Awoo [she/her] to news • edit-21 year agoChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’external-linkmessage-square290 fedilinkarrow-up1153file-text
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minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear16·1 year ago a fascist military junta tried to seize the islands against the wishes of 99% of the inhabitants this is what you're defending lol (not throwing shade just saying) link
minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear13·1 year agocounter-counterpoint, the invaders were overt fascists link
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]hexbear11·1 year agoWell the fascists are gone but the British remain. Time to get that territory under Argentinian control. link
minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear12·1 year agopursuing an imperial spanish claim to own the inhabitants of a pointless little island chain link
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]hexbear11·1 year agoDon't pretend that Argentina is still the Spanish Empire. They're an actual local government. And it's not a "pointless" island chain. Britain is literally drilling for oil and gas there right now. Totally innocent definitely-not-imperialism: https://rockhopperexploration.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Rockhopper-Annual-Report-2022-WEB-FINAL.pdf They're just islanders guys, pay no attention to the British navy ships and oil drilling! link
minus-squareWoofWoof91 [comrade/them]hexbear10·1 year agoi'm not lmao the argentinian claim is inherited from the spanish colonial government link
this is what you're defending lol (not throwing shade just saying)
Counterpoint: the inhabitants were British.
counter-counterpoint, the invaders were overt fascists
Well the fascists are gone but the British remain. Time to get that territory under Argentinian control.
pursuing an imperial spanish claim to own the inhabitants of a pointless little island chain
Don't pretend that Argentina is still the Spanish Empire. They're an actual local government. And it's not a "pointless" island chain. Britain is literally drilling for oil and gas there right now.
Totally innocent definitely-not-imperialism: https://rockhopperexploration.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Rockhopper-Annual-Report-2022-WEB-FINAL.pdf
They're just islanders guys, pay no attention to the British navy ships and oil drilling!
i'm not lmao
the argentinian claim is inherited from the spanish colonial government