As the U.S. government built its latest stretch of border wall, Mexico made a statement of its own by laying remains of the Berlin Wall a few steps away.

The 3-ton pockmarked, gray concrete slab sits between a bullring, a lighthouse and the border wall, which extends into the Pacific Ocean.

May this be a lesson to build a society that knocks down walls and builds bridges,” reads the inscription below the towering Cold War relic, attributed to Tijuana Mayor Montserrat Caballero and titled, “A World Without Walls.”

  • @CookieJarObserver
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    -310 months ago

    Difference is that the one divided a country in two the other is dividing two different countries.

    • Flying Squid
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      They were two different countries at the time. That’s like calling the Koreas a divided country.

      • @[email protected]
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        10 months ago

        Not true. Germany was divided into two countries by the allied forces and Russia after WWII…

        • Flying Squid
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          Feel free to educate me then. How were they not two different countries at the time? The U.N. recognized them as such.

          • @CookieJarObserver
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            -110 months ago

            That you think Mexiko and USA are the same people you divide by a border. Its not like that.

            • Flying Squid
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              I said the Koreas, not the US and Mexico. Did you not read what I wrote?

              Again, please explain how West Germany and East Germany were not two separate countries when even the U.N. recognized their independent sovereignty.

              • @CookieJarObserver
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                Because you are literally shifting the goalposts around. They are both borders that divide a people.

                And nobody gives a fuck About UN, they are a joke.

                • Flying Squid
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                  So North Korea is not a country either? That is your contention? I’m stupid, remember, so I am trying to get this clear.