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One of these is an authoritarian imperialist empire, the other is China (lemmy.ml)

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[–] frisbird@lemmy.ml 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Still not a good analogy because Puerto Rico was never a state of the USA. It would be more like if Long Island had been invaded by England and occupied after England beat the US in a war, and then the US had a war to kick the English off long island and then had a civil war immediately afterward and the loser fled to Long Island and said "we are the rightful government of the USA" and then Spain came by and started arming the fuck out of them while the loser of the civil war ran a fascist dictatorship for 40 years and killed tens of thousands of its own people for ever saying "maybe we could just negotiate a final surrender?"

[–] RiverRock@lemmy.ml 12 points 6 days ago

Yeah it's not perfect but I needed a small island off america lol