• UncleJoe [comrade/them]
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    3 years ago

    19th century: Places in China named after Britain

    21st century: Places in Britain named after China

  • IceWallowCum [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Semi-related, but I wonder if the "free Tibet / Hong Kong / Taiwan" Americans are keen on giving Texas and California back to Mexico

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      They haven't pulled up stakes on the military base in Guantanamo Bay yet, so I'm not holding my breath.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      3 years ago

      hell, how many Americans are in favor of giving more autonomy to Puerto Rico, or giving Guantanamo Bay back to Cuba

      or shit, how about giving Native Americans anything at all

  • comi [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    China moving its embassy around, until whole uk is named tiananmen square

  • Poetjustice [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    They voted to consider lmao. They’re not going to even do this dumb useless symbolic petty gesture that nobody in China will give a shit about.

      • Orcocracy [comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        Democracy is when someone gets a majority in a first past the post election with 40% of the vote in a contest where only 60% of the electorate actually votes in a country where only 70% of the population is eligible to vote.

  • flowernet [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    This would be equivalent to the Chinese locating the American embassy at Wallstreet Street, Latino Court, Minneapolis Road, and Puerto Rico hill.

    edit: They refer to political controversies using words that are completely neutral to popular connotations.

  • infuziSporg [e/em/eir]
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    3 years ago

    All things that China has to be proud of.

    Proud of its Heavenly Peace square where proclamations were made and where Mao is buried.

    Proud of its Uighur minority.

    Proud of its major port and financial city, Hong Kong, now Chinese again after 150 years of being twisted away by British bullies.

    Proud of its autonomous region of Tibet, which saw one of the greatest economic and social advancements of any subnational entity around the world in the 20th century.

  • machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    True but the US embassy in Kolkata (a state in India that used to have communists in power) is located on a road named "Ho Chi Minh Sharani" (translates to the Abode of Ho Chi Minh).

      • machiavellianRecluse [none/use name]
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        3 years ago

        "During the time of the Vietnam War, large demonstrations were held in India. In Calcutta in particular, the renaming of a street as Ho Chi Minh Sarani, the popularity of Ho Chi Minh sandals and the slogan “Amaar Nam Tomar Naam Vietnam” were symbolic of the huge popularity that Ho Chi Minh had."

        “Amaar Nam Tomar Naam Vietnam” translates to "My Name, Your Name, Vietnam"

        From this article: https://thewire.in/history/ho-chi-minh-vietnam

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Yes. Name the streets near the Chinese embassy after places in China. That'll really anger the See See Pee.

  • Ezze [hy/hym,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embassy_of_China,_Washington,_D.C.#Street_renaming_proposals

    Many Chinese commented online, suggesting China do just that. Proposal included "Prisoners Abused Street", "Edward Snowden Street", "Osama bin Laden Road" and even "Monica Lewinsky Street".

  • UlyssesT
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    15 days ago

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    • RandyLahey [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      their council is already named after a place synonymous with executions, torture, and imprisonment at the whims of their own capricious monarchy soooo

  • culpritus [any]
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    3 years ago

    :michael-laugh: so hard at these :LIB: s and their totally ineffectual actions

    but what else is new, amirite?