• DengXixian [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Why are all these former colonies of my empire filled with swarms of perverts obsessed with “liberation” kink? Extremely distasteful

    :speech-r: :bojo:

  • FidelCastro [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    “Sovereignty fetish” is a talking point that surprisingly shows up in a number of chauvinist cope pieces around any country that doesn’t immediately bow to the interests of the imperial core.

  • FidelCastro [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    It might have something to do with the 2 Opium Wars in 1840 and 1856, the Eight-Nation Alliance invasion in 1900, and the 27 concessions since 1845.

    If the colonizers are sincerely confused as to why the formerly colonized have a “fetish for sovereignty”, they can start there.

    • LeninWeave [none/use name]
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      2 years ago

      and the 27 concessions since 1845

      Especially this. Westerners, including leftists, never seem to think about this or connect it to Hong Kong and Taiwan today.

  • Diogenes_Barrel [love/loves]
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    2 years ago

    western countries, who care so little for their soverignty they erect walls on their borders and carefully police every person they let inside

  • 4zi [he/him, comrade/them]
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    2 years ago

    america murdered millions of native americans to defend its so called 'manifest destiny' to be sovereign over the continent, but thats not "sovereignty fundamentalism?"

    • Ligma_Male [comrade/them]
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      2 years ago

      i took it to mean in their dealings with other countries, i.e. keeping their partners sovereign rather than destroying the sovereignty of their neighbors like the US did, but OP is a :LIB: and didn't post the link so who knows

  • SoyViking [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    Westoids: Bloody murder! Russia is violating Ukraine's sacrosanct sovereignty! This affront to God and nature cannot stand!

    Also westoids: Gee, why are these Chinese weirdos so worked up about their sovereignty?

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    This sounds like the kind of question a history teacher could ask me that would prompt me to give a based as hell answer.

  • Mardoniush [she/her]
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    2 years ago

    My brother in Christ you literally base the entire notion of the modern western state solely on the concept of Westphalian Sovereignty.

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    16 days ago

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