Worth noting that the Chinese ambassador also called it the Malvinas throughout, not the Falklands.

  • blobjim [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    You're literally just spewing more idealist nonsense. You know that countries are a thing that still exist right? Either Argentina gets to benefit from the islands, or Britain (lmao) does. You're saying the British should benefit because they colonized some islands hundreds of years ago and there's a couple thousand people there. If there was 1 person living in the Falklands, would that justify oil and gas drilling and a British military outpost?

      • blobjim [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Apparently poor Argentinians who could benefit from social program funding don't matter, but white British people living in a colonial outpost do.

        • WoofWoof91 [comrade/them]
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          1 year ago

          people who live in a place when they have not displaced a native population do matter more than a random government who are pursuing an imperial claim from their former imperial masters yes

        • Staines [they/them]
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          1 year ago

          Or maybe (radical, I know, wow), people matter equally, and we shouldn't forcibly deport or integrate them into various countries due to arbitrary vibes?

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            When did anyone say anything about deporting people?

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                lmao are y'all trying to do a "reverse colonialism" thing? Literally the only thing that would likely change is who they pay taxes to and where they get there food from (shipped from Argentina probably instead of shipped 7,000 miles).

                    • usernamesaredifficul [he/him]
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                      1 year ago

                      this is why the Nazi occupation of Jersey was good and socialist after all the island is closer to continental Europe than England and that is the only relevant factor when deciding which country an island should be in. The fact that they culturally are English and don't speak German or French as a rule is for some reason irrelevant here

          • blobjim [he/him]
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            1 year ago

            Does Britain have a higher standard of living than Argentina?

              • blobjim [he/him]
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                1 year ago

                Alberto Fernandez has already implemented some social policies. Countries like Venezuela use oil money to directly benefit the public. Imperial powers all have more wealth among the populations than non-imperial powers. Maybe a non-imperial power should get access to oil off their coast? It would be as easy aa nationalizing the oil there, as many countries do.

                  • blobjim [he/him]
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                    1 year ago

                    And that wealth doesn't translate into better living standards. It's almost as if capitalists will hoard resources no matte rhow much is available.

                    This is such obviously false coping.

                    Capitalist countries, famous for nationalitising resources

                    A bunch of capitalist countries have been nationalizing their resources.

                    the oil in the area is not valuable not to be extracted.

                    Must be why Britain has spent billions to setup extraction. This is just "Venezuelan crude isn't profitable" all over again. Imagine thinking oil isn't profitable.