!bookworms, first Blood Meridian thread!
Next week's thread will cover chapter's VI-XI.
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Maybe I'm a brainlet
but idk why the kid fought the dude from the bar. Seemed like an over react
Also:
Man:
How did you know he did it?
Judge:
I've never
seen that man in my life
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He doesn't speak any Spanish and felt threatened
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I thought it was because he sweeped up to get paid for a drink but the floor didn't need any cleaning so they weren't going to pay him. So the kid went full r-slur and threw a big temper tantrum.
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They mocked him too, “quiere trabajar”, considering the war against the US just ended the mexicans thought an american begging for work was quite amusing.
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There's so much r-slur
Chad energy 
in this book it's unreal
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Unfathomably based
tbh
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The captain was even more of a based r-slur, what was his stupid plan anyways? Lmao
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The best part about the captain is that his insane ambitions are based off the real filibusters
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So basically the american version of the Bandeirantes, but with none of the bandeirantes success
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Never heard of these
bandeirantes, how fascinating.
My 2 minute read of wikipedia seems to indicate that they were frontier people who had the brutality and vision to push the frontier. Kinda like coassaks in Russia .
I don't think the filibusters were anywhere near this badass. They were just southern gentlemen who thought (perhaps somewhat correctly) that they could easily occupy the capitals of these Latam countries and then live like kings
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One of the most interesting was the (temporarily) successful William Walker, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Walker_(filibuster), who came in as a mercenary to Nicaragua, then took over himself and re-instituted slavery until a coalition of all the surrounding countries forced him to flee. Had the South won the civil war odds are half the Caribbean would've been occupied by random slave owners instituting banana republics 60 years earlier
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The absolute state of Central-Americancels, total worthless banana republics ever since independence.
But I have to admit, that guy was a force of nature
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The were just called Paulistas back in the days. São Paulo is filled with statues and monuments of bandeirantes, the governor's residence and seat of state government is the “Palace of the Bandeirantes”, recently it has sparked controversy and our local leftoids want streets renamed and monuments removed because they were slavers.
They thought wrongly about successfully occupying any of those, however had they just migrated and bought some land they could easily had become part of the local aristocracy, there have been many latam presidents, legislators and military leaders whose parents were european or middle-eastern immigrants.
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This was the line that made me realize I was reading a truly great book.
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Judge is just an old western
dramatard 
cmv
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Literally
McCarthy role play
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