r/nextfuckinglevel 3d ago

Mexican 'cowboy' stopped armed robbery

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u/Justeff83 3d ago

A Mexican cowboy is called vaquero or charro and they are the original cowboys. The American settlers learned how to herd cattle from Mexican immigrants

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u/[deleted] 3d ago

Yup

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u/absat41 3d ago

Don’t tell that Texans ; they get mighty upset. 

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u/AmpleWarning 3d ago

They can get as upset as they want. Doesn't make it any less true.

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u/turtlelore2 3d ago

But if they believe hard enough, anything can become true

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u/Vifor 3d ago

Texans are WH40K orks?

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u/Jeewdew 3d ago

Sometimes the outside world sees them as such. 😂

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u/localtuned 3d ago

Never notice the knives before.

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u/Wiskersthefif 3d ago

Nope, those are Floridians.

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u/Sensitive_Mousse_445 2d ago

Some of them look like WH40K orks lol

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u/Sweaty-Sir8960 3d ago

Have you ever seen a purple Texan?

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u/Character_Lab_8817 3d ago

‘Umiez teechin’ ‘Umiez ta ‘erd

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u/Sunaruni 2d ago

A lot of them are zombie worshippers.

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u/El_Che1 3d ago

It’s a new era of truth. Truth is whatever MAGA wants it to be according to Musk/Trump.

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u/LES_G_BRANDON 3d ago

I think you have it backwards!

The media and government have been lying to the people. These same people are waking up and electing people who are going to be more transparent.

That's the idea, anyway! We'll see how it goes.

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u/Same-Brilliant2014 3d ago

hmmm, i wonder what 2 billionaires own they're own social platforms and have a whole news network that got sued for lying and is just propaganda?

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u/LES_G_BRANDON 3d ago

Keep drinking that cool-aid!

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u/Same-Brilliant2014 3d ago

what kool aid? nothing i said was inaccurate. a network who solely says one thing got sued for lying and lost and 2 billionaries own social media platforms lol but i get it youre in too deep its coo .

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u/Mac_Elliot 3d ago

Do you think vaqueros in the US voted for Kamala? Lmao. MAGA people are normal people its not a bunch of redneck racists. Hence why Trump won.

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u/Murky-Peanut1390 2d ago

8 low testosterone betas downvoted you

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u/mclovin_r 3d ago

The fact that you're getting downvoted shows how upset they are at the truth. Which is hilariously ironic because the commenter above is talking about the "new era of truth"

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u/0khrana 3d ago

Have you ever seen a purple Texan?

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u/pimppapy 3d ago

At a Trump rally, yeah! From shouting MAGA all the time.

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u/wanderButNotLost2 3d ago

But in their Texan history books the cowboy wasn't invented until Walker Texas Ranger aired on TV in 1809. It's an undisputed fact.

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u/HOrnery_Occasion 3d ago

You obviously don't live in Texas but if you knew anything rodeo you'd know that world class riders and bull riders are Brazilian, Mexican, etc. Most of Texas that you would "classify" as cowboys know exactly how it came to be.

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u/thehelldoesthatmean 2d ago

You got whooshed, my friend

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u/HOrnery_Occasion 2d ago

How did I get whooshed.i know exactly how we got knowledge on this subject🤣

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u/jpjimm 2d ago

Ahh, but you missed the joke in the comment you replied to - he was kidding when he said the show Texas Ranger aired on TV in 1809.

Everyone knows that show didn't come on TV until after the failed British attempts to take over the airports in 1812.

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u/Lurker_prime21 2d ago

Damn. And I was just going to bring up those airports. Moot anyway since that's common knowledge. Just like the Bowling Green massacre.

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u/HOrnery_Occasion 2d ago

I don't know that show🤷‍♂️

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u/jpjimm 2d ago

It wasn't very good - went to cable only when the Emancipation Proclamation was announced by Lincoln. You didn't miss much.

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u/Amdvoiceofreason 2d ago

Well maybe if you went to history class in 1813, you know the one taught by George Washington you'd understand

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u/Woody2shoez 3d ago

Well you this entire thread is an echo chamber of misinformation. Vaqueros came from Spain with cattle to the Americas in the 1400s.

The origin of the cowboy is European

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u/AmpleWarning 3d ago

And if we're extrapolating like that, the Spanish originally vested their horsemanship via an influx of horses from Africa and Asia. But the cowboys of the American west are a direct product of the Mexican Vaqueros. It's not misinformation, just a short rein on degrees of separation.

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u/Woody2shoez 2d ago

It’s a very simple extrapolation. The Spanish brought mounted herding to the Americas and became and taught the locals how to do it. They are directly responsible for the existence of the “western cowboy”.

It’s pretty damn cut and dry

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u/Woody2shoez 2d ago

I mentioned that in many of my other comments

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u/jonawill05 2d ago

I guess there is only one way to do something...ever.

Just because there is an origin for something, doesn't mean it would not have naturally occurred anyway, or wasn't original in its own way. The land and requirements to survive dictate alot. This is like saying cavemen were the first to kill animals to survive and assigning all credit to them.

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u/NecroSoulMirror-89 3d ago

Nothing existed until it became popular in America you should know this… it’s like Apple pie

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u/NullnVoid669 2d ago

You know what the Spanish that lived in the Americas are called? Mexicans. Leaving out some nuance that's ultimately irrelevant, because there is nothing exactly like what we think of as vaqueros or cowboys in Europe.

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u/cheeseygarlicbread 2d ago

Thats not true. The Spanish that bred with the aztecs, mayans and other natives became Mexicans. A Spainaird doesn’t automatically become Mexican when in the Americas. WTF

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u/NullnVoid669 2d ago

They do when the country becomes Mexico. Also said I was leaving out some nuance.

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u/cheeseygarlicbread 2d ago

This is why you cant take anything on reddit seriously. So much misinformation perpetuated

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u/Geiseric222 2d ago

What people said that the American cowboys came from Mexican cattle rustlers. Which is true.

What happened before that isn’t relevant to that point

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u/MarcosAC420 2d ago

Yawn not the invaders trying to justify their forced influence on the world

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u/StovetopRitualist 2d ago

That’s impossible because it centers Europeans and not people of color. Clearly you’re just racist.

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u/Terrible_Definition4 1d ago

Yeah! Just “Tell them like it is!”