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[–] [email protected] 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

any imperialist* state born after 1948 can’t be good… all they know is colonize, steal they land , genocide, be zionist , eat hot chip & lie

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Modern China won its revolution in 1949.

Also Palau gained independence from the USA in 1962.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago

gonna be honest I didn't put that much thought into this shitpost. maybe "imperialist state" instead of just state would make it work better

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Socialist Cuba was founded in the 50s

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay maybe there's at least one exception.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

heart-sickle

Also the PRC was technically founded in 49, but you can sort of say that it was functionally founded in like 47, when the KMT started establishing their settler-colonial shoe factory on Formosa.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I would argue the PRC was a continuation of Chinese statehood making this whole point moot

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

the states born before then were doin that too!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The modern colony of Israel was founded in 1917

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That's just when the British and French took the land from the Ottomans. It didn't formally become the ethnonationalist Zionist project until 1948.

Although there were ancient varying Kingdoms of Israel in the Bronze and Iron ages in the Levant, they have basically nothing in common with the current settler colony other than the name.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It didn't formally become the ethnonationalist Zionist project until 1948

nah I feel like that started earlier too.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

iirc the israeli colonial project started in the late 19th

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

Someone more knowledgeable feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but it's my understanding that Israel wasn't formally a state until 1948.