• miz [any, any]@hexbear.net
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    19 days ago

    the title refers ironically to Trump’s wild tariff pronouncements bringing India, a putative western ally, to repair relations with China. Modi also recently announced he will be making his first visit to China in seven years, which is where the “continues” probably comes from (EDIT: it could also be a reference to the recent trilateral talks between China Korea and Japan, or other similar developments).

    if you aren’t an anti-imperialist then joking references to “JDPON Don” or “Comrade Nation Builder” will not make that much sense to you

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      19 days ago

      Right, yeah okay that went right the fuck over my head - Appreciate the explainer!

      Also yeah screw imperialism in all of it’s forms, you’re speaking to a Welsh nationalist.

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        they meant extremely online anti-imperialist, which is us here at Hexbear! people around here are always happy to explain all sorts of shit with walls of text if you ask! we have a bit of a reputation from people who come in JAQing off (meaning asking bad faith questions, basically negging in debate form) which we always spot right away and we don’t play along. but when normal people just ask like “hey I don’t understand that can you explain?” everyone’s an effort poster

        Welsh nationalist.

        I know nothing about what has been done to the welsh, but I assume this means fuck the british?

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          18 days ago

          It’s less ‘Fuck the British’ and slightly more ‘Fuck the English government’ but also not really that either.

          They came to Wales, robbed us of our language (As best they could - Check the Welsh Not if you’re interested), robbed us of our resources, and now they give us scraps from a table that was never built for us, as we’re shackled to the bloated corpse of a long dead empire.

          We want out.