Nah, I ain't celebrating jerks who fought to preserve slavery.
this post was submitted on 05 Nov 2025
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Slave owners sure were an uppity bunch weren’t they?
We visited San Antonio last year and my wife was excited to visit the Alamo while I had to deal with work stuff.
I asked how it was, and she recommends forgetting it.
It's remarkably boring and any gravitas it would have is undermined by the mall on the river walk right next to it. The whole place is an underwhelming tourist trap.
Sounds like she missed out on the basement tour
Yes, 09/11, the day the Alamo towers fell, killing 6 million Jews. Never forget! Never again!
The King of England narrowly escaped from what I remember..
A Texan coworker of mine got his Norwegian citizenship last month, after first moving here well over a decade ago. First thing I did was to DM him "You forgot about the Alamo, didn't you? 😢"
No. What happened?
This is my gringo summary:
Antonio López de Santa Anna became president 11 times and illegal white settlers didn't want to give up their slaves or their protestantism.
Someone stole a bike and hid it in the basement.
What are they, German?
You must be a fellow Dutchman!
Glad someone got the joke. :P
I used to live down the street from it so I remember it from time to time. Unless you're Texan, formally Texan, or you're currently in Texas I don't see why someone would care.
Yeah that happened. There's nothing to do in San Antonio but drink.
I meant to leave that as a top level comment. But I am leaving it.
🤘
You remembered it now, son. That's the important thing. Probably.
No, today is November the 5th, the Alamo takes a break today.
Only when we watch Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, which is remembered more.
Not texan but i remeber. The slave holding traitors that didnt want to give up their slaves and fought 2 treason wars to keep their "property"
Texans have few things to be proud of, which is why they care so much about dumb shit like the alamo and buc-ees.
The absolute obsession with genocide and colonialism completely repelled me from Texas and I will never go back. I hated Texas more than any other trip I've ever been on in my life, with the exception of New York city.
Where did you go in Texas?
I hate Texas too, but that's because I spent the grand majority of my life there. The food is good at least.
It was over 20 years ago so you'll have to forgive some lapses and memory for me, but we rented a car and we were in houston, austin, san antonio then we drove south to do some exploration and hiking.
Maybe I'm being a little dramatic saying I hated it, but there was so little for me to enjoy it felt like a massive disappointment. The little culture I did bump into seemed very forced & disingenuous. So many of the people I met were superficially nice, but hayseed ignoramii
Can't really blame ya for that take, Texas is a real evil place. There are some funky spots around Houston if you go looking for them like the Orange Show. San Antonio does have beautiful historical buildings, the Aztec Theater which is a great venue, and the most soulless monsters you'll ever meet. Austin used to be extremely fun and weird before it became a knock off Silicone Valley.
Hope you got some enchiladas and a kolache.
That shitty car rental company won't let me forget.
TO HELL WITH SPAIN, REMEMBER THE MAINE!!!
Was that not a game where a guy gave a neo-nazi "sermon"?
YEE HAW