I’m gonna be really honest with you. That was a shit analogy.
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zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
It’s hard for Americans to think of a historical equivalent. Imagine if Texas managed to splinter off and join the UK common wealth during the Civil war.
_cryptagion@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
The premise was that there really isn’t a historical equivalent. The analogy being shit is kind of the point.
jaschen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Nope. Not even close. Imagine if the Union lost and was held up in Hawaii and the Confederacy was trying to take over the island.
The original China lost the civil war.
alykanas@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
Or just imagine the annexation of Hawaii by the USA . Which they did .
alcoholicorn@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
I mean it’d be more like if the confederate government ran away to Hawaii, then spent decades terrorizing/genocide the locals/anyone left of Nathan Bedford Forrest, while Russia gave them a bunch of weapons and ships and put military bases in Canada, Mexico, and Cuba.
jaschen@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Except it’s not. The original China government was not the ones who started the civil war.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
That is a much better example. I will borrow this for the future. Thank you.
zbyte64@awful.systems 2 months ago
Like I said, hard to find a historical equivalent. Like which side would you compare the execution of landlords? The north paid the slavers restitutions instead.