Comment on Suddenly seeing more hexbear posts. Did we re-federate with them?

• YeetPics@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  China (see taiwan) Russia (see crimea/ukraine)

  Wow you just got dunked on.

  Seethe

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  • Egon@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tibet was a theocratic slave state before being liberated.
    Neither the UN, the EUs member nations, the US or Taiwan thinks Taiwan is a country.

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  • SpookyGenderCommunist@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Note that they said “Most involved” Russia, for instance, has always been the modern “Sick man of Europe” since the fall of the USSR. It’s imperial aspirations don’t extend as far. And it’s relationship to the historic Core of the US and Western Europe, is as a semi-peripheral nation trying to coalesce a regional sphere of influence with itself as the center of gravity. None of that makes it a Core country though.

    Maybe if the current world system collapses, and it filled that vacuum. But that hasn’t happened.

    Imperial Core refers to the World Systems Theory of International Relations, first put forward by Immanuel Wallerstien. I would suggest you read up on the topic before making half-baked responses like this.

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  • RuthlessCriticism@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    This is so adorable.

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  • GarbageShoot@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    redsails.org/friendly-feudalism/

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• Zirconium@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Don’t forget China, Tibet?

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  • Venus@hexbear.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Tibet was an oppressive theocratic slave society whose people China liberated.

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