to pick between enriching themselves thru slavery or the labor of free citizens, they will go with slavery.
Karl Marx told us as much back in 1861:
https://libcom.org/library/american-civil-war-karl-marx
do you get why #BlackLivesMatter is the most #antifa shit you can say in USA?
#MAGA is the negrofication of the white middle classes.
deal with it.
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this does not apply to all “protestant” churches. we’re here talking about the very specific flavor or USAmerican Evangelical churches; the majority of which happen to be led by those of the “unhued” kind.
and that means many USA Evangelicals have categorically rejected all forms of Ecumenicalism from the Roman Catholic Church, they regard as an affront on their myths of #ManifestDestiny.
first: how dare the RCC say Xllxh and Gxd are one and the same?
this, this is the big one…
Trump) The Imperialist America has returned.
What's the next move after the Panama Canal and Greenland? Canada might be too much to swallow in one bite. Perhaps Nova Scotia would be a nice Amuse-bouche.
#Imperialism #Expansionism #ManifestDestiny #WhiteIsRight #OurFascistPresident
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