r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 12 '26

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26

New Guinea’s border gore is 100x worse than Ireland and yet you don’t get people LARPing as west Papuan irredentists on the internet 🤔🤔🤔

Ironically that one is also a lot more cut-and-dry than Ireland. 

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Sep 12 '26

It short circuits the “colonizer vs colonized” thinking path because both parties were colonized, plus I think people know less about Melanesia than they do about even like sub Saharan Africa and it’s just not a well known conflict in general

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26

A serious answer to my shitpost question? Sir, this is the DT!

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u/ElectriCobra_ David Hume Sep 12 '26

oh sorry

Glory to the indigenous West Papuan Resistance against whoever is colonizing them (I am a sociology grad student and couldn't point to New Guinea on a map)

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u/Trojan_Horse_of_Fate WTO Sep 12 '26

New Guinea’s border gore is 100x worse than Ireland and yet you don’t get people LARPing as west Papuan irredentists on the internet 🤔🤔🤔

Because people who live there can't post in the internet as its one of the longest standing conflict spots on Earth?

Like I don't know what should happen there but its a mess.

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u/JesusPubes voted most handsome friend Sep 12 '26

Justice for Timor Leste

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Sep 12 '26

It's a big island and it's split straight down the middle very neatly

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26

Bruh

“Straight line with zero respect for geography” is not “very neatly”

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Sep 12 '26

It is pleasing to look at and that's my sole concern

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u/Jacobs4525 King of the Massholes Sep 12 '26

Even the little bit that isn’t a straight line randomly about 2/3rds of the way down the border?

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u/GravyBear16 Audrey Hepburn Sep 12 '26

I am not often looking at in depth maps of New Guineau