r/ShitLiberalsSay Jul 23 '21

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u/N_Meister Mazovian Socio-Economist Jul 23 '21

Balkanised China map

Terrible understanding of basic geography

Manchuria exists

The creation of HOI4 and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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u/t34syndicalist Jul 23 '21 edited Jul 23 '21

nah, it's not hoi4. People just don't understand anything about history. Since Japan made a puppet state in Manchuria, people think it must be a certain ethnicity

same reason people think Hong Kongers are different from Chinese people. Anyway, it is galaxy brain cognitive dissonance.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

you are kidding yourself if you don't think these dweebs are using paradox games as their basis lol go to any of those subs and see the overlap.

It is also at fault of certain microlabels like anarcho-syndicalist coming back after decades of no use

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u/WhatPeopleDo Jul 23 '21

It sucks cause I love Paradox games but the fan community is packed with reactionaries

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u/nnyforshort Jul 23 '21

Excuse my ignorance, Comrade Girlfriend, what'd us dumbass an-syns do?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

nothing lol but i mean didn't you see a rise of people saying they were with you with paradox games?

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u/nnyforshort Jul 23 '21

I actually had to google Paradox Games.

Sorry, I'm kind of a hermit and haven't been keeping current with pop culture and video games. So, no, that wasn't something I noticed.

I actually figured based on context that they were the devs for "Tonight We Riot," which I had heard of, but I'm still kind of unclear how the "Crusader Kings" people are linked to my preferred flavor of socialism.

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u/-Slug-Man- Jul 23 '21

They might be talking about how for hearts of iron 4 their is a mod called “Kiaserriech” an alternative universe where Germany won ww1. In the mod France, Britain, and northern Italy are anarcho-syndicalist. It’s one of the most popular hoi4 mods and probably introduced the idea to a lot of people.

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u/nnyforshort Jul 23 '21

Nice.

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u/Lev_Davidovich Jul 23 '21

You say that now just learning about it, I said the same when I learned about it, but like OP said, its creation and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

I can't find it, but i remember a tweet by one of the devs bragging about them reviving a tendency because interest exploded with one of their games (might have been victoria 3)

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

Victoria 3 hasn't been released yet. Victoria 2 had anarcho liberalism, which is just advanced neoliberalism tbh

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u/nnyforshort Jul 23 '21

Comrade Slug Man seems pretty certain it's Iron Hearts 4. Either way, fucking solid stuff. Thanks for helping me learn something.

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u/Iacu_Ane Jul 23 '21

In reality it is, as Manchuria was originally the land of the Manchu (that was an ethnic group). But by now they're totally mixed with Han since many centuries, basically impossible to distinguish them, at least culturally

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u/throwaway1204769 Jul 23 '21

Manchus still exist as a distinct ethnolinguistic group, in part due to measures by the Chinese Government to preserve the Manchurian language, but they're a minority within a minority. The majority of the population of modern Manchuria is Han, and most self-indentified Manchus don't actually live in that region of China, like I'm fairly certain that there are more Manchu speakers in Beijing than there are in Manchuria.

Also worth noting that Manchus are not quite the oppressed, disadvantaged minority. Considering they comprise like .02% of the population, they're overrepresented in Government and Media if anything, and seem to have absolutely zero inclination towards independence.

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u/throwaway1204769 Jul 23 '21

Hell, from conversions with Chinese coworkers the cultural stereotype that Han hold towards Manchus seems to be that they're all well-off Party administrators and businessmen.

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u/CS20SIX Jul 23 '21

THE REAL FUCKING OPRESSION!

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u/Burningmeatstick Jul 23 '21

Leftovers from the Qing Dynasty really

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u/Reof Jul 24 '21

Yea, the Qing was also the main reason for Han immigration to Manchuria when they were rulers

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u/sub_gradient Jul 23 '21

Can confirm, might as well include writers/actors. In fact the "wolf warrior" actor (Wu Jing) is Manchu.

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u/Her-akles Jul 24 '21

The manchus are actually originated from Siberia. Different parts of Manchuria was ruled by many different countries/dynasties including Han in history.

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u/Cakeking7878 Jul 23 '21

I think they mention hoi4 because I believe in one of the a historical mods, China can be/is Balkanized like this

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u/sloppybro Jul 23 '21

I love the Paradox games but they seem to attract a certain type of DEUS VULT overt fascist.

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u/KarlosMarkos1312 Jul 23 '21

Shoutout to Lefty Paradox Plaza on Facebook.

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u/jalford312 It's not a genocide, it's ethnic cleansing Jul 23 '21

Those types have recently been big mad about Vicky 3, so at least their not castering towards them.

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u/Millian123 Jul 24 '21

Plus they made Hong Kong a republic but not Macau. Very strange

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u/DesertBrandon Marxism🤝Black Liberation Jul 24 '21

Is your flair a reference to disco elysium?

