• Blake [he/him]@feddit.uk
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    1 year ago

    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

    • Doubledee [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      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.’