I, for one, welcome our new Austrian overlord. In all seriousness, though, we like the guy. He was a foreign invader so it was never gonna work out but the dude was alright. Here’s a list of things he did (or rather tried to since the country was at war and it was basically impossible to enforce anything):
Jackshit of what the conservatives wanted him to
Put a limit on working hours
Abolish child labour
Pardon most of the peonage debt and forbid sale of peons (so basically abolish slavery)
Abolish corporal punishment
Restore communal lands to indigenous people
Then he got executed and we had to wait about 50 years and go through a dictatorship to get all of that. He also just generally invested a lot into infrastructure.
Also, I was in Vienna last year, and this is a thing:
It wouldn’t exist if not for Maximilian’s brief run as Mexican emperor and I just think the world wouldn’t be the same without a burrito chain named Max & Benito.
I, for one, welcome our new Austrian overlord. In all seriousness, though, we like the guy. He was a foreign invader so it was never gonna work out but the dude was alright. Here’s a list of things he did (or rather tried to since the country was at war and it was basically impossible to enforce anything):
Then he got executed and we had to wait about 50 years and go through a dictatorship to get all of that. He also just generally invested a lot into infrastructure.
Also, I was in Vienna last year, and this is a thing:
It wouldn’t exist if not for Maximilian’s brief run as Mexican emperor and I just think the world wouldn’t be the same without a burrito chain named Max & Benito.