• SuperZutsuki [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      I fucking hope so. Get it over with and then maybe China can come in and modernize my region. I want HSR between the major cities around here so I can visit friends more and local trains so I don’t have to fucking drive. Each city has middling transit of its own and there is technically a rail line connecting them but it’s abysmally slow (worse than driving) and only has 2 departures per day. Meanwhile, tier three cities in China are getting like a hundreds kms of rail built in under 5 years xi-plz

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        If you want to will this into reality, it is critical that you educate yourself and those around you about the indigenous history of your land, lest you simply reproduce a settler-colonial entity (but smaller?)

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          Unfortunately balkanization would most likely end up with more settler colonial countries because respecting the treaties means that the native Americans are getting a lot more land than they’ve been getting.

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            Yeah that’s why I’m explicitly directing our comrades here to actively work against that. If it were to happen (it won’t, but it’s more fun to act like we live in the good timeline (:bloomer:)), we finally have a shot at being a part of a decolonial movement, but that work starts decades in advance (now!).