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[–] [email protected] 217 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Isn't claiming territory that doesn't belong to you as yours the definition of imperialism?

[–] [email protected] 98 points 1 month ago (2 children)

They get around this by using a version of Lenin's definition of imperialism. Lenin characterised imperialism as, in very simple terms, the way that powerful capitalist countries exploit poorer countries (or straight up colonies, especially considering the time in which Lenin was writing). Of course they use a version of this that specifically defines it as just literally anything the countries they don't like do, leading to ProleWiki insisting that Russia is not imperialist but Liechtenstein is

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Similarly to how 'reactionary' just means 'bad' to these people. For the record a 'reactionary' is somebody who wants to restore a previous status quo. It's not inherently good or bad.

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

It all starts with a flag.

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[–] [email protected] 136 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (10 children)

By this logic, Australia, America, India and a ton of other countries are still part of England.

[–] [email protected] 99 points 1 month ago (1 children)

"No, not like that!" - tankies

[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Wait till Portugal and Spain get hold of this.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Most of England belongs to Rome!

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Except for that northern bit across the wall.

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[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 month ago (4 children)

And Skyrim belongs to the Nords!

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[–] [email protected] 61 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Calling it North Korea and not the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Pretty sure you mean “Best Korea”

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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 month ago (3 children)
  • USA belongs to Great Britain
  • England and France belongs to the Roman empire
  • Poland belongs to Prussia
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (8 children)

England belongs to roman empire too.

Oh wait, does that mean US belongs to the roman empire all along?

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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago (1 children)

No countries are real. Everything belongs to everyone because our ancestors were there first.

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[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 month ago (10 children)

The US belongs to the UK. But you can keep the Bible belt, we don't want that bit.

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[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There's no possible way this isn't bait.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I wish to return to the time where I could have agreed with you

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[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

if you don't support imperialism, you're supporting imperialism

[–] [email protected] 41 points 1 month ago (2 children)

But Russia officially belongs to Mongolia

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (14 children)

My favorite brand of rage is the kind i feel when someone says a bunch of evil things and then follows it with "if you disagree, youre the evil one"

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago (23 children)

It's a neat little trick how fascists say things that are the exact opposite of objective reality, and don't see the irony.

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Isn't people 'belonging' someone else a definition of slavery?

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[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (6 children)

TIL there are "'correct" .ml communities.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

Well there sure as hell are "incorrect" ones, apparently.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago

[email protected] and other open source projects are decent

As always, [email protected] and [email protected] are here as alternatives

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

FWIW, the full list of disputed territories is much longer than you think. Basically, every map in existence is also picking sides whether they know it or not; a realization I find chilling.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_territorial_disputes

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[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Within Russia, "imperialism" means "opposition of Russian imperialism", and "fascism" is just used as "opposition of not supporting the Russian government".

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Louisiana (Kansas, Missouri, Dakotas, Minnesota) belongs to France! 🇫🇷

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago

*California, Nevada, Utah, Colorado, Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 month ago

POV: you wrote anything anywhere and you don't have hexabear/lemmygrad/lemmyml blocked.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago

Imagine looking at millions of people living in the relatively prosperous democracy of South Korea and believing that all these people belong as chattel slaves of a monarch who starves his people and throws entire families into concentration camps to die if one member dares to speak out. Every regime supported here is a fascist dictator.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 month ago (6 children)

Most Communists I know of are very much pro-Rojava on account of their attempts to build a socialistic society.

Seems like a bait tweet to me.

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[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 month ago

"If you don't support the rights of these imperialistic fascist regimes to do imperialistic and fascist things then you are an imperialist and a fascist."

Yeah okay. Sure.

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Did they provide any justification for the claim? Or is it just the usual "because I said so"?

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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (19 children)
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[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 month ago

huh? isnt china the top imperialist in the list? who gained more land in the last decade? pfff lemmygrads are a special kind of stupid.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (2 children)

There are only wrong .ml communities

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (3 children)

is this the hexbear manifestó

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[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I can’t believe they would grandstand like that and leave out “America belongs to the natives”. Pretty weird.

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[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Do they even know what "imperialism" means?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago

Their definition of imperialism is the USA, and only the USA.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 month ago (11 children)

Uh...Russia, China and North Korea are all fascist dictatorships. Tankies wouldn't be nearly as annoying if they had a fucking clue what they were taking about.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Know the most annoying part?

All these LGBTQ+ tankies from Hexbear would literally be killed in those countries for supporting LGBTQ+. And the cops will say that they deserve it.

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