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[–] PanArab@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago)

I sure hope the UK collapses or at least Scotland gains independence within my lifetime

Also 26+6=1

[–] transnationalmaoist@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

You really think that the UK might not exist within a decade? I honestly think that's idealistic/wishful thinking.

[–] yogthos@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 4 hours ago

I think it's entirely possible that the UK will have a huge economic crash and at that point Ireland and Scotland could exist the union as a result. All the economic indicators right now show that the UK is in really deep trouble, and it's likely only gonna get worse going forward.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

Ukraine didn't exist for most of these years.

Edit: holy shit they meant for the incoming 100 years? This is even more hilarious.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Ukraine didn't exist for most of these years.

What is that even supposed to mean? Plenty of nations have been oppressed and denied self determination, that doesn't mean those nations didn't exist. Basque doesn't exist as a country, does it mean one can't express solidarity with their struggle for the past 100 years?

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

I first thought it meant 100 year partnership as in 100 year relations between them until now, not for the future, hence I said that Ukraine as a country didn't exist for most of that time, it was Soviet Union.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry for jumping the gun there comrade.

Although Ukraine did exist within the USSR, it was officially called Ukrainian SSR but everyone called it Ukraine, same as Russia was officially Russian SFSR but you wouldn't say Russia didn't exist.

[–] Kirbywithwhip1987@lemmygrad.ml 4 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

I mean tecnically they were both part of one merged country and didn't exist as countries, same as Czechia and Slovakia didn't exist but Czechoslovakia did.

But I meant Ukraine as in current and WW2 form, Nazikraine if you will.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

Czechia and Slovakia weren't separate entities the way Soviet republics were.

Bandera cult is horrific and Banderites get the wall, but calling the whole country Nazikraine is really shitty, especially considering all the death and destruction brought on Ukraine by Western meddling and coups and local compradors. Do better.

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 22 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

Abolish England. I am actually serious. They are not a country that should exist.

[–] Red_Scare@lemmygrad.ml 7 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (2 children)

Just balkanize it, put comprador puppets in charge, stoke ethnic hatred to create intense ethnic violence and widespread atrocities, wreck the economy, loot everything of value, inflation 10,000% so that people's life savings can't buy a single meal, so that there's widespread child prostitution leading to child abuse of the most deadly drugs, have all that devastate the country so much it has the largest peacetime drop in age expectancy in recorded human history, like they did USSR... And then bomb it to absolute rubble, like Libya, to bring "peace and democracy", so that no organised society can form for decades, so that the main economic activity arecopen-air slave markets, so that predictable storms and floods that the old government could easily deal with become events of apocalyptic proportions cause there's nobody to organise a response... And then do what Israel has been doing in Gaza with full support of the UK.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

As much as I like poetic justice, and I understand the sentiment, I can't support this.

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Comrades aside, they deserve all of this.

I was going to say, they created an economic system that feeds on misery, but that's just capitalism including the highest stage of it, imperialism, and they were the lead innovators of it. So I didn't think of anything new lol.

[–] cayde6ml@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 6 hours ago

As much as I like poetic justice, and I understand the sentiment, I can’t support this.

[–] ksynwa@lemmygrad.ml 6 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Truly a blight on humanity. I say we vacate the area for a hundred years or so. Maybe whatever makes the island the abhorrence that it is will have dissipated by then.

Even now they are the dirty money capital of the world. Housing the wealth of the world's oligarchs as their native populations are relegated to poverty and destitution. I am almost convinced no one there has ever earned an honest dollar, or should I say pound.

Marxism–Leninism with Brithonic Characteristics

[–] CascadeOfLight@hexbear.net 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Bring back the Heptarchy but with socialist republics

[–] supersolid_snake@lemmygrad.ml 3 points 12 hours ago

Ty, i learned something today.