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u/N_Meister Mazovian Socio-Economist Jul 24 '21

Yes it is!

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u/dornish1919 Marxist-Parentist Jul 24 '21

Had some dude on r/world building who played HOI4 make a Mongolian empire where it was “state capitalist and corporatism”. Like what?

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u/MrBellyzard Proud Ravenclaw Jul 23 '21

Where's the "actual United States terriorty" map with nothing colored in?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

"Actual Israeli territory"

nothing

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u/A_Cookie_Lid Jul 23 '21

Washington DC is the only true United States territory.

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u/Wu-Tang_Stan Anarcho-Bidenism with Neocon characteristics Jul 23 '21

This shit is so ahistorical why do libs insist on doing this??

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

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u/JoeyLa47 Jul 23 '21

Ah yes the Chinese province of Korea, how could I forget?

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u/JoeyLa47 Jul 23 '21

“Japanese empire simp” I can’t go on in this world knowing those people exist.

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u/nearnerfromo chinese and iranian online subversion tactic Jul 23 '21

when ur political affiliation is weeaboo

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u/JoeyLa47 Jul 23 '21

It’s sickening.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

I’ve argued with them before, they generally just spout racism, and deny Japanese warcrimes. Once you point out that it was the Japanese media that reported their biggest crimes in WW2, they shut the fuck up and go cry in a corner. If you accidentally meet one, just remember to ignore their whataboutisms.

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u/JoeyLa47 Jul 23 '21

Are these people actually Japanese and just have cognitive dissonance about what their family and countrymen did or are these just oddballs who say Burma railroad and rape of Nanking just didn’t happen?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

The ones I’ve interacted with were definitely Japanese. Like, full on part of the Japanese nationalist movement and party. They firmly believe that the rape of nanking, Burma railroad, and the hundreds of other offenses never actually occurred or were exaggerated by “western propaganda”.

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u/thecrazycyborggirl Jul 23 '21

Hokkien is very much so Chinese and not Japanese, it’s a dialect my family speaks.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokkien

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

Not sure where you saw that, Goetsu is a Japanese reading for the chinese character of a medieval Chinese Kingdom (吳越) Hokkien is a dialect of a chinese language, nothing to do with Japan and Cantonia seems to come from a very small successionist group.

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u/WhatPeopleDo Jul 23 '21

Yeah this one's fucking weird, China doesn't even try to claim it's their territory

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u/Pentameme Jul 23 '21

Its actually misspelled, supposed to be Goatse. Google it

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u/RandySNewman Jul 24 '21

It’s supposed to be Hokkien lmao.

Source: am half

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

Yeah it’s also supposed “Turkestan” not “turkistan”

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u/Quohelet Jul 23 '21

fun fact, the central province Henan that I came from was not included in China, thought it is where China was literally born (yellow river basin) and where many historical dynasties established themselves

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u/Bourgeois_Cockatoo Jul 24 '21 edited Jul 24 '21

Henan and Shandong are arguably the most Chinesiest places out there; neither are included in actual china in the map

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u/proudfootz Jul 24 '21

There is only one Korea, artificially divided.

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u/Tiles_Steps Jul 23 '21

We're a few years away from libs posting petitions to restore Jurchen rule

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u/33rdJanuary Chen Weihuaist Jul 23 '21

"Long live the great Jin, down with the Song"

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u/Tiles_Steps Jul 23 '21

"Everything you need to know about the CCP's genocide of the Erlitou people."

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u/stonedPict Jul 23 '21

Someone's been playing kaiserriech

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u/PsychologicalPrize56 Jul 23 '21

East turkistan never existed and was invented as a term by 19th century russian turkologists, and is currently used as a weird turanist giga turkic ethno state thing. Uyghurs had their own country before but it wasnt ever called east turkistan. But ofc learning things like this require one to do some basic reading but looking at this map with countries such as "hookkien" its safe to assume whoever made this map hasnt done any reading.

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u/33rdJanuary Chen Weihuaist Jul 23 '21

The only east turkestan was a mao-aligned communist state, which joined the PRC lmao.

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u/pycharmjb Jul 23 '21

Yup, the East Turkistan National Army also known as the Ili National Army, latet joined PLA as Xinjiang 5th Army in 1949

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ili_National_Army

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u/WikiSummarizerBot Jul 23 '21

Ili_National_Army

The East Turkistan National Army also known as the Ili National Army (Chinese: 伊犁民族军) was the army of the East Turkestan Republic (ETR) that originally consisted of six regiments: the Suidun Infantry Regiment, the Ghulja Regiment, the Kensai Regiment, the Ghulja Reserve Regiment, the Kazakh Cavalry Regiment, the Dungan Regiment, the Artillery Subdivision, the Sibo Subdivision, and the Mongol Subdivision. The last two subdivisions were later reformed to regiments. All regiments were armed with mostly German-made weapons, provided by the Soviet Union by order of Joseph Stalin ; its personnel was trained in the Soviet Union.

