[OFF TOPIC] Politics Thread

[Dolby 754]

19 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Good moment to point people's attention to the old, original Khmer empire (the one that brought forth stuff like Angkor Wat). Super interesting, Fall of Civilizations podcast has a very nice episode about it and I'm sure others do as well. 

Seems interesting. Now following the pod and plan to give it a listen soon. 

[heywoodu 16,004]

Since Russia organizes a referendum outside of Russia, we can organize a referendum inside of Russia

 

[Shravan Kumar 109]

21 hours ago, heywoodu said:

Good moment to point people's attention to the old, original Khmer empire (the one that brought forth stuff like Angkor Wat). Super interesting, Fall of Civilizations podcast has a very nice episode about it and I'm sure others do as well. 

Yeah good one. Thanks for the info. 

[Vic Liu 1,691]

56 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

Since Russia organizes a referendum outside of Russia, we can organize a referendum inside of Russia

 

We should organize a referendum on Far East of Russia which is occupied from China 150 years ago and ask those who are forced to migrate and settled inside China for generations to vote.

[Noorderling29 187]

Referendum in Tibet and Hong Kong?

[Vic Liu 1,691]

1 minute ago, Noorderling29 said:

Referendum in Tibet and Hong Kong?

What I imply is that the world is not functioning by idealism but power and strength. Otherwise we could see 1800+ countries.

[hckošice 15,525]

somehow familiar statue in the voting station in Luhansk

 

[heywoodu 16,004]

5 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

What I imply is that the world is not functioning by idealism but power and strength. Otherwise we could see 1800+ countries.

And of course the point in the video was to show what kind of bullshit it is to first attack region X of another country, then drive out everyone except for your own 'group', then ask them if they want region X to become part of your country.

 

It's not even Russia to begin with, but Russia is (basically) holding a referendum there. It is beyond absurd in a situation that, thanks to Russia, is already beyond absurd to begin with.

Edited September 23, 2022 by heywoodu

[Vic Liu 1,691]

7 minutes ago, heywoodu said:

And of course the point in the video was to show what kind of bullshit it is to first attack region X of another country, then drive out everyone except for your own 'group', then ask them if they want region X to become part of your country.

 

It's not even Russia to begin with, but Russia is (basically) holding a referendum there.

We all know it's just a show. If referendum counts(for Russia) then why bother to make nuclear bombs. Every government just want to legitimate its moves no matter how naive it seems for outsiders. Chinese will not recognize those parts as Russian territory anyway.

Edited September 23, 2022 by Vic Liu

[hckošice 15,525]

5 minutes ago, Vic Liu said:

We all know it's just a show. If referendum counts(for Russia) then why bother to make nuclear bombs. Every government just want to legitimate its moves no matter how naive it seems for outsiders. Chinese will not recognize those parts as Russian territory anyway.

Yeah apparently except Putin´s regime only Syria reported possible acceptance of this masquerade, if true, than it will be 2 nations which can be actually called a plural