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[+] -12 points 3 months ago* (3 children)

It's not real colonialism. It's Sparkling Regime Change.

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  • [–] 21 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    What regime did the English change when they showed up to an uninhabited island a few hundred years ago?

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  • [–] -5 points 3 months ago

    The British came to the island for resupply and left again, much like prior native peoples who had been visiting the island for centuries. And the British, along with French and Spanish peers, decimated the nearby locals to make the islands exclusive

    Later, British explicitly removed the island from Argentinian territorial control, back in 1833. But the islands have been changing colonial hands since the 1700s they've had visitors from the mainland going back to prehistoric times.

    Claiming it's uninhabitable after Europeans spent decades ethnically cleansing the mainland is cynical af.

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