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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Way to just completely ignore my point and move the goal posts?

Are the 13 colonies a separate country because they declared independence from the United Kingdom?

Don’t bother replying. I don’t want waste my time talking to people who can’t answer a simple question

[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'm not moving the goalposts, I'm just pointing out that it's a bit disingenuous to frame a question about what should happen in an unresolved civil war as a question of nations and their sovereignty. It would be disingenuous to frame Russia's intervention in Ukraine as defending the independence of an entire country, I think it's a similar situation between ROC/PRC, the primary difference being the length of the dispute.

Which is relevant if we're talking about how one can consistently be anti-imperialist, I think. I agree it's a bit flippant to say stuff about 'giving up Loser Island' but I think it's important to recognize that it's more complicated than 'two independent countries fighting over the territory of one of them.'

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Don’t bother replying. I don’t want waste my time talking to people who can’t answer a simple question