Two layers of electrified, barbed wire, with armed guards to keep a colony secure. Colonialism has never actually ended

  • SerLava [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    The Spanish exclave cities have been both casus belli and staging grounds for colonial wars on Morocco. Melilla was just a garrison until the Hispano-Moroccan war of 1860 after which they rapidly built a city.

    The whole point of owning territory there is to control Mediterranean shipping, not to have a laugh on the beach.

    • camaron28 [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      Sure, as i said, it's a city, not a resort. Comparing it with all those turist cities for white people in third world countries is disingenous.

      • SerLava [he/him]
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        4 years ago

        Ok but you get what Gibraltar is for? It's so they could shoot boats right? Same idea there, just a bit earlier. Gibraltar has a city too, I can put a city anywhere. Jamestown was a city.

            • camaron28 [he/him]
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              4 years ago

              ?¿?¿?¿?¿?

              You just compared them, what's your point?

              • SerLava [he/him]
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                4 years ago

                Gibraltar also being a tax haven is just completely irrelevant, it wasn't established so they could have a stupid tax haven, it was established to shoot boats and extract wealth from the Mediterranean, you keep saying it's a tax haven,

                and wait a minute

                https://tax-free.today/blog/setting-company-in-spain

                the Spanish government has granted them 50% tax exemption, both for commercial companies and personal assets. In other words, if you manage a company in the Spanish enclaves, you’ll only pay half of the usual corporate tax and income tax.

                https://taxsummaries.pwc.com/spain/corporate/tax-credits-and-incentives

                50% tax credit on CIT levied on income obtained in Ceuta and Melilla through companies established and carrying on activities in these enclaves during a full business cycle because of their specific geographic location.

                :cringe: they're even tax havens lmao

              • Gayan [undecided]
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                4 years ago

                Being a tax haven while pissing off the spanish is so much better than having a colony within pits of barbed wire and eletric fences in african soil conquered during the colonial period.