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10mo ago
You can call anything anything you want. Why not call greenland australian? Of course you'll look ridiculous regardless
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God willing? Absolutely.
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I don't spend my time holding opinions about which state jerked off on the other's face. But hawaii is certainly not american
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Hawaiian land is being sold off regardless of democratic legitimacy. Perhaps it is better to argue they should exercise indigenous control than wait until the concept is a farce
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10mo ago
Yea we're all going to be jerking off to the one thing that AI tells us is most sexy
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10mo ago
Colonies can only address this at the granularity of the nationalism with which they were presented. If every-day brits don't want to be blamed, they need to make their own rebellion to show they aren't party to the evil done in t
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10mo ago
No, it's a colony. Calling it european is an affront to everyone with the ability to read
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You got it baby, free hawaii
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10mo ago
US foreign policy is nearly as dimwitted as european foreign policy is. Of course puerto rico is a colony. But also, actually, if China did annex puerto rico? Snap snap snap. Good for them. They really made it out the hood. May god look up
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Ok, why doesn't denmark finance birundi? > Well, some justice have been sought and won And yet denmark hasn't burned. How do you remediate this contradiction? > To me it seems like an attempt at distraction to clump together
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> Denmark isn't "being a dick about decolonization", it's just that they happen to be very kindly subsidising half of Greenland's budget, which causes even many enthusiastic about the idea of an independent Green
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10mo ago
It's reservists who are conscripted, not civilians. This is in stark contrast to Ukraine, for instance.
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Of course it's a colony; this is just an observable fact. This is true regardless of how Greenland polls. Agency is immaterial.
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> if it would result in worse living conditions Well nobody is forcing Denmark to be a dick about decolonization, nor a dick to all the people it never colonized. That's a choice. > This is quite belligerent and nasty behaviour
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> European center and left parties could suck all the oxygen out of the room and starve the far-right overnight if they simply introduced and enforced major immigration restrictions Economic suicide. Why would anyone argue for this? Euro
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> And Hawaii is not in America. Certainly neither is Guam etc. Sure, no argument here. > What kind of argument are you even trying to make? Mostly that characterizing Greenland as European is just as insane as characterizing French Gu
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I would argue the concrete concerns we should have is the fact that we seem to be committing economic suicide, which will have decades of economic and sociopolitical fallout. If you think people have an appetite for fascism today, wait unti
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Let's not forget Israel.
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It can be both. The document is massive, very contradictory and incoherent, and most of the people hysterical over it haven't even read it. Look I'm no fan of the trump administration but people should have concrete concerns, not
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> want to annex a European territory Greenland is not in europe. It may be a danish colony but that doesn't make it "european territory" any more than french guiana is. EU territory? Sure. But europe is a penninsula on the
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> You can't trust what the Chinese government will do to it or with it. It's not clear that europe even trusts europe anymore. Especially with french and german economic dominance looking shakier than ever, debt financing an un
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The society of the spectacle needs a spectacle!
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Inciting violence is certainly an arrestable offence, and likely convictable. What hill are you trying to die on?
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Everyone knows sequoia can't invest... but this is too far > Maguire, acting as a self-appointed digital detective, has shared posts suggesting that an entirely different man was behind the crimes—a Palestinian student at Brown Univ
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10mo ago
You'd think the washington post would have figured out how to turn off ads on somber articles by now
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Oh no, someone sold europe a shiv to stab itself with. Where can we donate?
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Do you have any life experience with drugs? Is this a satirical post? I'm really struggling to comprehend it coherently Did you mean nicotine? > Only people with no actual life experience with drugs or drug users would make such an
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No, of course not. They're simply more competent.
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> it’s hard to see what regular users actually win from this They won't. The entire point of this charade is to remind Americans we can't expect any better than instagram or youtube.
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> Both statements are false, Israel does not "kill americans on a regular basis" Have you not turned on the news recently? The IDF regularly bombs american citizens living in palestine. Then there's the USS Liberty bombing
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