Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agoChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square92fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-21 year agomessage-square92fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareNotKrause [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year ago How very convenient these Falklanders aren’t asking to be their own sovereign country but part of the UK This really hits the nail in the head: if the issue here is “sovereignty” then shouldn’t they reject both Argentina AND the UK?
minus-squareGorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoIt’s 4000 shepherds on a rock, you understand that autarky has consequences right
minus-squareNotKrause [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·edit-21 year ago It’s 4000 shepherds on a rock It’s “4000 shepherds on a rock” who give the United Kingdom territory in South America, if it was “just 4000 shepherds” they would be fine without the UK’s military presence in the region. https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/09/liberation.htm
minus-squareClimateChangeAnxiety [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year ago if it was “just 4000 shepherds” they would be fine without the UK’s military presence in the region Right, Argentina never invaded it before and started displacing the people who live there. That definitely did not happen.
This really hits the nail in the head: if the issue here is “sovereignty” then shouldn’t they reject both Argentina AND the UK?
It’s 4000 shepherds on a rock, you understand that autarky has consequences right
It’s “4000 shepherds on a rock” who give the United Kingdom territory in South America, if it was “just 4000 shepherds” they would be fine without the UK’s military presence in the region.
https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1938/09/liberation.htm
Right, Argentina never invaded it before and started displacing the people who live there. That definitely did not happen.