Awoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years agoChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comexternal-linkmessage-square83fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up10arrow-down1external-linkChina backs Argentina’s Falklands claim, calls for end to ‘colonial thinking’www.scmp.comAwoo [she/her]@hexbear.net to news@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-22 years agomessage-square83fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoThere’s a lot to criticize the UK for. Fairly inhabiting barren rocks without an indigenous population isn’t one of them.
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoNobody should have control over land on the other side of the planet.
minus-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoWhy shouldn’t the Falklands be Chilean then?
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoChile is further away. Didn’t luck out I guess.
minus-squareStaines [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoChile is only 5000 meters further away. Yes, meters.
minus-squareblobjim [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoI mean why is this important? Ok, make it joint owned by Chile and Argentina. Better than Britain controlling it.
minus-squarealcoholicorn [comrade/them, doe/deer]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoChile gets the left one, Argentina gets the right one.
There’s a lot to criticize the UK for. Fairly inhabiting barren rocks without an indigenous population isn’t one of them.
Nobody should have control over land on the other side of the planet.
Why shouldn’t the Falklands be Chilean then?
Chile is further away. Didn’t luck out I guess.
Chile is only 5000 meters further away. Yes, meters.
I mean why is this important? Ok, make it joint owned by Chile and Argentina. Better than Britain controlling it.
Chile gets the left one, Argentina gets the right one.