calcopiritus comments on After beating England, Argentine football players waved a banner which said: "The Malvinas Islands (Falkland) belong to Argentina"

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (9 children)

Asking the people that currently leave there is not always the correct course of action though.

You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

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[–] jumjummy@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (5 children)

Except in this case there was nobody living on the island, so the “natives” are all of European descent and overwhelmingly (like 90+%) want to stay part of the UK.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (1 child)

1,513 voted yes to stay part of the UK overseas territories. 3 people voted no.

Even those no voters were not saying yes to Argentinian rule.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 5 points 3 months ago

I believe some (or all) said they did it for a prank.

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[+] calcopiritus@lemmy.world -9 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah, that happens when you kick out the existing argentinian/spanish settlement (I don't remember if it was before/after independence) and bring your own British settlers, as I explained before.

Idk what European descent has to do with anything. Many Argentinians are of European descent.

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[–] Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago*

Yeah, that happens when you kick out the existing argentinian/spanish settlement

The settlers complained of the conditions they were living in and asserted that Vernet had misled them. Duncan offered passage to the mainland and most settlers chose to leave

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 4 points 3 months ago

The islands were totally abandoned and relinquished when the British arrived.

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[–] Gorilladrums@lemmy.world -3 points 3 months ago (2 children)

You want that land over there? Then you just have to kill/displace anyone currently living there, then fill it with your own citizens, then ask them. Easy land grab. Also a genocide.

That's virtually all of human history.

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[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 2 points 3 months ago

But not the Falklands, when the British arrived the population consisted of Penguins and nothing else.

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