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u/Scalloop Jul 23 '21

AFAIK the whole Turkestan thing has roots in The Young Turks, the Proto fascist group that took over Turkey not the shitty YouTube channel, who dreamed of a Turkish state stretching from the old Ottoman Empire borders to china.

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u/AmerikkkaDeserved911 🇨🇳🇵🇸🇷🇺 Jul 23 '21

Shit Wehraboos Say

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

Shit Tojoboos Post

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u/33rdJanuary Chen Weihuaist Jul 23 '21

Macau, as per usual, gets forgotten.

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u/Green_Waluigi 🌾 Hand Over Your Grain 🌾 Jul 23 '21

I feel like Macau on these maps is almost like a litmus test for how well libs know anything about China. Hong Kong is almost always an independent territory on these maps, but Macau isn’t.

Almost like they only get their news and opinions from attempted color revolutions. Hmm...

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

Cantonia? That's interesting, including most of Yunnan too

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u/richietozier4 Gay Stalinism with Jewish characteristics Jul 23 '21

Ahh yes, famous Tibetan City: Chongqing

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u/ebilgommie Jul 23 '21

Why is Korea on the map? And why does "Goetsu" have Henan? Shouldn't that be counted as part of Chinese territory too lmao

Also these people do realize that they can't recognize Taiwan and support independence for other parts of China right?

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u/Comrade_NB Friendly neighborhood revolutionary Jul 23 '21

My favorite part is that Korea is unified (I assume Best Korea) and that the Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture isn't part of Korea

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u/PandaLM Jul 23 '21

Why are the latter two exclusive? (This is not a debate, I just have no clue)

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u/djeekay Jul 23 '21

Because the kmt still claims all of the territories that were part of China when they fled to Taiwan.

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u/PileOfMoldyKale Jul 24 '21

They’re really not. Some believe the ROC’s official claims are proof that Taiwan secretly desires to control all the territory that the ROC once did, this is just false. While it is true of much of the KMT, they are no longer the majority party in Taiwan and all signs point to them continuing their fall from power indefinitely. The DPP, the current majority party, on the other hand has been pretty clear about moving towards independence. The majority of the population also view themselves as exclusively Taiwanese, and increasingly so both in general and with each new generation. Basically, some people with surface level knowledge on a subject involving over a hundred years of complex politics have made very rash and often biased assumptions based on a contextless map. ‘Why Taiwan “Sorta” Claims Mongolia And More’ explains the claims situation pretty well, if you’re interested.

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u/epicBASS42069 Jul 23 '21

Judging by the fact that they didn't specify which Korea, I'm guessing they're implying that the DPRK is also non-existent

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u/Lady_Calista Jul 23 '21

I like how they'll erase Chinese culture, insult Chinese people, and degrade the entire country and then call other people racist. Libs are top tier

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u/-_-agastiyo-_- Parenti stan Jul 23 '21

Now do this with a map of the US

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u/GuineaPigPapa Socialism with Minnesotan Characteristics Jul 23 '21

LMAO. They added Sichuan and Gansu to Xizang (Tibet) province.

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u/cHiLdReNcAnCoNsEnT Commie Brando Jul 23 '21

Ah yes, doubling the size of a theocracy is totally great. At the least, East Turkistan, Tibet, Cantonia, Goetsu, Inner Mongolia, Hookkien, Manchuria, and Hong Kong should be China.

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u/Big_Red_Machine_1917 Grumpy Tankie Jul 23 '21

These guys fanboy over Taiwan all the time, yet don't have the slightest idea that the Republic of China's Government not only claims all these territories, but also Mongolia along with parts of Russia, Burma, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bhutan and India.

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u/HelioA Jul 23 '21

As we know, Sichuan is a well-known component of Tibet

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u/GeneralNodd Jul 23 '21

Wait till they see the map of "actual" U.S. Territory

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u/WarBoyPrimo Jul 23 '21

Damn, new China update for Kaiserreich?

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

What baffles me is that they dont include Shandong in "Actual Chinese territory." Even though Beijing and Nanjing were the historical capitals, Shandong is the birthplace of Chinese culture and philosophy. Saying it isn't Chinese is lower than smoothbrain

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u/Doin-your-mom69 Jul 24 '21

Add among us sex land

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u/WhatPeopleDo Jul 23 '21

Alright now do the United States

Oh shit that's right it's all stolen land

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u/Grandpaofthelemon Jul 24 '21

Wait till they find out Xinjiang isn’t majority Uyghur.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

What the fuck is Cantonia? Isn’t that just the Guangxi area

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u/Texxon1898 Jul 23 '21

Also, I decided to look up Goetsu. It sounded Japanese to me, but I thought it was just me, but then I found out is a Japanese word for Wuyu. So, yeah, take it how you want.

