Chaos in the restive region—one regime leader details expansionist agenda, while another appears to recognize foreign law.
    • VILenin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      If this was in China they'd get widespread coverage for months and enough CIA funding to feed everyone on the planet for the next century

      • CommCat [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        just imagine what just happened in India, happened in China instead. Indian para military shot and killed around 14 Northeast Indian civilians in Nagaland because they got bad intel and thought the miners were militants. If China was the culprit, we would never hear the end of it in the West.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      the stirrings of balkanization being written about in a weird way that I think was intended as humorous but just reads straight for historical materialists

    • FirstToServe [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2021/11/12/oroville-is-constitutional-republic-what-does-that-mean/

      I was just as bewildered as you were and I guess people here are acting like it's a bit? Apparently the town part is real

      • EthicalHumanMeat [he/him]
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        3 years ago

        I think the framing of the article is supposed to be the bit.

        Although it is also objectively accurate in a way that the lib writer can't fully accept.

  • Sushi_Desires
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    3 years ago

    What the...

    Apparently this is the place in California that voted to fake secede (they choose to not observe state or federal "orders" they don't like) because they were tired of wearing masks. But this vice article is straight wild with phrases like "separatist leaders" "expansionist agenda" and "internecine conflict."

    • KollontaiWasRight [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      I think it's a bit about how this would be covered in a developing nation that is purposefully playing on the overstated rhetoric.