About imperialism and empires, most people here in the US don’t even know that we are imperialists. We have territories all over the globe and military bases in practically every country, the only reason we don’t receive massive backlash (at least for the territories) is that most of them are not populated enough for there to be any major opposition movements. Imagine if the Philippines were still under the US, as a territory, we would receive massive opposition for occupying the nation. Honestly its sad how (at least here in the US) we downplay important facts like this.
Terra saxonia and Greater lenoland
Southern kiwansca
I think that the overseas territories of the former British empire should be independent
Does Northern Ireland count as “over seas”, because NI in my opinion should be part of Ireland. The only reason that most of the people in NI want to remain with the UK, is a result of decades of the UK sending Protestant missionary’s and English officials to NI to assimilate it into the UK.
Phinxia, Yeniseysk, Terra saxonia, Kiwansca, and 1 otherSouthern kiwansca
Kiwansca
I was looking at separatist movements around the world, and I found Hawaii and I agree because I believe they must have a national identity of their own (and remembering that Hawaii was once a monarchy)
"overseas territory" means not in the UK, and NI is part of the UK. on one hand i'd love to see a unified ireland, but on the other hand the rep of ireland is an antichoice mess and ireland/scotland/wales leaving the uk leaves us poor english folk stuck with the tories - please don't leave us to suffer XD
(This is majorly oversimplified) Pope drew a line on a map one day and said one part was for Spain and the other for Portugal. When the English showed up and claimed the islands the French also showed up on the other half of the islands. The Spanish approached the French and told them "Hey, Pope says its ours" and so the French gave them their half and warned them about the British on the other half. Spain told the British to go away, and the British refused to, until the American Revolution came around and the islands were left for the Spanish. Spain controlled it until the revolutions in the Americas, after which the United Provinces of the Rio de La Plata laid claim to the islands until the British came back around again and reclaimed them. Argentina has not been able to reclaim the islands for themselves since, with their invasion in the 1980s having failed.
That is actually super helpful, thank you :) I was thinking, "I should probably look this up later, it's something I know next to nothing about" and now I probably know as much as I would have managed to find out haha
Might I add that the US backed both sides (under treaty), but sent aid only to the UK (A nation that was about 13,000 Km away and has a history of imperialism) in favor of sending aid to Argentina (which is less than 300 Km away and has no history of overseas imperialism)
QUESTION: What music are you guys into? I am curious on what you guys like to listen to. I am into all genres, but probably my favorite is probably early jazz and classical music from the 1920s to the 1950s (trombone player lol).d
edit: i'm glad someone said that they liked russian music from the 90s, as I do as well! I also like some yugoslav music from that same time period (Roki Vulvoic, Honeymoon, Kerber, etc..). Also, thank you for all of the reposts. I'm trying to read all of them, so please give me some time to respond to your comments.
What the populace wants does not matter. The residents should be relocated and the islands repopulated with loyal Argentine citizens, just as was done with loyal Russians in Kaliningrad Oblast.
Nokhchi-cho
that's inhumane, I do not think anyone should be replaced, their vote is their vote, even if you don't agree with it
Both of your opinions are wrong. Wtf? I don't think I need to explain why grease pit's is bad right? But "their vote is their vote" is also (edit, stupid was rude of me.). Obviously people can vote for absolutely horrendous things that even though the majority support, it should not be accepted. In this case, the vote to stay part of the British empire screws over South American nations as the brits have a point of influence into South America.
The vestiges of Imperialism must be destroyed wherever they are found.
Southern kiwansca
Stanielle
I'm going to say that replacing the people of a place with "loyal Argentinans" is stupid and genocidal. I may have been a little bit harsher than necessary on the second person though.
Replacing them in their context meant moving them out of the Malvinas not killing them, so not genocidal. It would destabilize them with such abrupt relocation and probably wouldn't be fun for any Argentinians moving in either. Just because it is a bad idea does not mean you have the right to be rude to them.
Honestly, I'm into Socialist music Like, classical Socialist music, both ideological (The Internationale, the Warszawianka 1905 and so on) and proletarian (The Harvest Song, Warsaw Day, Millions of Hands [Miliony Rąk]). I also Like the 1920's music and the 1950's. I'm a bit into the 1990's music era but mostly in russia Like „Summer is ending, Goodbye forever, Time to go home" and so on and so forth.
Get out of here. Anti imperialism and decolonization doesn't mean genocide. Edit. I just saw UFROE's post. Do be grease pit. specific what do you mean by replacing? What is your plan for replacing?
Generally I like any song that bops, but Jazz, Classical, and Video-game music are at the top of my list. Also socialist and communist marches and hymns are also pretty good. (Yes VG music is a genre) (former trumpet player)
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