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-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-21 year agoThere’s a lot to criticize the UK for. Fairly inhabiting barren rocks without an indigenous population isn’t one of them.
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoNobody should have control over land on the other side of the planet.
minus-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoWhy shouldn’t the Falklands be Chilean then?
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoChile is further away. Didn’t luck out I guess.
minus-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoChile is only 5000 meters further away. Yes, meters.
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·1 year agoI mean why is this important? Ok, make it joint owned by Chile and Argentina. Better than Britain controlling it.
minus-squarealcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoChile gets the left one, Argentina gets the right one.
minus-squareGorbinOutOverHere [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoYou’re right, Argentina’s shouldn’t have control over an island hundreds of miles away, glad we could agree
There’s a lot to criticize the UK for. Fairly inhabiting barren rocks without an indigenous population isn’t one of them.
Nobody should have control over land on the other side of the planet.
Why shouldn’t the Falklands be Chilean then?
Chile is further away. Didn’t luck out I guess.
Chile is only 5000 meters further away. Yes, meters.
I mean why is this important? Ok, make it joint owned by Chile and Argentina. Better than Britain controlling it.
Chile gets the left one, Argentina gets the right one.
You’re right, Argentina’s shouldn’t have control over an island hundreds of miles away, glad we could agree