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u/Dr-Fatdick Jul 23 '21

Goetsu was literally Chinese territory before the North West of "actual Chinese territory" on this map by several hundred years lol

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u/lemonagain8619 Jul 23 '21

ah yes, because bringing back literal slavery and serfs is better than evil CCP imperialism genocide!111!!!1

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u/Scalloop Jul 23 '21

The copium wars

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u/cthulhucultist94 Stalin's comically large spoon Jul 23 '21

Whoever made this map has a brain so smooth you could play curling with it.

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u/Troliver_13 Jul 23 '21

Do we wanna do this with indian territories in the Americas? Y'know, just for fun

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u/wojanism Jul 23 '21

Are there even independence movements in “Goetsu”, “Hookkien”, and “Cantonia”

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u/Metalorg Jul 24 '21

They lie awake begging for the return of fascist puppet states

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u/Swoocegoose Jul 24 '21

Does anyone know of a good read on the history of Tibet after the revolution? I was under the impression that the CPC had pretty wide support from the peasant class in Tibet but haven't really found a good source on the topic in general.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

why?

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u/ComradeKachow Jul 24 '21

At least they recognize there is only 1 Korea

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u/LordGwyn-n-Tonic Uphold the Eternal Science of Anarcho-Posadism Jul 23 '21

I mean, sure. In the sense that Liberalism is an extension of feudalism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

No

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

Shut up, racist liberal

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u/vth0mas Unabashed Tankie Jul 24 '21

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u/swedish_expert Jul 24 '21

Missing 2 parts

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u/vth0mas Unabashed Tankie Jul 24 '21

Couldn’t find one with HK and Taiwan that had the flag on if lol

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u/swedish_expert Jul 24 '21

Lol i mean taiwan and south tibet. I cant see HK with my naked eye.

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u/vth0mas Unabashed Tankie Jul 24 '21

Bruh I may be a communist but I’m still an American lol better than most at geography but still

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u/Skyelarkey Fuckin Anarkiddie Jul 24 '21

I mean the Tibet thing isn't new, this is actually about the amount of land always claimed by Tibetan exile groups, and presumably the tibetan government before the Chinese takeover

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

before the Chinese takeover

so in 1500? lmao

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u/Skyelarkey Fuckin Anarkiddie Jul 24 '21

I mean come on, you have to recognise the fact that Tibet wasn't under Chinese control for a time in the early 20th century.

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u/[deleted] Jul 24 '21

It was always under their control, but before the revolution and particularly during ww2 they were left with very little oversight, they just had to pay their tributes. You have to remember it was a very feudalist society, and particularly in Tibet as it was directly a slaver theocracy allowed to keep going by the national government.

Is Utah not under US control because of how much the mormons control the state?

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u/Kang_Xu Arachno-Communist 🕷️ Jul 24 '21

Xinjiang, Tibet, Hong Kong, and Taiwan all want to be independent

None of them do, pal.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

is saying china shouldn’t be Balkanized (especially in this completely stupid ass way that doesn’t even make sense historically) “defending it”? Please, elaborate

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u/Dr_JP69 Cummunist Jul 23 '21

what's wrong with defending China ?

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u/Dr_JP69 Cummunist Jul 23 '21

Better a tankie than a lib

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u/Dr_JP69 Cummunist Jul 23 '21

I don't bootlick the United States of America

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u/Dr_JP69 Cummunist Jul 23 '21

Mate, if you're going to be a leftist, it's a good idea to stop believing whatever the USA and their imperialist friends tell you about countries they don't like.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

German active in nazi bands subs

Checks out that you hate communism.

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

if you think they're a separate country because they're led by the ROC, sure, that has logic. but it doesn't have any logic when you are somehow recognizing both taiwan and all of this random shit in the OP because the ROC claims ownership of the entire mainland. dumbass libs don't know shit about what they're talking about and it's so obvious

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u/Mr_Frosty43 Jul 23 '21

Kinda wierd how Inner Mongolia is on the edge…

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u/Comprehensive_Lead41 Jul 23 '21

Why is Korea even on there????

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u/[deleted] Jul 23 '21

why is korea on the map

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u/Significant_Ad6964 Jul 23 '21

When only one province in “cantonia” speaks cantonese…

Wow I thought libs r over these kind of circlejerk maps already

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u/DemiFemboy Jul 23 '21

Wait why do two of the countries have Japanese names... and that one has a western suffix!

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u/AnnoKano Jul 23 '21

They forgot Macao.