Isn't claiming territory that doesn't belong to you as yours the definition of imperialism?
They get around this by using a version of Lenin's definition of imperialism. Lenin characterised imperialism as, in very simple terms, the way that powerful capitalist countries exploit poorer countries (or straight up colonies, especially considering the time in which Lenin was writing). Of course they use a version of this that specifically defines it as just literally anything the countries they don't like do, leading to ProleWiki insisting that Russia is not imperialist but Liechtenstein is
Similarly to how 'reactionary' just means 'bad' to these people. For the record a 'reactionary' is somebody who wants to restore a previous status quo. It's not inherently good or bad.
By this logic, Australia, America, India and a ton of other countries are still part of England.
"No, not like that!" - tankies
Wait till Portugal and Spain get hold of this.
Most of England belongs to Rome!
Except for that northern bit across the wall.
Calling it North Korea and not the Democratic People's Republic of Korea?
- USA belongs to Great Britain
- England and France belongs to the Roman empire
- Poland belongs to Prussia
England belongs to roman empire too.
Oh wait, does that mean US belongs to the roman empire all along?
No countries are real. Everything belongs to everyone because our ancestors were there first.
The US belongs to the UK. But you can keep the Bible belt, we don't want that bit.
if you don't support imperialism, you're supporting imperialism
My favorite brand of rage is the kind i feel when someone says a bunch of evil things and then follows it with "if you disagree, youre the evil one"
These countries that want to be free and independent should be owned by another country that wants to own them and if you disagree you support imperialism... mind-boggling
It's a neat little trick how fascists say things that are the exact opposite of objective reality, and don't see the irony.
It's part of the playbook. That's his you eliminate the possibility of a good criticism, everything becomes spiderman meme
TIL there are "'correct" .ml communities.
Well there sure as hell are "incorrect" ones, apparently.
!opensource@lemmy.ml and other open source projects are decent
As always, !linux@programming.dev and !opensource@programming.dev are here as alternatives
FWIW, the full list of disputed territories is much longer than you think. Basically, every map in existence is also picking sides whether they know it or not; a realization I find chilling.
Within Russia, "imperialism" means "opposition of Russian imperialism", and "fascism" is just used as "opposition of not supporting the Russian government".
POV: you wrote anything anywhere and you don't have hexabear/lemmygrad/lemmyml blocked.
Texas belongs to Mexico
Louisiana (Kansas, Missouri, Dakotas, Minnesota) belongs to France! 🇫🇷
Imagine looking at millions of people living in the relatively prosperous democracy of South Korea and believing that all these people belong as chattel slaves of a monarch who starves his people and throws entire families into concentration camps to die if one member dares to speak out. Every regime supported here is a fascist dictator.
Most Communists I know of are very much pro-Rojava on account of their attempts to build a socialistic society.
Seems like a bait tweet to me.
"If you don't support the rights of these imperialistic fascist regimes to do imperialistic and fascist things then you are an imperialist and a fascist."
Yeah okay. Sure.
Did they provide any justification for the claim? Or is it just the usual "because I said so"?
huh? isnt china the top imperialist in the list? who gained more land in the last decade? pfff lemmygrads are a special kind of stupid.
I can’t believe they would grandstand like that and leave out “America belongs to the natives”. Pretty weird.
Do they even know what "imperialism" means?
Their definition of imperialism is the USA, and only the USA.
Facepalm