• QueerCommie
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    241 year ago

    Regional? When was the last time Americans were made to care about Haiti?

    • @Shrike502
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      121 year ago

      Well they did plan to send tanks there recently

      • QueerCommie
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        101 year ago

        I don’t even think most people know anything about that. There were just a few articles calling the protest leader a murderous gang leader and a couple of tweets from politicians in support of the Haitian puppet gov’s repression. I didn’t hear any of my lib friends or family talking about it.

    • @ComradeSalad
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      1 year ago

      The Monroe Doctrine, the US wagged their fingers at the European colonialist powers and removed all of the European puppet governments… before promptly replacing them with puppet governments controlled by the US.

      • QueerCommie
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        41 year ago

        All I heard about that in school was “the Monroe doctrine was when the US stood up against the colonial Europeans for self determination”

        • @ComradeSalad
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          71 year ago

          Yeah, that is utter bs. The US used it as justification to claim some colonies they wanted such as Puerto Rico, Mexico, and Cuba from weaker imperial powers like Spain and Germany, but simultaneously let their allies such as the UK, keep all their North and South American colonies.

  • @Shrike502
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    241 year ago

    something in our region matters more

    Aka “fuck you, got mine”

  • @SpaceDogs
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    161 year ago

    our own regions matter more.

    Last time I checked, as someone in Canada, Ukraine is not my region. Never been there, didn’t even know the capital until this whole shebang. It’s Kyiv, right?

    • @mauveOkra
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      101 year ago

      No, it’s Kyyyyıïyvь. If you don’t write it and pronounce it that way I will report you to HUAC.

    • stasis
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      91 year ago

      “it’s kyiv not kiev!!”

    • QueerCommie
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      71 year ago

      I think so, I was blanking on it before.